On Monday, it was time for the Oregon group (of 11) to sadly say their goodbyes and hit the road again. In planning the trip I asked AAA to do a different route for the return to Oregon trip, just for variety, and as it turned out the “high road” (up through Denver) was abou...
I’m now in my sixth year of writing for the Mayo News and I will never not be grateful to the team there for the opportunity they gave me in 2014, particularlyEdwin McGreal, Michael Duffy and the late Neill O’Neill. Somehow they thought that the ramblings they spotted here and on ...
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More than two decades later with travel around the world, I have filled a massive collection of books and used hundreds of brush pens. I needed so many books that I found a Philadelphia book bindery to make custom-sized folded paper and the book cover structure for me, rather than buying...
Room was great with lots of space: comfy bed and black out curtains made for a great nights sleep. All together an excellent experience. Date of stay: February 2023 Value Location Sleep Quality Rooms Cleanliness Service Review collected in partnership with th...
I was keen to see for myself what was left. I was shocked to find that the reality of an Eastern Goldfields ghost town is nothing at all like I’d been led to expect by Hollywood westerns. Our ghost towns are bare earth, razed to nothing, everything of value carted away. But you...
after all. Still, it’s nice to have it bound in one book. For me, some of the ‘newer history’ was more fascinating; ie being called upon to be a zombie movement coach for the (then) newThe Walking Deadtelevision show, a performance for the Oscars, working with the pop group OK...
We spoke about chairs, both confessing to using what Stefaans called, ‘a small folding campfire stool. Footstool size. Useful for lots of things. I use mine for pumping bicycle tires, weeding and any other chore for which I would otherwise have to crouch. ‘Cause I can’t get up.’...
format video clips). In a given caption, you’ll find little specific information: lots of general-purpose hashtags (#bw_lightandshadow, etc.)… which might be frustrating for some. But — for me — the dearth of information paradoxically adds weight to her reverence for the sheer beauty ...
This new approach also helps where I’m joining disparate data sources that update at different times of the year. For example, each December BITRE publish their Infrastructure and Transport Statistics Yearbook with lots of volume data, but I have to wait until March for ABS Regional Population...