Plans are afoot for me, accompanied by Laz, to cruise over to Whistler in early February. For a week or so, probably. He’s moving to Canada in mid-January sometime and naturally wants to make good use of the winter straight away, especially given he’s never been skiing or snowboarding before. Should be interesting. :) I’ve… Read more
I wandered up into S.F. to the Academy of Sciences [Museum] yesterday. It’s been in the news lately because it’s either new or refurbished, but in any case they have a shiny new planetarium which is apparently the shizit. It seemed a better way to spend a Saturday, in any case, than sitting at home.… Read more
24th of March, 2007[written two days later] Back on the bus for another morning. Our road time today is about five hours, of which we’ve covered about half as I write, heading to Wellington from Taupo. We’ve just stopped at some cafe in the middle of nowhere, called Flat Hills, for 45 minutes. It’s It’s… Read more
I apologise that these are out of order. And they may be revised later, when I discover further back-references. In hindsight I wrote quite a lot, and I’m too lazy and pressed for time currently to properly sort it all out by day. Deciding to present it this way was probably a dumb idea to… Read more
25th of March, 2007 I’ve just arrived back from our day around Lake Taupo. Funny story, that, actually – when we left the party boat I decided to head straight back to the motel. There’d already been copious amounts of alcohol consumed, and I’d already had my bit of partying, so I figured the most… Read more
Rob poked me me earlier today with some suggestions for the infamous Cairo -> Melbourne route, which got me looking into it a bit more. Long story short, I did actually find a route, via Singapore Airlines, for something like $850. Much more reasonable. However, when I add all this up, I’m still looking at… Read more
Well, I survived Florida – or more pointedly, the getting to and from there. I’ll start with the flights, because they were about half the waking time in the three day trip, and were interesting in their ways. Our corporate travel agency hates me, this is clear. They routed me through Atlanta on the way… Read more