25 to 27 July 2011 No sooner had Gina said “It’s not very nice out for my birthday”, after awaking to grey skies this past Monday morning, than a peal of thunder cracked through. Thunder? In Seattle in July? This is quite unusual. However, it did give her an excuse to turn on the TV …
22 July 2011 As the police officer approached our picnic table, we acted as though we were 17 year olds with something to hide, each of us grabbing our empty wine glasses and holding them beneath the table. I don’t know why we did this. It wasn’t as though he hadn’t seen us from his …
20 July 2011 Seattle I was thinking that our time back home has been moving rather fast, it being hard to keep up with the To Do Lists of this partial re-entry, the lists that undoubtedly are thought by some to be Whatever Lists, in that vein of Whatever, You People Who Aren’t Working, but …
2 July 2011 Seattle My left scapula is tender and the same can be said for my hamstring, thanks to a morning of rolling paint on the walls of our nearly empty condominium. It’s a good thing we had help from a friend of a friend for the cut work or I undoubtedly wouldn’t be …
26 June 2011 We’re here. Back in Seattle with a To Do list longer than our flight home. Stay tuned for Stage 1 Re-Entry blogging. Right now, I have an aerobed to inflate.
10 to 14 June 2011 Waikiki I couldn’t figure out why all those Australians were hootin’ and hollerin’ so much over an NBA Finals game until I remembered that we weren’t in Australia anymore and those Australians were actually Americans. Such has been the feeling over the past few days in Hawaii, stopping at times …
10 June 2011 At the same time that I am writing this we’ll be touching down in Honolulu, even though we don’t leave Sydney for another 10 hours. Time travel at its finest, getting that day back we lost 15 months ago. We might not do much more with it than nap and drink a …
04 to 07 June 2011 Porongurup to Bridgetown to Fremantle to Perth Gina has become a reader. There are campground book exchange paperbacks littered about the campervan. Typically these would be mine, or they wouldn’t exist at all as someone would insist that I get my books from the library which I think is a …
03 June 2011 Stirling Range to Porongurup Bluff Knoll and Castle Rock Hikes I’ve pretty much determined that should I find myself at the Grand Canyon, I will not then find myself on that Skywalk that goes out over it, even if it’s an open-free-to-the-public-day and there are complimentary tacos being served out in the …
02 June 2011 Albany to Stirling Range It’s the second day of winter here in Australia and the weather is intent on proving it. Mother Nature has been pelting us with rain showers for the past two days and doesn’t appear to be at all inclined to stop. It’s put a bit of a damper …