Holiday Inn Select Windsor (Ambassador Bridge) On

Phew... Going through US Customs was a bit trying... No searching but a lot of questions meant - I supposed - to catch us with something bad... Who knows. We did not loose any meal. We're in the middle of a fairground, with a weak WiFi but OK. The only analog TV channels are from Detroit but the Detroit area offers 22 digital channels, many

Longer day than expected but we grinded the flying condo to a halt. No problem other than a sticking lock on the propane door.

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Ah Detroit...home to the Pacers-Pistons brawl at the palace, the Russian national hockey team, and what will be the remnants of the once great American auto-industry once the bailout money is misappropriated and gone. I just had a burger at Chili's too for lunch, figuring it will be the last ...

... This fellow graduated with Bill, so we'll see if they can recognize each other. I mean it's only been 46 years!
Just got word that our shipboard account has been credited $250 as an "investor benefit" What a great deal! If you own 100 shares of the cruise line stock, you can collect shipboard credit every time you cruise. I got lucky and bought at the very ...

The morning leaving the island was quite surreal for me.  For the first time that I can remember I was properly prepared for a trip with a surplus of time to leisurely pack my belongings.  Suprisingly, I did not mentally prepare myself for the fact that I would be living in a foreign country for the better half of a year.  On this particular day, I solely was thinking about finally escaping my tiny hometown.  I have to admit that at some points this summer I speculated whether or not my ...

... t get the seat fixed.

Cath and I walk up the road a100 metres and find a family restaurant (like a diner no alcohol but wholesome cheap food). Good food again. We tried to take a photo of someone smoking in the restaurant as this is so foreign to us but I almost got caught so you will just have to remember the eighties in Australia to understand.

Off to bed

A nice relaxing day with a bit of time to catch up at the end

... on the road on our way to Windsor...we had been keeping the cat litter box in the trailer. There didn't seem a need for it on the previous legs of the trip. However, I noticed that Cocoa was scratching around a blanket that I had lying on my pillow...for a bed for her...and she was clearly trying to cover up...you know like as if she was in a box. Sure enough, she had peed on my pillow and was using the blanket to try to cover it up. At the next stop ...

... and some friends about my trip back, saying temporary goodbyes to new friends here, organizing all the trian and bus and air ticket, figuring out who's going to host me and setting up meetings and appointments (personal and business and visa related). Of course spending a lot of time with Jordan before we are going to be separated for the next number of weeks. We spent a wonderful weekend in my favourite city in Canada called Stratford. I will tell ...

... do you have? And where are the pictures of your old vacations, the ones that you don't look at anymore? In your mind when you hear these questions you start picturing all the different shoes that you have: your mind goes into your closet and looks at least at the ones you use most often. And then you mind goes to a cabinet or dresser somewhere and sees a few stacks of photo envelopes, goes inside one or tow, sees roughly what a couple of the photos are ...

... by his friends - new and old. So this is my effort and motivation to continuous cultivating the friendship and communicating with each one of you by sharing my thoughts and my adventures. So even though I am going to talk a lot about new friends in my blog, each of you, my 'old' friends, have a special place in my heart, every single friendship is like a special piece of gemstone, every single one is unique and every one shines. I love you all.

280 Billion Dollars... That's what the US attack on Iraq is costing so far... two hundred and eighty billion... George has just asked for this new 80 Billion "informally" as they said on the radio... "So uh, hey guys... Do you think I Could have another 80 BILLION DOLLARS to kill Iraqi's and destroy their country?" "Oh... yeah sure George... just take whatever you want... ya know?" Imagine what 280 BILLION DOLLARS could do for the people of America??? Maybe wipe out poverty ...