It’s now only 9 weeks or so ’till Thanksgiving here, so I’m starting to think about when at least I’ll head on back to Australia. On a whim I happened to check Qantas’ flights for Thanksgiving and over Christmas. Cost for Thanksgiving, around $1200US. I was actually budgeting about $1800 in my head based on… Read more
On Monday I had the great privilege of waking up at 6:30 am to catch my 9am flight to Atlanta, Georgia. Which is to say, my 9am flight to Phoenix, Arizona, and then to Atlanta. Hooray for the crazy U.S. airline industry. :/ It’s threeish hours time difference from here to there, plus five hours… Read more
I quite wanted to make good use of the long weekend (albeit 3 days only) here to get out and travel a bit, but I never really committed to anything early enough to actually organise it… but I was still determined to do something (ergo the bike riding on Saturday). Today, on the suggestion of… Read more
Yesterday I drove up to Muir Woods. It was just an excuse to get out in my new car and celebrate my new range of freedom, but I’d nonetheless heard a lot of good things about the woods. We’d originally intended on riding there a few weeks back when we went over to Sausalito, but… Read more
I’ve finally finished uploading all my New Zealand photos. All 1,970 of them. I’m working on organising them into some sort of hierarchy or whatever, but they’re all ready for perusal right now. I was up until 2am last night working on the last few, the ones from the plane flight around Mount Cook. Eventually,… Read more
On Saturday Mike & I went up to SF to make use of the voucher booklets he’d picked up while his parents were in town last week, and hadn’t finished. They gave you free public transport within the city and free entry to a lot of the museums and whatnot. Our original plan was to… Read more
Went through more of my New Zealand photos – now only 480 to go. Also, I seem to have picked up some annoying throat infection as of yesterdayish… my tonsils don’t look too bad, though, so [hopefully] it’s just some passing thing.