It’s been a long time since I posted on this here blog, but it’s now time to get back into it. I’ve now relocated and settled back in to Canberra, Australia after a wonderful three years living and working in Southern California. I’ll be honest and say that I did suffer quite a bit of reverse [...]
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I’m currently in Paris, France. It’s cold, but at least it isn’t snowing. We’ve been enjoying beautiful blue skies and gorgeous soft winter light; just perfect for photos. It’s been 13 years since I was last here, although I can’t honestly remember the city much from that trip. Back then I was a student on a very [...]
Tomorrow we get on a plane and leave the USA. For the last few weeks we’ve alternated between frantically finalising our life here and reminiscing about our favourite and least-favourite experiences here. It’s a bitter-sweet feeling leaving a country that has been home for three years. We are excited about ‘going home’ to the culture [...]
Thanks to Dixiebelle for checking if I’m still here. Let me assure you I am. My life these days just seems consumed with deadlines at work and all the rigmarole surrounding an international move. In ten weeks time, we’ll be putting our dog on a plane back to Australia, having our farewell parties with our American friends and work colleagues, packing [...]
Brendan and I are currently in Alaska visiting with friends. We’ve only been here for two days and I already feel like a new person. I start the day out drinking coffee overlooking the mountains and Eagle River where Bald Eagles have made a nest and swoop and soar on the air currents. Both days [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post on this here blog. The main reason is that I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. Sometimes writing helps my thinking, but recently thinking has been getting in the way of writing. With five months to go until we leave the US and head back [...]
Where in the World? Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posted: May 27, 2010 by Mia in Travel, Where in the WorldVancouver is a lovely city on the West Coast of Canada. We visited in the spring of 2008. In a number of ways it reminds me a little of San Franciso with lots of lovely parks, a large bridge over the bay and plenty of water surrounding the city. It’s also one of the ‘greener’ cities [...]
After a horrible week, Brendan and I are getting away for the weekend. We’ve both been so busy that we haven’t had time to plan anything. We are therefore going to do something we rarely do….be spontaneous. We are going to get into the car tomorrow, pack some clothes, pack the bug-out-bag in case we [...]
Where in the World? Aircraft Boneyard, Arizona, USA
Posted: April 12, 2010 by Mia in Travel, Where in the WorldIn 2008 I visited the place where military aircraft go to die. It’s called the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), but it’s more commonly known as the ‘Boneyard’. It houses at least one of every plane flown by the U.S. armed forces since WWII and it’s believed to be the largest airplane graveyard [...]
Where in the World? Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Posted: April 6, 2010 by Mia in Travel, Where in the WorldThis week’s ‘Where in the World?’ features the middle east. The Pyramids of Giza had long been on my ‘must see’ list and I finally got to visit in 2005. If you are anything like me, you probably imagine the pyramids to be quite isolated, rising like mirages from a sandy desert. The truth is much less [...]
