Thursday, June 25 Upon arriving in Colombo, we were struck by how different Sri Lanka was to India. The airport was not a crush of frantic energy. The people were genuinely friendly, not just to sell us something. Everything was clean. Another tourist commented that Sri Lanka was as if India and Bali had a […]
Saturday, June 13 Oh, the airplane shenanigans. While sitting in the plane at SBA before take off, SFO instructed us not to leave for an hour so we sat on the tarmac and I just read a book while the fates did what they would. DH2 was already researching alternate flights since our connection was
When we returned from North Africa, DH2 asked what I wanted us to do during the one month we’d be in Melbourne before returning to California. I had wanted to go to Werribee for our dateline last December or January but my toe was too fractured to do a trip like that but after physio
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When I was ten years old, I did a school project on the sphinx of Giza and it has lived rent-free in my head since then. As a teen, the King Tutankhamun exhibit was in Los Angeles so it was in the newspapers (I used to read a newspaper daily until 2016) and discussed often
Thursday, February 12 An American can’t just come to Libya, you have to have a tour guide and 1 police for each person at all times. After that is arranged, then you can apply for a visa. We were greeted at the border by all three men and they made the crossing easy. The air
