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Guadalajara 10 months ago

In effort to escape the frozen North I took a trip “a last minute deal” and find myself in Guadalajara . What great place!! If only I could speak spanish.. The people are very patient and supportive.. Today a Sunday, as chance would have it they closed off a main street (AV Vallanta) to traffic. My friend and I were given the use of 2 Bikes for FREE and we joined in and rode the length, What a thrill…I am very impressed with Mexico.

Dec 16, 2007, 02:54PM PST | 0 comments


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Arizona 11 months ago

Well I am back at work, a recovering traveler having just returned from Phoenix Arizona where I was lucky enough to score 4 weeks of company training, and although I was San Francisco for a week in July, this past month made feel like it was my first real foray into middle America.
The weather there was excellent and strikingly similar to Kalgoorlie, where I come from in Australia. Most of the days were full of oceans of blue sky and the warm dry evenings made for some great coffee shop stops. I met some nice people and made some new friends, performing has always been a good way for me to meet new people. I went to the north Rim of the grand canyon and it is beyond doubt worth the effort. I spent a weekend at Salome a small town 100 miles west of Phoenix with a bunch of old timey fiddlers it was great, I played a lot of banjo that weekend.
My take home view of America is that it is full of ordinary people living their lives much like everybody else, as such they are too busy meeting family and work obligations they are worried about how climate change will effect them , feeling powerless to make change that will effect a change in their outcome..

Nov 15, 2007, 12:47PM PST | 4 cheers | 2 comments


Be an Enviromental Warrior (read all 4 entries…)
Going for Green... 1 year ago

speculative yes ….but do I feel good about it..anyway I just bought a heap of shares in a BC hydro business…. they will sell green power on the grid.

I grew up in in coal mining community in Australia and here I am living in the Canadian Oil patch, the enigma of green head and black feet conjures images of a hobbitt away from the shire: we can effect change from within.

May 04, 2007, 10:36AM PDT | 8 cheers | 4 comments


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make my own prom dress be wanted be remembered learn to sing improve my english Watch a space shuttle launch MarleneTC wants to buy more books fulfill my potential simplify my life eat more healthy Organize my iTunes library (rank, info etc.) bake a giant cookie live, not merely exist Write more often bake learn to belly dance build my own website go to an oasis concert DustyJo wants to add to my tattoo paris go to bed earlier become better at small-talk ayanap wants to Make a portfolio website, and update it Grow my hair long (again) Excel in everything I do clean and organize my house Start a book of quotes that inspire me travel the world