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Melbourne 2026 July

Cartier The NGV’s Cartier exhibit was stunning. I was first in the door at 10am and began in the first room but I was aware that I was going to want to spend a lot of time with the tiaras and take careful pix of them so I decided to make a bee line to […]

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Sri Lanka

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

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Italy 2026

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

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Melbourne 2026 March

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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Egypt

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

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