Most of the time we dread April 15th. For those of you outside of the U.S. it is the day our income taxes are due. But this year is a little different due to the Covid19 crisis. I went ahead and paid my Federal but still await a small refund from t

With sadness weve left the South Georgia Islands behind. We can imagine that many a passenger have felt similar emotions and in an effort to buoy our spirits Quark threw a BBQ on the aft deck What kind of craziness is this A bit frigid but stimulati

Snuggling up inside the duvet it was hard to make the decision to wake up fully and rise . The sun was slowly rising above the trees . There was a hint of a chilly morning out of the sun . Walking early is a pleasure before the rest of the world has woken

After one of the best night's sleep I'd had in a long time I woke up to find my clothes all dry from the night before. Great start to the day and when I looked out of the window it looked like the rain had stopped whether that would last I wasn't too s

I wrote this back in 2013. I am reposting in the hopes that you might donate to City Lights Bookstore as they struggle through the quarantine in San Francisco. It is by far the most historic and unusual bookstore I have ever visited. They have been r

The brain this morning does not want to function . One side is saying get up get moving get out . The other side replies in a negative fashion . Let me stay in bed a bit longer. My foot aches . Underneath and on top. Shoes are rubbing toes from so much

For those of you who must travel right now it must be a daunting experience. Fortunately planes are not full airports nearly empty and most of the people you encounter are wearing a mask. I could foresee problems with rental cars luggage carts airl

Morning safari at Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game ReserveToday we had to wake up extra early and leave Bibs Backpackers by 430 am to get on the bus to arrive at Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve for the morning safari. We had a packed breakfas

iSimangaliso Wetland Park In the afternoon the VESA African Unearth group headed of to the nearby iSimangaliso Wetland park for a nature walk with Johan one of our group leaders at the Crocodile Centre in St. Lucia. Johan is very k

Welcome to SwazilandToday we left St. Lucia and started to make our way to Swaziland. At the border because we were Canadian citizens we did not need to get a visa. However one of the volunteers of the VESA African unearth group from Thailand h

I took TX State Hwy 7 East to Center Texas for a good day. I took TX Hwy 87 SE to Shelbyville the first brief county seat for Shelby County and the Fire Department is my first pic in the City of Shelbyville. A block West of Fire Department is the First

BAPTISM OF FIREOur sixth cousin four generations removed was a fellow named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain from up in Maine. At the beginning of the Civil War Joshua was teaching the German language at Bowdoin College conducting Sunday school le

Mlilwane Wildlife SanctuaryWe woke up from our accommodation at Sondzela Backpackers to discover in our backyard warthogs grazing the grass. It finally dawned on us that we were in a sanctuary where animals had the right of way. The Mlil

Munich StopoverWe left Johannesburg South Africa on May 16th and arrived in Munich on May 17th. We had approximately 8 hours in Munich before we needed to head back to the airport for our flight to Toronto. Marienplatz

Are you getting up The navigator woke early this morning . I never heard him getting up . He was standing at the bottom of the bed What about your walk Are you bothering this morning I had made plans yesterday for todays walk . On the way home

Stuck isnt a word I think of often Its for children who get their arm wedged in the fence at a playground those idiots at bream sands who get stuck in the sand or that annoying jar lid that won't budge but we have had to accept that for the last few

We are all caught in the dilemma between planning and reserving future travel and vacations or cancelling. I have done plenty of both recently but perhaps more cancelling than booking. All of my February April and May trips have been cancelled or po

Today our last in Goa finds us up early and waiting outside for our driver at 6.30am as we're heading to Dudhsager Falls. These falls form part of the border between Goa and Karnataka and are India's 5th highest waterfall.At around 120klm for the re

I awake in my small room and slip out under the mosquito net that cocoons my bed. I know the layout so don't need to light a candle. My pack is ready where I left it last night I sling it over my shoulder and disappear into the equal darkness outside. Th

Thursday 27th June 2019It was raining in the morning as I made my way to the city of Kobe. The train ride to JR Kobe Station from Himeji took about an hour and very soon I was making my way out of the station towards the direction of Kobe Harbo

A birthday and Christmas present to my mum had been a trip to St Petersburg and in September 2019 we finally went there. Since I did not want to fly my mum by herself I had caught a train from Dortmund where I live to Stuttgart where she lives a few

It is Sunday. The shine is shining . It is a day of rest . But each day feels like a day of rest . Everyday feels like a Sunday. I could turn over fall asleep and have a late breakfast . Somehow along the way over the last 30 days walking has become an

Sunday 12 April 202028 days of quarantine down 14 more to goLike every Sunday in the new world of Peru under quarantine nobody is allowed to leave their homes today except for emergency medical services. All grocery stores pharmacies a

WE HAVE RUN AGROUND CAPTAIN RANEYThe Arkansas and Colorado Rivers originate only a few miles apart in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville Colorado. They are however on opposite sides of the Continental Divide. Snowmelt in the Arkansas River d

From Mostars mountainous hills we drove to Sarajevo where snowcovered high mountains showed why it was host to the

The Desert Botanical Gardens are really pretty in the springtime. The garden is an easy walk and is on the East side of the city close to the airport Papago Park and the Zoo

Morning all I guess you will all be up and greeting the dawn . Sleep did not come easy last night . Tossing and turning . You get nights like that at times . Hoping that once your head hits the pillow you will fall asleep . Some nights you do. Others the

As coronavirus spreads across the U.S. Americans in some of the country's hardesthit regions have stepped up to foster and adopt animals keeping them out of shelters. NBC News contacted shelters and animal advocacy organizations with facilities in Calif

My guesthouse owner gave me a small breakfast before leaving. I had coffee and polenta with cheese. After eating quite a lot of polenta in Romania and finding it pretty bland I wasn't expecting it to be amazing. However my hostess has found a way to make

Rameshwaram is a holy town located on Pamban island and is separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel. It is just 40km from Mannar island Sri Lanka.

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough Rabindranath Tagore one of my favourites. I saw the first butterfly of the season today . A Cabbage White the scourge of gardeners who love their cabbages . The pretty white things lays

Whoever originated the clich that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. Eric Hoffer21st April 2020 and the dashboard on the World Health Organis

So have you received your stimulus check or deposit yet On tax day April 15 we received ours tax free. And I promised to donate to Joe Biden which a check that has Orange man's name on it. Remember in 20082009 when Obama p

We had arrived in the city of Ouarzazate the name meaning without noise in late afternoon the previous day. We spent our one and only night here at the lovely Ksar Ighnda which had been a memorable experience for me the beautiful architecture of

31st May 16th June 2019 This is our first blog post since coming back from a yearlong trip in 2012. Since then we have visited many amazing places but our trip to Jordan is the first one which we decided to blog a

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I won't lie to you. My brain was Ok this morning accepting the fact that a walk was on the way after breakfast . It also knew that today was shopping day . The day of a telekit from work. It was my feet that were complaining . Complaining loudly at that

01 juin 2019 Nous retournons Chelva car je fais une crise d'allergie. Nous allons donc la pharmacie chercher des antihistaminiques 02 juin 2019 A 11H00 nous allons la messe Calles et refaisons une petite promenade dans le village.

I headed to the main bus station in Sofia to take the bus to Plovdiv. I had done a bit of research online and found that buses leave fairly regularly and there were a few different companies to choose from. I had hoped to make it to the bus station for the

For a celebration which I will not go into we thought we would treat ourselves to a couple of days in Cornwall. We left work early and headed down the evening before but we had completely underestimated how far away Cornwall is and it was well past midn

Once we had had another fullCornish and checkedout of the hotel we went for a walk back down to St Ives' harbour to see it in daylight. We circled round past the beach where the surfers were braving the cold around St Ives Head and then around the nar

THE GREAT SPACE ALIEN MICROBE CONSPIRACYIt remains a mystery how space alien microbes arrived on the planet. It seems likely that they may have hitched a ride on cosmic radio waves. Rotation of the planet as it revolves on its axis and orbits ar

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July 27 2018. Passau Germany. We docked on the Danube just upstream from the Inn and Ilz Rivers and across from the hill where the Veste Oberhaus a 13th century hilltop fortress sits. Our guided foot tour of the old town ended at the beautiful Baroque

What a life changing experience. More so for some than others. Our personal situation is doable. We arent struggling by any means. It is those with family friends or even themselves who have become ill with this coronavirus that are the ones dealt the

Would you believe there are 231 references to wine in the Bible Wine is an element of the JudeoChristian concept of the Eucharist or Holy Communion during Mass when wine is offered as representing the blood of Christ or the presence of Jesus on Earth

After one week in Belize I left San Ignacio by bus towards the border with Guatemala. The crossing and procedures at the migration went smooth and without any issues. Guatemala is the second largest country of Central America after Nicaragua but has the m

Hi everyone.hows life during COVID19I'm now in Brisbane visiting Archie. I know this is a challenging time for us. Many people have to stay away from family some people have to work from home and some might lose their jobs. I have