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Those much-vaunted security measures
So the story goes: an 11-year-old boy ran away from his mother, walked three miles to Manchester Airport, went through five security checkpoints, and boarded an international flight to Rome.....all, without a passport or a boarding pass.
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Back from Brazil
Back home from the trip to Rio de Janeiro and the falls at Iguassu. The trip was great sightseeing, delicious food (especially the fruits!), and fraught with family drama issues. I survived the latter, and I thoroughly enjoyed the former ( Read more... ) -
Frantic
The days leading up to a vacation are always frantic. Lots of last minute things that always crop up. I tend to start one thing, get distracted, start another, get distracted again, start a third...right! And so it takes longer to finish what I need to finish. Boo yah ( Read more... ) -
S. American Visas
This trip to Brazil has been fraught with visa nuisances. I simply cannot understand why Brazil and Argentina (only for non-US citizens) require people to come in person on two different days (two weeks apart) to the consulates to get their visas. And of course, there're no consulates in Seattle ( Read more... ) -
Bits and Bites and Thingamabobs -- Part Deux
This is seriously cool: One of Hollywood's most beautiful woman was an inventor in secret. Actress Hedy Lamarr is now credited with having developed spread-spectrum radio or frequency-hopping in the 1940s. It's currently used in Bluetooth, CDMA, among others. In the late 1990s when she was in her early 80s, one bright bulb in the field of wireless ( Read more... ) -
Off to Rio I Go
I don't know how to send a private message through LJ, so I'm going to post it as an open letter to friend silmarilI'm seeking advice on what a group of seven people from ages 8 to 80, who've never been to Brazil, would want to see in the six days they have in Rio in early July ( Read more... ) -
Hello after a long time...
December was a blur of concert upon concert. With two singers in the family, there were mutiple holiday performances. Such fun ( Read more... ) -
Cruisin'
The weekend before Thanksgiving, we went cruising to the Bahamas with Hubby's sister's family and Hubby's sister's friends' family.
I've heard cruising's all chi-chi and cool. Sorry, I'm not part of that crowd. This was my first time, and it was way overrated, and this was not because I get mildly seasick.
- Space is so constricted as to make ( Read more... )
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Kauai
Kauai: sun, beach, snoozing, fruits, coconut water, snoozing, swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, snoozing, Hindu temple, birds, flowers, snoozing, reading, eating and eating and eating, 664 photographs. -
Writing from India
So yes, I was able to go. And I'm now here. And it's ho-hum: fun at the same time but slightly nerve-wracking. I'm waiting for the shoe to drop ( Read more... )