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Garden City
We’re leaving soon to board the cruise ship, and will be offline for a few days, so here’s a quick wrap of our day yesterday. We walked for miles/hours, and ended up feeling like we’d completed a 12 hour rogaine, but we did see a lot. I’ll let the pictures do the talking … they […]
A Multi-Modal Expedition to the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia, in 11 Steps
But first – Mt Faber. The itinerary said “Get up early, and walk up to Mt Faber (short, steep uphill climb). What were we thinking! Splashing out on a all-day cable car pass seemed like a much better idea; saving an hour of walking meant an extra hour of sleeping. Around mid-morning we strolled down […]
Singapore For Free
Thanks to the Formula 1 Grand Prix being on in Singapore this weekend, hotel prices in Marina Bay and downtown were through the roof. AirBNB and the like are banned here so we couldn’t find a place with cooking facilities – not even a microwave. We settled for a hotel in Harbourfront, opposite VivoCity, which […]
Spaced Out: The Last Leg
28 March 2023, Los Angeles, USA – Buoyed by our success at navigating the LA Metro, we planned a longer, more complex excursion. We confidently added day passes onto our TAP cards, and set off for downtown LA – DTLA for short. We could see some snow on the Sierra Nevadas in the background, and […]
Carless in LA
27 March 2023, Los Angeles, USA – It was a late night arrival into LAX after flying half way across the country. We were relieved to check into a reasonably nice, quiet room in Hawthorne, not far from the airport. We woke this morning to blue skies – we seem to be dragging warm weather […]
Carriered Away
25 March 2023, Corpus Christi to Houston, USA – Before driving back to Houston for our final night in Texas, we paid a visit to the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier turned into a museum. We thought we could see everything in about 2 hours, but with 5 decks to explore, including the open flight […]
Bound For Boca Chica
24 March 2023, Houston to Corpus Christi “via” Boca Chica, USA – Yesterday we began our road trip of southern Texas; leaving Houston, we drove about 300 miles south, to Corpus Christi – or more precisely, Ingleside, on the northern outskirts. This was just a repositioning day, to set us up for today. Apart from […]
Orienteering At Last
22 March 2023, Houston, USA – We’re very aware that this blog is meant to chronicle our orienteering adventures, and that so far on this trip, after 6.5 weeks, we’ve done precisely no orienteering. Mostly because of a lack of suitable terrain, unless you fancy thickly vegetated swamps with no contour features but many alligators. […]
A Change of Pace
21 March 2023, Houston, USA, Galveston – Galveston, oh Galveston … the strains of Glenn Campbell’s hit song echoed in our minds as we headed to where Houstoners go on weekends. Apparently they don’t go there during the week – there was almost no traffic and very few people about, despite the fact that it’s […]
Ground Control to Major Tom
20 March 2023, Houston, USA, Johnson Space Center – Today we learned that Ground Control would never have directly communicated with Major Tom … but I’m getting ahead of myself. We were up bright and early for our much anticipated VIP Tour at Johnson Space Center – a behind-the-scenes tour for a group of just […]
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