14-09-07: Last Day!!
We chose to spend our last day doing something a little different. We went on a zipline trek, which involved five cables suspended between trees, hundreds of feet above the Earth, and whizzing along them by a harness. Wonderful fun!! I went upside-down on for the last one, which was a very crazy […]
11-09-07: G’day From WA (Washington, That Is!)
The bus trip to Seattle was pretty nondescript. We woke early, spelt a little on the bus. The border crossing was way tamer than we thought it would be – the guards were friendly enough (although being fingerprinted was a novelty).
Seattle itself is a really lovely city – very […]
06-09-07/07-09-07: Bussing It
We spent two days travelling from Banff to Vancouver, with a one night stopover in Kelowna. The first bus was so full, we didn’t get to sit together, but thankfully that didn’t happen again. Sadly, that is the only thing of interest that happened on the buses.
Kelowna was like Osborne Park, or Cannington […]
02-09-07: En Route to Banff, 8:02am
Despite the weirdness of day One, our taxi driver Sunday morning was great! He studied in Perth at Bentley TAFE! Weeny little world, ain’t it?
For breakfast I made fresh waffles, but had to eat them in the taxi because our bus to Banff was to leave Calgary City Greyhound shelter […]
01-09-07: Calgary, Land of Gallon Hats, Scary Taxi Men & Emo Kids
So. We survived a 9-hour flight with no in-flight entertainment to arrive in…Perth. This wasn’t immediately apparent, although we did feel somewhat suspicious as we flew into Calgary over a flat wasteland of brown industrialism. Where were the trees? The mountains? The moose??
Our […]
This heading is misleading. There are no other rhyming cities we’ve been to recently unfortunately. However, on the weekend of the 23/24 September, I went to York for a work training weekend. I bunked off Saturday night and met James in York city for the night, and then we spent Sunday wandering the streets .
The […]
The weekend just past was a marvellous long weekend, with perfect weather for relative hunting (hounds and rifles optional). I took James to meet my family in Newcastle. I think it’s a loose connection genetically, but it’s definitely a close connection emotionally, starring my Uncle Peter as the grandfather we never had . At 85, […]
And here is the only European diary entry I had time to write. I found key notes at the bottom of these entry, to remind myself of what I needed to write about. If anybody finds these notes prompt questions, feel free to ask why I felt it important enough to make a note of, […]
I have just realised that there are a couple of journal entries I haven’t posted from our travels. This is entry one, a diatribe on the stupidity of having to rent blankets in Malaysian hostels. Enjoy.
Tuesday, 24th January, Traveller’s Lodge Guesthouse, Melaka, 11:10pm
James and I have just done a little list of how many hotels […]
Saturday, 22nd January, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY!
Monday, 23rd January, Mizam Guest House, Teluk Nipah, Palau Pangkor, Malaysia, 10:13am
It feels like, destitute, we’re stranded on a desert island. James has left for provisions and to find help, while I stay behind at our camp, fending off monkeys and hoping for his safe return. This is only half […]