Mercury madness approaches as Libra tips the balance to Scorpio meaning my 40th birthday blooms. Fantastic ‘forty’, a number uniquely alphabetically descending seems much older than it feels to me. Reflecting on my twenty or thirty something self I definitely feel less obligated to please everyone, and am better at saying no. My work is […]
Highway highs, and Golden Gate foggy lows.
One of the many reasons to go on a road trip is the journey. Counting the miles from Yosemite to San Fransisco we spy a number of dogs wearing goggles #googleittotallymorethanafashionfad. We also meet a sixty something man in a fast food outlet getting his dogs a treat. Inquisitive, I inquire as he discards the […]
California girls we’re undeniable. Fine, fresh fierce, we got in on lock.
It has been a year since I sat in the corner of the corridor in the crisp capital planning this trip. Receiving a posting brings a lengthy laundry list, but often a wondrous wish list too visiting ‘The golden grape state’ was top of the latter. California has always been a destino superior, images of […]
Adventures of the North with my Northern Charm
Une histoire de voyage pour trouver la montagne du Petit John. A triangle of states beckons the black beast as we set our sights on Arkansas. Discovering Arkansas is referred to as ‘The Natural State’ due to its adbundance of wildlife and natural scentic beauty, I was keen to explore. Driving through the great fertile […]
To homeschool, or not to homeschool that is the question………..
Military life and travel has led our family through well trodden tracks, and some less so. Mississippi is definitely the latter, and in the words of Vincent Van Gogh ‘Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow in it’. When we arrived in January 2019 I knew we had to […]
Way over yonder past the cotton field. Feeling as pretty as a peach exploring the South.
We march merrily in to March as Mardi Gras descends. Like a Moonpie sandwich between Alabama and Louisiana, Mississippi enjoys the historic festivities too. Before living in the Southern States, I had assumed that Mardi Gras was a one day do, it does translate to ‘Fat Tuesday’ after all. My myth is shattered. We attended […]
The next step in the path we are on.
The Coopers have disembarked in the United Stated of America. Hawaii was all I anticipated, beaches, palm trees and reefs, feel myself revisiting that place someday. Uncertain why we didn’t question the booking of the red eye flight to Seattle. Touched down on mainland US soil at minus 3 degrees. Seizing my puffer, my inner […]
Cracking out of the Canberra bubble
2018 has been a yoyo, the phases of highs and lows have interrupted one another like a senators challenge and objection . The ‘Capital conclusion’ is a distant memory…….. Canberra is not a city that I feel compelled to become invested in. I am emboldened by this experience, it has allowed me a certain level […]
Capital Conclusion
The hammer to Hay was longer than projected, a gratifying route of farm landscape, and tyres breaking endless mirages once more. Ultimately Hay is in excess of 850km. We draw some relived breaths before gasping sharply inwards apprehending there is an added 120km to go before we reach our final abode. The long awaited ‘Outback […]
Mr Zany to Bruce and Sheila
Wrapping the green turbo tent, we drop camp and tidily tie it to the roof of the VW, and vamoose Streaky. Bound Southwards in South Australia we skirt Port Augusta stopping very briefly for the 3 Ts: tampons,toothpaste,tea. An in-progress life skill to try to remember what I need to acquire from the supermarket without […]
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