Posted in Thinking Aloud on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I certainly did not take a complete break from the internet while I was in Australia. For one thing, I wrote over 50 entries in this blog. I used Skype to call home on days where I had purchased in-room internet access, I checked my personal email, I bought airplane tickets online, I […]
Posted in Now that I know, Thinking Aloud on Jan 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ll start recapping with the negatives, as while they were few and generally more of annoyance than anything, they come to mind quickly:
Australian Diet Coke tastes lousy. Fortunately, I do not mind Coke Zero.
I never got to try a chiko roll; whenever I found one at a store, it looked like it had been sitting […]
Posted in Logistics, Thinking Aloud on Jan 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I’m shopping for souvenirs at the Freycinet National Park gift shop. I’m not buying much because my big suitcase is back in Melbourne and I’m extremely pressed for space in my small bag and backpack due to Virgin Blue’s weight limits.
I find a book that I really liked: a pictorial […]
Posted in Air Travel, Thinking Aloud on Jan 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
Greetings from the Red Carpet Club at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight home was about 90 minutes shorter, and it seemed to go by much faster. The food was worse than usual, and I still can’t find a comfortable way to sleep fully reclined in United’s business class seats - compared to American’s where […]
Posted in Thinking Aloud on Jan 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
On the train back from Mornington this afternoon, I read an article about traffic accidents on the Great Ocean Road. It turns out that 12% of the drivers involved in accidents are visiting from another country. Sounds awful, right? But what they didn’t say was what percentage of miles driven on that highway are from […]
Posted in Thinking Aloud on Jan 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
Anybody have specific questions about things I might be forgetting to mention? (No work questions allowed!!) If so, leave it in a comment, and I’ll try to answer them as best as I can.
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Posted in Thinking Aloud on Jan 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’m going to make a blanket statement: Australians are friendlier than Americans.
Let me ask you a simple question… when was the last time you were in a public place and just struck up a conversation with the person next to you because they looked like they were from out of town? And for those of […]
Posted in Thinking Aloud on Jan 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
While I was in the “transit” area of the emergency room waiting for the blood tests to come back, I struck up a conversation with a very nice Filipino nurse. He has moved his family to Saudi Arabia, London, and now Sydney. We had a wide-ranging conversation about our two countries, and it really helped […]
Posted in Thinking Aloud, Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s amazing how ineffective air conditioning is here. Every time I’m in a supposedly air conditioned place, it is stuffy and hot. I don’t understand it at all.
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Posted in Sightseeing, Sydney, Thinking Aloud on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Back in this post, I outlined the current draft for the vacation. The first four and a half days are well set, because of Qantas’ schedule to Uluru. Qantas only flys Ayers Rock-Melbourne a couple of days a week, so I am flying Sydney-Ayers Rock on Saturday morning and Ayers-Rock-Melbourne on Monday […]
