27 May 2011 Yallingup to Nannup I have been poisoned by a one-pot goulash dinner. At least I am convinced that is what kept me up all night. Not the soothing sounds of the crashing surf outside the campervan or the sweet silence of the clear starry sky. Those would have been better reasons for …
26 May 2011 Perth to Yallingup From giant pelican to pudgy black Lab, meet Roxy. Roxy is hanging out with us here at the Yallingup beach as we watch sunset and surfers. One of those surfers out there must belong to Roxy, for not only is her beachside gaze fixed out to sea, but each …
25 May 2011 Perth He’s huge. If he were a dog he’d be a Great Dane. We’re sharing this pier south of Perth with him, this enormous pelican. Actually, I think it would be more accurate to say that he’s sharing his pier with us. It’s nearly dusk and we are dragging, having risen at …
18 to 24 May 2011 We’re down to five bags and two backpacks. The sum total of what we will return to Seattle with come mid-June. Well, that’s if you don’t count the shipment that’s on a container boat right now, hopefully not more than a nautical mile or two from docking in Los Angeles. …
14 April 2011 Time to fly as, once again, time has been flying by here in Sydney while we’ve been unpacking and re-packing our bags. Today’s destination: Singapore. Tomorrow’s: Hanoi, Vietnam. In preparation for our trip, we’ve been running lots of errands. There was the trip to the chemist to make sure our insides and …
11 Mar 2011 Miss Tilly. We might just have to sneak her back to the States yet.
10 Mar 2011 479. A prime number. I’m not a big fan of prime numbers, preferring palindromes myself. I like the effortless balance of a palindrome. The same picture moving forward as moving back. I find them soothing in a Lost sort of way, a signal that wherever I am when that palindromic number or …
09 Mar 2011 Needles. Not pine, pins and, nor knitting. The real deal pokey ones that the doctor sticks in your arm. Five of them, to be exact. Two for me and three for Gina. It seems that traveling to Vietnam dictates a bit of preventative vaccinating, namely Hepatitis A, Typhoid, and a Tetanus booster …
27 Feb to 08 Mar 2011 Command Central. Also known as Limpin’ Leigh’s house. This is where we’ve been holed-up of late, feverishly contriving and devising what it is we shall do next. It’s like dueling banjos, me on the loaner Macintosh and Gina sitting directly across, hammering away on our travel Dell. Every now …
01 March 2011 Well that didn’t work. Us venturing out in the middle of the day, i.e., middle of the 90 degree (F) sticky heat, to cancel our mailbox at Bondi Beach. It worked, we got it canceled, but we complained with every step there and back how hot we were. I know, I know, …