Another thing I like about traveling is how it seems to alter my sense of time. You know the feeling. You go on a week’s trip, and after only a couple of days it feels as if you’ve lived two lifetimes. You can often be heard to exclaim, “Wow, it feels as if I’ve been … Continue reading
Category Archives: Travel
Dining on the Road in Hokkaido, Japan
You are in a foreign country, driving your rental car through the hinterlands. You’re hungry, but you haven’t seen a restaurant or grocery store all day. In the small villages you pass, there don’t seem to be any restaurants, or if there are, you can’t easily spot them because you can’t read the local signs saying … Continue reading
It’s The One You Never See That Gets You
The scene was deceptively serene with no hint of the reptilian danger lurking just beneath the rippling water of the East Alligator River in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory of Australia. The paperbark gum tree overhanging the river marked the location of an infamous crocodile attack…or so we were told by our Aboriginal … Continue reading
Shanghai Sojourn
We are traveling again, this time in China. Irv and I were invited by a colleague at East China Normal University in Shanghai to visit and give some lectures. For me, it’s been almost thirty years since I was last in Shanghai. Things were quite different in 1988, just a year before the Tiananmen Square massacre. … Continue reading
Tide Pools at Otter Rock, Oregon
I spent a pleasant day exploring the tide pools along the rocky shoreline south of Depoe Bay, Oregon. One spot that is accessible at low tide is near Otter Rock and the Devil’s Punchbowl (see photo left). I used my GoPro Hero 3+ camera attached to a monopod to film underwater in the tide pools. … Continue reading
Another Room With A View
“Do you see that dark mass surfacing about fifty yards offshore?” That’s me trying to direct my husband’s attention to something I’ve spotted in the sea. He replies, “No. Is it near the cove inlet?” “Yes. OK, now it’s moved a few yards north. Look! It just spouted.” “Where? Where? I don’t see anything except … Continue reading
Wollongong and Gerringong
We flew from Adelaide back to Sydney where we were picked up by a driver who took us to Wollongong to meet up with colleagues at the University of Wollongong. Along the way, the driver stopped so that we could get some photos at an overlook–the city in the distance is Wollongong (select photo to … Continue reading
Urban Wetland
One of our last stops in the Adelaide area was at a small urban wetland. We were taking the beach road to our hotel when we spotted an inlet with a small marsh. Another car was parked along the road, so we pulled in behind it. We wandered around the area, trying to identify the marsh … Continue reading
Chapel Hill Winery
Our last wine review is for the Chapel Hill Winery in McLaren Vale, a region just south of Adelaide, Australia. After the tasting, we were taken on a brief tour of the wine making operation. Here is the video: Continue reading
Coriole Winery
Our next wine stop was Coriole Winery in McLaren Vale, south of Adelaide, Australia. We had a lunch of duck, left over from last night’s dinner, on the porch overlooking the vineyard. Irv then tasted a few wines: Continue reading