Thanks for visiting in 2011! Here is the 2011 annual report for my blog, prepared by WordPress.com. I will try to keep it up for 2012. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would…
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” You might want to re-read that line by G.K. Chesterton and savour it, before I try to explain myself any further. [I am going to dig deep now for a plausible post. Sometimes it is a burden to have ANY readers.]…
Countdown: 7 days… The time has come for me to do something in preparation for Christmas! So here I am – preparing for Christmas by writing a Christmas blog. Does that count? See the nice red and green font below. Fortunately or unfortunately, we don’t have any children in the family at the moment, so…
Have you seen pictures of the living bridges in Meghalaya, India? According to the information on this site, they are made from a species of India rubber tree (Ficus elastica) and are constructed over several generations. This photo is of a banyan fig (Ficus benghalensis), the national tree of India, in the Brisbane Botanic Garden. It could be up…
I posted a very similar message yesterday and managed to delete it inadvertently today. It’s a problem I have remembering how my iPhone and computer and the WordPress site all work together (or don’t). So I apologize if you are one of my thousands of subscribers (LOL) and are getting another email for virtually the…
My iPhone is an essential travel companion. I feel that I have my family and friends at my side whenever I want – without all the annoyances of their actual presence! When I’m out of the country, I need to seek out wireless internet for a fix once or twice daily, but that adds a little structure to…
Today’s post is a spontaneous outburst, unlike most of my painfully extracted posts. Fodor’s Japan (2012) states that “Karaoke is a Japanese institution whose rabid popularity cannot be understated.” What does that MEAN? That we can’t go low enough in our statement because the popularity is so infinitely low? I don’t think so! It was intended to mean…
Bendemeer Caravan/Tourist Park This a long post but just a summary of facts and figures about our accommodation in Australia (New South Wales and southern Queensland). Prices are in Australian dollars, which were about 3-8% higher than American and Canadian dollars. By the way, it should be no surprise that many of these places will not be quite…
Seeing Clarely 