Captain's Quarters on Mayne Mayne Island

... position over looking the water, you get a great view of the float planes landing and taking off. I know I'm a real anorak, as Julie keeps telling me! Due to its position on the leeward side of the island's mountains, Victoria has the mildest climate in the whole of Canada. This allows for some unusual plant life, they even have banana plants in some of the gardens. Across the bay the snow capped mountains loom on the horizon, rising majestically from the US, Olympic peninsular.

... flown in - so he's never heard it from me and he knew exactly what he was asking of me with only a week off. Well I guess I'm going to Indonesia; I don't know when, I kinda know where, but now I've gotta get into gear!!! ****. I don't have much time! All my stuff is winter gear! What should I do??? Solution? Go to the Rowing Club and have beers with the boys all night. Okay, Friday: 3 hours of massage at the casino, a ...

... Mathew Begbie, known as "The Hanging Judge", who along with first Governor James Douglas, helped provide order to the area in the late 1800's when the Gold Rush took hold. I wore out two sets of batteries on the camera, took over 300 pictures, and do not have a signal that's appropriate for uploading a single one of them right now, so will just place a map pin, and go back to the usual promise "more details, and lots of photos to follow"

... Vancouver, I said to my seatmates that it would be a relief to get out and not have to be x-rayed at every turn, and a guy said it would also be nice not to have to show your boarding pass every 100 feet. No kidding! Ya gotta wonder how the person at the far end of the "show your boarding pass" line figures we could have got that far without a boarding pass, as we'd shown it several ...

... on the phone to dad and had to wait four hrs in sydney airport, oh how i wish for starbucks!!:) well i will get home eventually, thats the main thing. by the time i came into adelaide airport i was so excited that i started telling the person next to me. dont think they really wanted to know ! i am so glad to see hot concrete, is really weird that it has nothing on it, no snow, no dirt, mud, moss .... i put my pink cow girl hat on and jumped on my parents! IM HOME!!!! AND ITS ...

... been out for the day. They have a strange system in this bar and one I have never seen before anywhere.....people are actually forming an orderly queue to be served at the bar. It's the way it should be everywhere as you have no one pushing in or getting served earlier because their mate works behind the bar. They have it spot on.....especially as I am sitting at the bar and they serve them ...

... by nearly 10,000 people from over 100 countries over the past week. While I'll save you the details, it was one of the most inspiring, eclectic, and motivating gatherings of positive people I've ever been a part of - even if at times frustrating in being wrapped up in some of the beaurocracy seen in events and organizations of this magnitude. This month also saw me heading down to Washington State for the Sasquatch festival (cooooooool ...

... us. We began at Scully's apartment, literally around the corner from our B and B, and traversed the entrie city finding the Hong Kong airport, Kazakstan (where Krycek had his arm cut off), etc. http://www.vanmovietours.com/ That evening we hung out at the bed and breakfast in the Shangri-La Suite and took off soon after breakfast the next morning. It was a bittersweet drive back over the border to Seattle for our flight home.

Alaska airlines seemed to be Nice enough. The people were friendly and helped me through their non standard ticketing process. "Sir are yoU aware of the ssss on your boarding pass" said a large refrigerator little security point, as he leaned over me and pointed to My pass. "No'' I said. "what does it mean''? "Something abort you has prompted the airline to offer you for an enter security search- " "is that anything or ...

... let Richard tell you that story. All emails to (Richard.knight@oracle.com)... We headed home. 22 kms from home our truck decided to blow its engine, literally. We are awaiting a new engine from Ford. The advert for the truck says "Ford - Built tough for life in Canada". Funny, I didn't think Elaine and I were that heavy, but obviously that can't be the case when a brand new, 2006 truck with 4000 kms on the clock goes bang. Cest la vie. Times run out again. Bye for now. Will