About Us

 

Why are we  doing this?

 

  1. (1)We love to travel.  Having met on a camping trip in Iceland 32 years ago, it defines our relationship.

  2. (2)The time is ripe. With Bernd just retired and both of us in good-health, we had come to the conclusion: if not now, when?

  3. (3)Our children have also moved on.  Our son Sergio is a US Marine and lives in Okinawa, Japan.  Elsita, our daughter, will soon start graduate studies in Desert Ecology in Israel.  Our local family -- the 14 Namibian students we have helped support on and off for the past 6 years (see below) -- have mostly graduated from the University or soon will...

  4. (4)It’s good transition.  After living for 13 years in Namibia, we are thinking of returning to the USA for our “next phase of life.”  This may well be our circuitous route home.

Name: Bernd Kiekebusch

Born: Würzburg, Germany

Profession:  mathematician, lecturer, computer scientist


Name: Lucy Y. Steinitz

Born: New York City, USA

Profession: development worker, writer, social worker

           

Our children:

Sergio, as a US Marine, now in Japan


Elsita (in Central America, 2009)



Lifetime highlights:

  1. 1.Met in Iceland, 1978

  2. 2.Married in New York, 1980

  3. 3.Children: Elsita in 1988 and Sergio in 1988 from Guatemala

  4. 4.Lived in Maryland for 17 years (but loved West Virginia more)

  5. 5.Moved to Namibia in 1997 and lived there for 13 years

  6. 6.Traveling around the world: 2010-2011 (7 continents)

  7. 7.What next? don’t know yet!



See our Namibia blog:

http://namibiadiaries.blogspot.com