Posted in Photography on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
My new toy arrived yesterday. I bought an Amazon gift card from with all the loose change I’d collected in the fourth quarter of 2007, and used some of it to order Adobe Photoshop Elements on Sunday. For a few years, I was using a Corel package that came with the desktop before [...]
Posted in Logistics, Now that I know, Sightseeing, Uluru on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve been thinking about the issues surrounding the monopoly at Ayers Rock Resort, and how I’d do Uluru (photos) differently next time. Because the person I called at Ayers Rock Resort was great about changing my stay without penalty with one day’s notice due to my sinus infection, I really did not have much [...]
Posted in Now that I know, Thinking Aloud on Jan 29th, 2008 3 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 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 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 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 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 Photography, Sydney on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Pretty much the final batch of photos, the Opera House, Zoo, and Surry Hills. Click here for the link to Shutterfly.
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Posted in Food and Drink, Logistics, Sydney on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
As I write this, it’s 11:10AM in Sydney. In an hour, the shuttle service will arrive to take me to the airport, where I’ll hang around for a couple of hours before getting on the flight to Sydney. It’s been a great trip (except for the getting sick part), but it’s time to start getting [...]
Posted in Food and Drink, Sightseeing, Sydney, Walks on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
And finally, we arrived at the last night. Not sadly, it’s time to go home. But I wanted the last night to be a time of reflection before getting back to the chaos. When I toured Europe alone for a similar length of time in 1993, I spent most of the final [...]
