I have no idea if I will have time or capability to post
pictures this weekend, I will be a bit rushed, as it is a long flight to the
center of Australia and Back. To put it in perspective, based on my limited
understand of the area – by which I mean I have looked at a map and have a
general idea of where things are and how big the place I am visiting is – it is
a bit like being on a business trip to Tallahassee, FL, and then taking a
side-trip to Cheyenne, WY for the weekend.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Murramarang National Park (Part 5: Perfect Ending!)
This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. But all good things come to an
end, and the day we were having was no exception.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Murramarang National Park (Part 4: Perfect Seclusion!)
This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. Our last stop of the day was Depot Beach, only a mile-or-so down the beach from Pebbly Beach. We were told that this was a beach where the kangaroos came down to sun themselves in the early morning and the late afternoon.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Murramarang National Park (Part 3: Perfect Scenery!)
This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. The plan had been to head over to
Bateman’s Bay, and then turn to the right and go down the coast through the
scenic loop that included a bunch of little towns with all sorts of interesting
shops to poke through. I don’t know why, but we both decided to head straight
to the beach. What a great choice!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Murramarang National Park (Part 2: Perfect Food!)
This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. A colleague of mine and I headed
out for a day of adventure to the coast. I played the part of driver and
planner, he filled-in in the role of navigator and spotter. On the way, we
stopped for a cup of coffee and a bite to eat at an amazing little boulangerie in a town called Bungendore.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Murramarang National Park (Part 1: Perfect Weather!)
This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. I rented a car and, after taking
a day to practice and get my left-hand-lane driving skills back, I set off for
the coast on Sunday morning.
Accompanying me on this side trip was one of my colleagues here
from the London office. We loaded the car and set-out on our trip at about
half-ten which is late for me to start on a road trip, but was about perfect
for the day we had!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Plans Made II
Famous last words: ‘Never
Make Plans!’ But what if I am not the one making the plans?
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Plans Made
How many times have I got to learn the lesson? NEVER MAKE
PLANS! Perhaps I should have it tattooed onto the inside of my eye lids in fluorescent
paint so that I can see it as I sleep.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Tidbinbilla V (Aussie Action Film)
In the spirit of those puzzles you see at the movies these
days, name the Aussie Action film:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Tidbinbilla IV (Getting Home)
The trip home was much less eventful than the trip there,
but then, with no choice on road and having just been down the path a couple
hours ago, we had no real opportunity for adventure on the return trip.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Tidbinbilla III (Getting Into Trouble)
Thump - Thump
- Thump
- Thump -
Thump
“What is that drumming sound?” I asked
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Tidbinbilla II (Being There)
I must say, Tidbinbilla is far nicer (once you get there)
when the weather cooperates!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Tidbinbilla I (Getting There)
The last time I was here I showed this picture of a Kangaroo
Crossing sign. You see them everywhere over here along the roads. They are
ubiquitous and I opined in that piece that seeing them is a bit like seeing a
Deer Crossing back home. You see the signs, you occasionally see the road kill,
you rarely see the animals.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Sunday Morning
Perhaps it is a function of getting older, but going out and
to a noisy bar where there are scads of twenty-somethings over-indulging,
sloshing their drinks on each other, dancing – by which I mean falling over,
and generally making total prats of themselves, doesn’t have the allure it once
did.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – St. Patrick’s Day Down Under
It’s Saturday and the plans are all made; the day’s agenda
calls for some sightseeing, some wilderness and exercise in the fresh air, and
an evening at an Irish Pub.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Sunset
By the time we left the client yesterday, the sunset was
down to the gloaming. It was lovely to see the outskirts of Canberra stretching
up the hills to the west.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Another Busy Day
Nothing big to report today – just lots to do and things to
achieve!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Traveling Again
It takes less time to fly to Canberra than it take to get to
and from the airport for the flight. The plane was crowded, and there was a bit
of a delay as they waited for the connections to transfer, but 35 minutes after
takeoff, we landed in Canberra.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Walkabout (Part III)
What an AMAZING weekend! Lovely weather, time in a beautiful
city and time to explore it all! I have to remember to stop by the concierge
desk as I am leaving today to thank Andrew for all his advice and guidance on
putting together my itinerary!
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Walkabout (Part II)
Today the plan is to make it over across Darling Harbour to
the fish markets. According to the concierge who has been helping me with my
itinerary for the weekend, they can be interesting early in the morning as they
are setting-up for the day and having their auction for the restaurants. I also
want to walk across the Harbour Bride to Manning and climb the bridge pylon.
There is a museum there that has info about the building of the bridge which
Andrew recommended as an interesting stop.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Walkabout (Part I)
According to my watch, it is early in the afternoon. So why
is it dark outside?
Friday, March 09, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Arrival
The hotel is nice. The people are nice. The town is nice. I
am so DARN tired!
Travelogue: Australia – Sleep (?)
This is the typical mid-flight screed about how I find it
next-to-impossible to sleep on flights. What a bummer! The one time I have ever
slept on a plane was that one time my friends had me visit a quack in South
Africa that would prescribe anything to anyone.
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – No Such Day Exists…
I wish that this trip had gone forward when it was initially
scheduled. Had it, this column would be being written about the 16th
of February 2012 instead of the 08th of March! This may not seem a
big deal to you, but as that was my fiftieth birthday, it is a big deal to me!
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – Departure
It is a cold and miserable day here in Lakewood; it is cold
and we are experiencing freezing drizzle. The forecast calls for snow today if
the front that started moving through last night should finish its transit. But
by then, I should be comfortably ensconced on a plane. By Friday mid-morning,
that’s tomorrow from my perspective, I should be happily basking in the warmth
of the late summer of Australia!
Social Discourse
It is truly interesting to me that there are
actually people who are supporting the mean-spirited and unsupported personal
attack recently launched by a radio talk show host on a witness testifying on
women’s healthcare. Mr. Limbaugh issued the opinion that Ms. Fluke was a slut
and a whore. This is such a ridiculous error in logic and lapse in decorum that
I could not let it pass.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Stubborn Indecision
C’mon, people, what’re you waiting for!? I hate to say it
but this year the Republicans are out-Democrating the Democrats!
Monday, March 05, 2012
Travelogue: Australia – The Word "Go!"
I have been expecting this for a while now – It happened
this morning some time before 04:00.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Saturday, March 03, 2012
A Touchy Subject
Perhaps it is more than a semantic argument; but if so,
someone is going to have to explain it to me. I know that I have railed against
it before but I still do not understand why the phrase “Illegal Immigrant” is
considered so bad!
Friday, March 02, 2012
Thursday, March 01, 2012
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