The monsoons have arrived and cooled things down and on this particular Saturday they had abated and the sun shining and I thought time to get out for a short little adventure. I chose the Dhauli Hill 8 klms from Bhubaneswar where I am living. It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it and has major Edicts of Ashoka engraved on a mass of rock by the side of the road leading to the sum

Went to McDonalds for breakfast and then drove to Lake Havasu which was only a slight detour and as London Bridge was there we thought we would go and see it. It was a beautiful area lovely blue lake palm trees and golden sand...you get the picture. Walked along the edge of the lake to the bridge and back again and then spent an hour cooling off in the lake as the temperature was 44oC. Drove to

For the people in Mile Torch Festival was kind of routinely ritual one was obliged to walk the street with fire I guessed. So everyone brought a rod of rattanalmost 2 meters long roaming the street with fire held high but once the heat got too hot while the fireline descend their torch would laid low like a tail trail behind finally it would be abandoned by the roadside as there was no wa

Quibei was famous for its karst landforms and Puzhehei lived the reputation. The last time I had been inside the site was 11 years ago and the village was almost deserted but now...the Puzhehei village had been expanded and many guesthouses spouted provided better accommodation. It would be a nice place to hang out only not on any holiday or festival time. Now you could see all those funfair

On Friday we caught the Amtrak express train from New York to Washington DC. The train was a very comfortable way to travel and the guy announcing information on the train was hilarious. He was probably over 60 years old but he spoke like a 20 year old American DJ.As was New York Washington DC is very different than we expected.On Friday we checked into our very comfortable Hotel and then set of

Made a brief detour on my way to the east coast to visit another poker player I know from twoplustwo. Not really sure what to write here as we pretty much just played poker solidly for 3 days including one 12 hour session at the local Indian Casino. Either way I got on really great with Josh and it was nice to have unlimited computer access for a couple of days to catch up on things like this bl

I loved this photo of Harry Truman in the yard out front of his presidential library in Independence Missouri and Jim recreated it fifty years later. His photos are amazing

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Straight from Josh's house I went to visit another group of 2p2ers i.e. members of the twoplustwo forum in Columbus. I only actually stayed in Columbus for 1 night and then we went on a 3 day trip to Andy's lakehouse on Lake Tappan a couple of hours east of Columbus. The trip was really fun the weather was awesome so we just chilled in the sun with beers and went swimming in the lake which

Oh non pas un bus de nuitApres avoir fini mon blog vendredi soir j'ai repris mon sac et saute dans un autorickshaw pour la gare d'Udaipur. Je demande au guichet de quel quai part mon train pour Ahmedabad. Le train est annule. QuoiQuand est le prochain Le train est annule jusqu'au 20 aout. Ca c'est de l'annulation Qu'estce que je fais alors pour avoir le train de 5h25 qui part d'Ahm

Originally I was gonna stay with another 2p2er here but thanks to an evil GPS which sent us in the wrong direction I ended up missing my bus and the timing didn't work out in the end. Instead I arrived at 5am and made my way to the hostel which was small and shabby but very cosy and friendly. There weren't any staff there so I just curled up on a couch in the common room and slept until about 1

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I've been at Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society for almost two weeks. I'd say that on average I spend 75 of my day cleaning things for animals and 25 of my day preparing food and medicine for animal. There is also a tiny bit of filling out forms. It is pretty awesome and I wish I had more time here.MARS takes in all kinds of birds and small mammals for rehabilitation. They kindof speciali

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Dear Family and FriendsI am starting up my blog again before we leave for Maela Refugee Camp on the border of Thailand and Burma. This time I will be travelling with my 15 year old daughter Abbey Lindley my colleague Kylie Martin from Sunshine Coast Childrens Development Centre and also Dr Norli a dentist from Cairns. We will leave on Wednesday 18th August and fly to Bangkok and straight thr

We flew into Delhi and got picked up and taken to our hotel and first reaction this is the worst traffic we have ever seen It was absolute chaos with cows everywhere but we made it in one bit to Hotel Perfect. Maybe not perfect but definitely nowhere near the worst we have ever stayed The hotel was located by a road full of shops and market stalls so we had a wander around and had our first In

Well unsurprisingly enough NYC was amazing. There's just so much to see and do at any time of day or night. I arrived on Sunday morning and just spent the whole day wandering around Central Park. There was SO much going on including street artists buskers baseball games a shakespeare play fundraising events a huge stage with fairly big bands playing free concerts and a roller disco. The h

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Hello allJust a quick one as the internet here is slow an expensive. We're in Fiji enjoying the weather when not completely being boiled alive we flew into Nadi and then went to Mana island for 5 nights Kuata island for 3 nights and now just arrived in Nacula island.We'll be here for 3 days and hope to go to the Blue Lagoon of the film and some caves or other as well as the Long Beach wh

So Summer Camp is now officially over thank god Looking back it was quite fun but a lot of work and if I ever hear those songs again I think I may have to kill somebody This was the last week so ofcourse everyone was running around like headless chickens trying to get the kids ready for Friday's performance infront of their parents we had to spend the last 2 hours showing the parent's what