Posted in Air Travel, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
I usually do not get jet lag very badly. This time, however, it has been brutal: I’ve not been able to fall asleep until after 4AM each of the last three nights. Tonight, I’ll settle for 1AM!
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Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve actually made it to page 2 for the generic search phrase “australian vacation” without any other qualifiers, and with hardly any links to the site from elsewhere. I’ve been getting 4-5 random visitors per day from various search terms. Welcome!
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Posted in Elsewhere, Photography, Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
More photos, these are of the Great Ocean Road. Click the link to get to shutterfly, and there’s an option for a slideshow.
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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 Blogging, Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
For some of you using Internet Explorer with lower screen resolutions, the various links that are supposed to be at the right side of the screen are showing up at the very bottom of the page instead. I’m not sure why it’s happening; it’s happening on my laptop but it wasn’t when I was using […]
Posted in Air Travel, Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2008 No Comments »
The snowstorm was pretty harsh last night, and it was right around 6:30pm. Last night’s version of my flight left 3 hours late, but the flight to get to Sydney via San Francisco left on time. What a crapshoot. Tonight’s flight is already half an hour late.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2007 No Comments »
While I’ve spent most of the summer and early fall procrastinating about trip blogging, I did spend some time on the blog this spring. Those posts have fallen to the back page, so I’ll link to a few of them here:
Spending 28 hours in coach is not an option
Adjusting to Jet Lag
Travel with a Laptop
Travel […]
Posted in Food and Drink, Melbourne, Sightseeing, Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’m going to miss it as it’s only on Wednesday nights and I won’t get into Melbourne in time, but the Suzuki Night Market in Melbourne at the Queen Victoria Market looks absolutely astounding. Thanks to happy_stomach on my favorite Chicago food forum, who is in the process of writing a great log of dining […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
January 1 weather forecasts: Chicago, 30% chance of sleet, 32/25. Sydney, scattered clouds, 82/67.
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Posted in Blogroll, Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Over the last six months, about 50 people submitted requests to join my Bumpzee group. Most of them were spam, but about a quarter were solid travellers, and a few more were single-region blogs written by somebody living there. I’ve approved about 20 total, and they can be found by following this link.
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