Well I am arrived in Columbus Ohio and ensconced in my room. I have internet (that I am paying for, not sure if that means I will be on it more or less) and really crappy coffee. I thought I would be smart and bring my own sachets of Nescafe frappuccinos with me but ... totally forgot that Americans don't drink tea thus don't have kettles in the ( Read more... )

I'm watching the weather on CNN - tornadoes have hit in the midwest including Ohio.

I'm guessing I might have a delay tomorrow when flying into Chicago and out again.

Given what else has happened on the peripheral of my life this week, I might buy a lottery ticket.

ETA: Chicago (Ohare) seems to have a 75 minute delay.


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The Hilton is a lovely hotel, service wise, but it falls down on facilities, particularly food options between 2 pm and 5pm. Also its dinner menu is rather limited. And no bar fridge. Yesterday I got back to the hotel at about 3pm and could find nowhere to buy a drink (the machine on the bottom floor wouldn't take coins ( Read more... )

I am trying to find the weirdest or most American stuff to try. I kinda get a kick outta that kind of stuff. Mostly I'm really hating the food and I think that must surely be because I am eating in the wrong places. Hopefully to be corrected once I hit Ohio ( Read more... )

Well yesterday I decided I would go on down to the Washington Mall and see things I'd always been sorry not to have seen the last time I was in DC. I started with the Vietnam Memorial so I took the Metro up to Fogggy Bottom (heee) and then wandered down to the memorial via George Washington University. I got my first glimpse of the Washington ( Read more... )

Well, the slower we took the weekend, the slower we needed to take it. Saturday morning we slept in (though not really since we just never flicked over from Perth time) and then sauntered down to Gus' for breakfast. Gus' did much better eggs, I have to say. And I had a delicious Watermelon Kiss to go with it. We hung out there for aggggges. We had ( Read more... )

Last night kathrynlinge and I flew into Canberra. We basically arrived at the hotel, went for a quick run out to the nearest 7/11 (bought a soft drink called "Jones" in the flavour "Fufu Berry") and then went to bed. I was just listening to kathrynlinge tell her bf what we did today and it sounded like we cafe crawled from one end of the day to the other. And sure, we did ( Read more... )

Today is the last day of my 3 week holiday and I tried not to sleep in in order to be tired earlier tonight and get an early one in. Getting to my day job at 9am will not be an easy task for me. As much as I have loved my break and I've been dreading today with one sleep to go, I must admit that I am recharged and ready and excited to go back to ( Read more... )

I just bit the bullet and booked my tickets to Tasmania for Xmas before indecision made the choice more expensive ( Read more... )

I met kathrynlinge at a new day spa for a facial and massage. I was 15 minutes late - I'm not very reliable at 9am and I'm still not sleeping. But they punished K for my lateness but cutting short both our treatments. I feel very bad about that. I'm still working on the relaxing and chilling out thing. The whole way through the session I kept thinking I was ( Read more... )