My husband is just getting on the same plane I caught a week ago to come home. He’s been packing, returning the rental car, eating dinner at the airport and chatting to me via Google Talk. I’ve been chatting to him while upgrading my blog and organising photos to show you. I took a little […]
My life & thoughts
Home from Californ-eye-ay
I’m home! It looks like I’ve brought the weather with me too. It was absolutely perfect the whole time we were in the States and now it’s close to that here… Sunny, cool breeze, just the way I like it (even though it’s supposed to be summer!). I’d love to share some of my trip […]
The allure of Starbucks
Starbucks isn’t quite as popular in Australia as it is in America. Possibly because there aren’t as many of them, but I think it’s because you can find good and/or better coffee at lots of places. I haven’t had too many non-Starbucks coffees in America. One was at the restaurant we went to for our […]
Touchdown in San Francisco!
We arrived in San Francisco at about 10:30am Wednesday morning. We had our photographs and fingerprints taken at customs, got picked up by a town car and headed to Mountain View. Our apartment wasn’t going to be ready until 4 and neither were our keys, which we found out when we tried to pick them […]
Birds’ sense of direction
I saw the headline Study suggests birds can truly navigate. It cracked me up. It’s cool that birds can navigate over 1000 kilometers, but when they fly into church in the middle of the service they can’t find their way back out… and poop on the projector screen.
San Francisco Shopping
Californians, help! What’s the go with sales taxes and levies in California? Are they included in the price you see on the shelf? It might sound like a silly question, but you see Australia has a 10% GST, which is on most non-essential items and a few essential ones too. Sometimes the sales receipt tells […]