Travel

Tunisia

Monday 2/9 After leaving the cold and complicated border of Algeria, I was happy that we were inside and weirdly first in line at the Tunisia border. The immigration officer spent an inordinate amount of time looking at every page of our passports. He looked each one twice through, so the queue behind us grew quickly.

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Algeria

From the Sydney airport, the first leg on Turkish Airlines dropped us in Malaysia for a refuel and crew change. That first leg was 8 hours, I had the whole row to myself and no one sitting in front of or behind me. Bliss. The refueling side quest was supposed to be an hour but

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Melbourne 2026 January

The month was punctuated with physio exercises and a graduation out of the moon-boot. With a new diagnosis of osteopenia, the list of required exercises grew to include more weight bearing and balance exercises. In my walking group, I would meet them at the beginning of the walk and then if I knew their ending

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Melbourne 2025 December

Because of my fractured toe, I was not able to engage with my city the way I normally would. I missed out on many of the xmas decorations and activities that I wanted to see and do and had to navigate the medical system for an actual problem. My wine group had its end of

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Melbourne 2025 October

I was on my own for 2 weeks in October as DH2 returned to California for work ahead of when I returned. With the release of a new Taylor Swift album dropping on October 3, I was glad he was not in my orbit so I could immerse myself in the new music without having

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