Category: Travel
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Auckland, New Zealand! Waiting out the cyclone…
We landed to Auckland just before 1AM, and then navigated customs and immigration, including the bio-security screening that necessitated someone unfolding and examining our tent carefully for contamination before returning it to us. Hundreds were in line, so it took some time. At 3AM we got in a cab and suffered through our driver’s long-winded…
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Vietnam Vaccinations and a Brisbane Urban Art Walk
With our plans to go to Vietnam in April, we needed to review and get needed vaccinations well in advance of us traveling. I had some previous vaccinations from a trip to Colombia in 2009, and Chris probably had been vaccinated fully for her job as an “air hostess” (now known as a flight attendant)…
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A whole year gone! A second year begins!
On January 2, 2022, we left our house in Boulder for 5 weeks, leaving it in the good care of our friends Carolyn and Ted. Their house was incinerated in a deadly fire a few days previously, and we invited them to live in our house while we were gone. They arrived with the clothes…
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Exploring Brisbane by Ferry
Brisbane offers a convenient, inexpensive and traffic-free way to explore the town using the CITYCAT, a system of catamaran ferries that stop at 14 terminals along the river. The schedule is every 15 minutes and residents use the ferries as public transportation to get around so you see local people while riding, not just tourists.…
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Mama Mia! Happy New Year!
On the last day of 2022, we celebrated an amazing year of adventure and travel into the night. We left home on January 2 and have lived out of suitcases, bike panniers, tents and the generosity of friends and family. We rang in 2023 with hopes for another amazing year. The New Year arrives first…
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Christmas in Brisbane!
We arrived in Brisbane a week ago, and it’s been a non-stop slow-motion party of eating, drinking and talking (followed by sleeping)! Ozzies, or at least our family here, are social creatures! We’re here for a little more than 2 weeks, embracing Christmas and New Years holidays, with my birthday thrown in for good measure.…
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Last day in Singapore – the marvels
On our last day we wanted to see some of the iconic sights of Singapore, acting like tourists. We had an evening and most of the following day to explore a bit more. Our first stop in the evening was the famous Raffles Hotel, built in 1904 and named after Singapore’s founder Sir Stamford Raffles.…
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Singapore! 15 hours flying: big change of climate
We left London on an extremely grey cold wet day, with snow covering a good deal of the UK. Since our flight departed at 10PM local time, we rented the hotel room for an extra day so we had a place to hang out while waiting for our flight and as an insurance policy in…
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44 years ago, I started here
In the Fall of 1978, 44 years ago, I was living in North Hollywood, California, just beginning my career as a professional illustrator in the entertainment world after leaving art school. I had never been to Europe or the UK, and was just beginning to earn a reasonable living from art after subsisting in student…
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Cold days in London – camping in a hotel!
It’s cold here in Holland Park, just west of London! The nights are below freezing and the days barely above freezing, with hazy skies filtering whatever warmth the sun might have offered away, the chill multiplied by the damp. Snow dusts the tree limbs across the street and steam rises from mouths of people walking…