Thursday, July 20, 2006planning and plotting tipsI've been away from blogit for a couple of days, busily immersed in travel plannng and I have devised a routine for finding good quality and affordable accomodation. After a bit of research from various travel books I decided to download the internet software package Travelaxe which sources all the... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, July 17, 2006funk it all and funk it nowIt's the end of a Monday in the land of the wild koala and my feet are bobbing on top of the exercise ball to the sounds of Motown. Saw a documentary called In the Shadows of Motown on the weekend. Turns out all those great Motown songs had the same group of musicians doing the backing but, while... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, July 16, 2006a decisive weekendHere I am at the end of a most decisive weekend with plane tickets bought for November: Sydney to San Francisco; San Francisco to Vegas; Vegas to New York. The grand train trip across the continent has, admittedly, gone out the window but it's impossible to have everything in a limited timeframe. So... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, July 14, 2006the most brilliant news in the conceivable universeCasually walked into the new bosses office and did the old when can I organise my leave and she goes.. go ahead and book your tickets and we can sort out who will look after the place while you're away later. You little bloody beauty! United States of America I am coming to you baby! Now the serious... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, July 13, 2006NEW STORY POSTED Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, July 12, 2006what is the worst song in living memory?Play it Mr. John Lee Hooker cause I'm in the mood baby, in the mood for looove. Yeah. Sing IT. Amen. Yeah. Night time is the right time to be with the one you love. Yeah. I'm in the mood baby, the mood for love. Oh baby yeah. Have you turned on to the music yet people? Have you unlocked the hidden... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, July 11, 2006blogit conspiracies and the compensation of blood-lettingI have a conspiracy theory about the internet fangled blog business. Is it just my paranoia or does the rating number change very quickly and sometimes quite significantly just after you make a post? Is our ranking destiny really determined directly by readership or by a pale skinned internet geek... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, July 10, 2006crazy talking foreigner flies on rollercoasterTonight be prepared for a classical touch as we sip some vino and have a dash of Puccini. Why Puccini you ask? Why not Mozart? It's probably related to the fact that Turandot is coming to town and it's been a while since I've been to an opera (and no, the t is NOT pronounced so its Turan - doh, just... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, July 7, 2006the cost of being in a sausage's flightpathAnd so the week ends to the slightly hallucinogenic sounds of a Bjork CD which, if combined with my herbal tea, would surely lead me to a floating wonderland of awesome possibilities that even John Denver couldn't have imagined. It has been quite a week dear reader, a period of planning and dreaming... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, July 6, 2006a plan that is surely the definitive experience of AmericaOK so maybe the pieces are falling together into something that's both possible but nevertheless grand and epic, a journey that taps into the whole spirit of manifest destiny but in reverse because it would be starting in San Francisco and moving east but still the history is there to be had. In San... Sign in to see full entry. |
