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…13 hours after I left Tam’s to catch the Flyaways bus from Van Nuys, I got home. Yep, flights via O’Hare are still a bit messy. But I had a wonderful time and I’m home. I tried to upload photos but Gallery is a bit corrupted at the moment so it’s going to have to [...]

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 There will be more once I’m home, but here are three quick ones.   Yep, my hair has gotten just a *little* long! The stylist actually used a curling iron on all of it. What patience! It looked nice, but I still can’t wait to cut it.    Hair all done, but still in normal [...]

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I realised after seeing it on another blog that I hadn’t updated my countries since June. Have remedied that: create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands I also came to realise just how odd that sounds. New countries since June. Adding New Zealand is a bit of a technicality but no worse [...]

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Melbourne. Arrived Friday AM via Auckland and my jetlag prevention tactic (stay awake  all day from NYC – LA and then sleep LA – Melbourne) worked fairly well. Slept most of the way to Auckland and dozed Auckland – Melbourne. Meant that I was awake from ~3AM Melbourne time but I stayed awake the whole [...]

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so I calculated that it would be some 33 hours between when my flight was scheduled to depart from White Plains (HPN) this morning and arrival in Melbourne. It’s 9:32 EDT so I’m ~12.5 hours into it. Delayed out of HPN this morning (weather and residual delays) but I made my connection in O’Hare with [...]

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