Month: January 2019
I’ve seen my future
It includes swimming pool yoga to Uptown Funk, happy hour 2 for 1 pina coladas and bathing suits with long skirts that could be repurposed for use in skating competitions.
NY Staycation over – Aruba hat selection begins
My awesome Australian hat did not make it back to The States alive (it’s harder then you think!) so I am wading through some random hats I’ve purchased over the years and never got around to throwing out. Can someone explain 1) why this hat has not one but TWO zippered pockets 2) why I…
Taylor Swift was not here to welcome me back!
But I don’t care. Something much better to put me in a New York State of Mind. What? My apartment will still be there and roach infested 20 mins later and the Newark Airtrain / NJ transit combo drops you at Penn anyway and it was only like one extra down escalator away….don’t judge me…
Boarding earworm…”Back to life, Back to reality.”
What would the trip be without one more WordPress/blog technical difficulty? Literally stepping on plane for 25 hrs of travel ahead and just did some mild troubleshooting. Let’s see if this last very not important / housekeeping-ish post makes the blog before we take off. Giving it 30/70 odds. This is an update to the…
Qualifying Round not a Qualifying Experience
Couldn’t make main draw play at the Australian Open, but, we could make the qualifying rounds. YEAH! It’s basically the Grand Slam pre-tournament for players not ranked high enough to make it into the main draw automatically (just in case 2 of the 8 people who actually read this blog on an irregular basis don’t…
Great Ocean Road Tour Greatly Rushed
The one day, 13 hour bus tour is a necessary evil. You know you don’t have time for an overnight stay. And, you’d like to personally drive taking in the scenery at your own pace but, then, you ask yourself are you up to the challenge of driving on the other side of the road…
Mel-BIN
That is what I have to silently repeat to myself before I pronounce the city I am currently in so I can do so correctly. It’s kind of exhausting. But, so far, that has been the only exhausting part of Melbourne. We landed yesterday and as we followed our rather softspoken, dapper schoolteacher / artist…
Taste of Tasmania (aka Tassie)
We landed in Hobart, Tasmania around 2pm Wednesday and by the time we got to and settled in our bed and breakfast and briefly walked to and around the main waterfront area to get the lay of the land, we confronted the same “problem” I’ve encountered across the entire trip. Everything closes at 5pm. And…