I was cold last night, and I couldn’t sleep—small remnants of jet lag from my trip last week. So I drew a hot bubbly bath and let myself soak a while, the first time since I got back from Oz; I’m typically a shower girl, so it was kind of a treat. Later, as I got out and as the water drained out of the tub, my phone rang. It was “Mrs. Wilberforce” from downstairs, and she asked me if…
I thought I’d take a small break from posting my Australia photos to participate in Photo Friday this week, where the topic is Technology. This is an oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, during sunset—a very familiar view for me. Oil rigs are a commonplace sight here in H.B.—they are everywhere. They dot the parking lot of the courthouse, the neighborhood in empty lots next to expensive houses, the bare lands next to the ecological reserves, and every…
Ah, Albany. This is on the south coast of Western Australia, further east of the Valley of the Giants. It’s gorgeous there, with deep blue skies and white sand beaches. It’s cool and breezy, the winds blowing the clouds across the sky so quickly it’s like you’re sitting in H.G. Wells’ time machine as it moves toward the future. In this particular part of Albany, we visited the Gap and the Natural Bridge, and the tour guide told us that…
I took the above photo in the Valley of the Giants, sometime in the first half of the first tour my godmother and I took on my second full day in Australia. The Valley of the Giants is located around Walpole, south of Perth, close to the southern coast of Australia. It’s a forest of giant tingle trees, which are hardy and shallow-rooted. There are two parts of the park we visited—the Tree Top Walk and the Ancient Empire. The…
I clicked my heels three times on the 12th of March, just half an hour after noon at a major city in Australia, and about 13 or 14 hours later I arrived back in California, on the 12th of March at 7:00 in the morning, over five hours before I left. Dorothy never had it so bad; I’m still recovering from the jet lag, and I can’t imagine what Jean-Claude Van Damme had to endure every time he time travelled….