One more sleep to go before departing for London. :)
Really excited but at the same time feeling a bit scared. Today's news doesn't make it better with the headline "Terror in London". Hope those low life x2 gets their just deserts. Pity they were not shot dead instead of just being wounded which meant more GBP spend on healing their injuries, to be follow by prosecution and then imprisonment. Better to deport them to where ever they came from. Just deserts.
Anyway, where was I??? Oh yes…
I met my three friends, Jeanne Johnson, Carol Freeman, and Alyce Rodda, in the Rome airport after I had stayed overnight in Rome. Actually it wasn’t quite that simple---we were a couple of hours looking for each other, due to a mixup in plans. Anyway, all’s well that ends well, and we moved on to pick up our rental car. Well, that was a nasty surprise! The company had a policy that nobody could rent and drive the car if they were over 75 years of age. It certainly would have been nice to…
Just a reminder that we chose a basic travel route of Rajasthan that millions of visitors travel. I cannot repeat enough just how hard it was to choose which places to visit – and which places to note in my journal - and when I did visit a certain place, I knew I was seeing only a very small portion. So this simple journal is for those many ‘older’ travellers wondering if they should visit.
In the larger cities and trying to get to the highway, always there were multi small children peering…
Oh wow! I just read about how couchsurfing has gradually become sexsurfing for some couch surfers and hosts.
Although, I have registered as a member way back in 2010, I haven't personally host or have had the opportunity to become a couch surfer. In 2010, I did try contacting a few members in a couple of Asian cities but because I am of Asian appearance, these people did not bother to reply and I sort of gave up on the idea.
Have offered accommodation to a couple of mature aged couch surfers…
Here’s a link to a newspaper article written by a daughter about her 67-year-old mother’s post-retirement travel adventures. The article brought a smile to my face as I read it. I’ve been trying to do the same thing . . . “ to see the whole world before I die.”
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2021005046_retirementbudgetescapesxml.html
Although the writer didn’t address the issue, I bet she had some sleepless nights wondering and worrying about her mom.
A work in progress
LeeGil asked how I'm going to make the donkey I'll be taking with me to carry my baggage on my Camino walk next spring. I thought she deserved a posting of her own, as there will be much more news about her in the coming weeks/months. So here goes:
Jamilla, my donkey (the name means 'perfection' in Arabic) will be about the size of a miniature Mediterranean donkey.
Her framework has been cannibalised from an old ironing board, which I've dismantled and cut down to…
Hi guys,
As usual I spent this past winter traveling in warm climes (I live in the drizzle/drear of the Pacific Northwest of the US). This trip was largely in familiar territory; but due to serious foot pain I didn’t want to stress, so the trip ended up being more ad hoc, more invent-it-as-you-go than usual.
Accordingly, this travel report is more scattered, and the product of a camera that manifested less inspiration than usual.
Nevertheless, enjoy.
Lee
I recently heard that on a flight out of the UK, the pilot made an announcement.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. We are currently at, Oh my God".., a pause of several seconds, then he continued, "Sorry, one of the flight attendants accidentally spilled a very hot cup on coffee on my lap; you should see the front of my pants".
A passenger at the rear of the plane shouted, "You should see the BACK of mine".
My bad karma is at it again! I really don't think I'm that evil to warrant all this nonsense.
I'm leaving for five weeks in Fiji in a couple of days and wanted to take 350 pds stlg I've had lying around since my last trip to London, as backup funds. Yesterday I separated the stlg bills from the coins, stored the coins in a wallet along with spare Euros and put the coins back in the drawer where all my left-over foreign currency bits and pieces are kept. This morning I decided to pack up my…