Overnight to Paris with Air Canada
Emails, phone calls and a defective driver’s seat belt add to the overall last minute panic as we finish a frantic pack and load the newly-returned body shopped car (someone went through a red light and right into John...
Good Friends in Laguna Niquel
We arrive early afternoon to our good friend Bill and Bruce’s house in Laguna Niguel with a fabulous view out to the ocean…still chilly by California standards and we must admit, by ours, too! A simple supper and lots of catch up...
Hurtling Towards the Date Line: LA to Auckland, New Zealand
We started toward the airport today about 8:30 a.m. for a 1:35 p.m. flight. With 2 in the car, we got to use the carpool lane on the highways, which helped considerably. Got to the airport a bit earlier than anticipated, checked...
First Mornings: Auckland, New Zealand
Latitude: S36° Longitude: E174° Full Moon. We got to bed at about 2:30 a.m. Auckland time (5:30 a.m. L.A. time) and we’re up about 8:30 to seek out coffee and breakfast, feeling that hazy, thumping middle of the forehead...
Farewell to New Zealand
We drive into Auckland from Doubtless Bay. It takes two cars to handle the overflow of luggage that we have brought with us (not to mention that there are six people making the journey). We take everyone out for dinner to...
Day One: Exploring Sydney, Australia
S33° E151° We get up and start walking in Sydney – no plan, just wherever we end up. It is a beautiful, clear sunny day and we wander through Hyde Park, a glorious green space in the middle of Sydney, through what seems to be...
Day Two: Exploring Darling Harbour.
Downstairs with coffee and the papers by 8:20, we are up early today for breakfast…well, relatively early for the new us. The morning bustle on Oxford Street is persistent. We are organizing ourselves for a stroll and a wander:...
Suffering ‘Heavy Baggage Jokes’ Enroute to Adelaide, Australia
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Welcome to Adelaide! Grumble, Grumble.
We have arrived in Adelaide too early for the Adelaide Festival, which looks like it will be amazing (this is the Festival State, after all, as all the licence plates all tell us), but the Tour Down Under is underway. This is a...
Two Eloises
We take today as a day off. Since Sunday last week, we have been on the move non-stop. As good North Americans, we aren’t used to walking long distances. And walking is what we’ve done since leaving Doubtless Bay. Our hips and...