With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus In a chartreusse microbus Thanks to Teresa and Haidi for the line. Sunday 27 August We left Saltwater and headed east to Yellowstone. We took SR410 across Washington rather than the motorway as we also wanted to visit Mount Rainier. Washington is just one mountain after another, so we thought we should visit at least one and Mount Rainier is one of the most accessible and en route. For once we had got up and on the road by 8. We had wanted to stop at the first entrance to [View Full Entry]

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Firstly - I can't send any emails from Yahoo on Jess's laptop, so am not ignoring you all, just can't reply. USA I landed at San Francisco on August 17th. The only delay to our flight was whilst we sat on the runway and the airline had to email all our names to the FBI to grant access to fly us to the US. Imagine the FBI digging into files about little me!! All the passengers on board were so grateful to get on a flight and find their luggage had accompanied them that we couldn’t even be bothered to complain [View Full Entry]

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Two days to go now and so much has happened. I have had a few panic attacks about renting my house out, will they love my garden, will they talk to my lemon and olive plants and will they promise never, ever to play hide the sausage in my beautiful white bed? Apparently you can’t really put stuff like that in the lettings contract which seems somewhat unfair. If A-list celebs can make ridiculous demands about their dressing rooms, why can’t I make perfectly reasonable minor additions to a standard contract? Over the past few weeks I have had health/eye/dental checks [View Full Entry]

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I have started this travelblog so my family and friends can keep up with where I am and see I am safe and well and frittering away my future. After 41 years of underachieving and 10 years of longing to see Australia I finally found a way to excel at one whilst visiting the other - I have chucked my job in and am off to Ramsey Street Land! It was all very sudden. I was commuting to work when I realised that another minute stuck on a train to nowhere would kill me. When I got to work I resigned [View Full Entry]

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