After we crossed the border into South Africa, we saw a huge troop of baboons and it felt prescient to future visual treats. We stayed at the Hollywood lodge, a 100 year-old house with no signage, locked gate, and an extremely generous 7.0 rating on booking.com. The room door wouldn’t open from the inside so
The sky was yellow as we landed in Windhoek and quickly picked up our VW Polo from the rental agency. There were baboons on side of road outside Windhoek and I was struck by how flat the landscape was and how similar it was to a CA desert. We didn’t have the correct plug adapter
May 7-14, 2023 On the the Gold Coast for a conference where I wandered the beach and town, even walking down to Surfer’s Paradise. We took a train to Brisbane where DH2 had a university talk and met up with a UCSB colleague. I rode the ferris wheel, walked through the botanic garden and enjoyed
Autumn arrived with all its chill, wind, rain, and clouds so we broke out the scarves, gloves, and down jackets to stay busy. Rone is a popular street artist who took over the 3rd floor of Flinders Station to create a multi-room cultural snap shot of post WW2 working women. The woman in the art
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104. Vacation: Write about a vacation you took. Leaving Budva Montenegro (image above), we caught an early bus to Albania and although it was supposed to be a 4.75 hour trip, it instead took 6 hours. We had no Albanian money so we couldn’t pay cash plus the rest stops didn’t take credit so we
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