Friday, October 28th - Departed Leeton around 10:30am and headed northeast towards Dubbo. The road was a two lane highway with a speed limit of 110 km/h with few cars on it, that went fairly straight through a savanna of eucalypts and farmland, punctuated with small freestanding mountainlets.


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   In Theory on Monday I'd take the train to Albury, 7.5 hours, and then drive from there to Euston (5.5 hours), and that would be that. Not so simple it turns out ( Read more... )

Friday, June 9th, Day 36 - Late yesterday evening I learned today we would be going on a long drive to a town called Bunkpurugu where a bunch of our trainees last year had come from, and we would meet with them, see how they're doing and look at their apiary sites.

   04:50 I woke up, and we departed at around 05:30. We being Dr Courage, the ( Read more... )

   I was planning on writing the sequel to last entry the next day but gosh it's been a busy week and I've either been busy or exhausted from being busy every evening ( Read more... )

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July 12th - "It's desert noir" I commented, as I snapped a photo of a ramshackle falling-down old house with junk around it, with Mt Whitney rising up behind it. Somewhere near the Manzanar internment camp.

I'd only arrived in the states just the day before and already we were on an epic roadtrip! My uncle was getting (re)married in a small ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday: I'm just starting up from the almost-complete-stop at the stop sign when the engine shuts down, leaving me slowly rolling in terror across a highway that has no stops, in what's called a "black spot" intersection due to the dangerous accidents that occur there. Muttering "no no no no no noooo" under my breath I look both ways expecting ( Read more... )

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Tuesday, May 30th, Charleston, Oregon -The magical power of deep paranoia woke me up. Which is to say I woke up and looked at the time every ten minutes till 6:40, and then every two minutes until it was finally 6:50. Since I was sleeping in the crypt-like darkness of a ship's forecastle, a dozen sailors ( Read more... )

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Monday, May 29th - "Well, are you coming or not?" asked Kori, via facebook messenger that morning, "because I have not make the watch bills and need to know whether or not to put you on them ( Read more... )

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Monday, May 22nd - This day I was finally headed somewhere new (Spokane)! Unfortunately to get there I'd have to drive up the boring ole five a hundred or so miles to Portland, which I love, without having time to stop there, and then I'd be in new territory for the next several hours.
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