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Today’s agenda

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Bunbury, Western Australia

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Job done!

No cup, no worries – men in shorts

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Fights + fans + flags + flasks = footie

Aussie rules football

Freemantle dockers vs. north Melbourne kangaroos

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Dockers take the win – let’s go freo!!!!!

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When bunnies go bad

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Even the bunnies are badass here.

Fremantle, Australia

Freestyle in Fremantle

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Heaps of fun in freemantle – charge up the side of a hill, prison break, artist’s market, outdoor cafe, tea breaks, favorite fairy store, picking up some sort of accent that sounds more Asian/Czech than Australian.

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I love the smell of ocean in the morning

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relaxing way to ease into the day, with a stroll by the Indian Ocean, nothing to do but feel the breeze, take in the salt air, feel the winter sun on my face, keep a sharp eye out for shark fins, in Western Australia. 

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If it’s Tuesday this must be……..Monday?

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imageAfter leaving my house on Sunday at 2 pm, and numerous flights, layovers, and connections, I have somehow arrived at my destination down under And it is Tuesday at 2 pm. After traveling through various time zones and crossing the equator and international dateline, and losing a day and going ahead 13 1/2 hours in my new time zone,  here is how I have made sense of it in mathematical form: if e equals mc2 plus add in 1 day plus 13.5 hours plus 2 flight delays and 1 early arrival then I have arrived, though I am very unsure of what time it is. Am I here yet?

head south. hit the equator. keep heading south. you’ll get there at some point.

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leaving tomorrow to spend some time down under in australia.

 i plan to enjoy a bit of r & r.

 i’ll be posting in between adventures. 

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i didn’t know sheep could fly

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as we waited at the gate for our plane, i was amazed by the new ‘system’ in place. i couldn’t quite get a handle on it at first, didn’t know exactly where to sit, where to line up, when, etc.

 this is how the gate agent explained it to me. ‘we’ll call you by your letter and you stand in a single file line by the pole that has your number on it that goes with your letter that we’ll call and then we’ll call you by letter and number together and and we’ll know you by that.  there are approximately 100 small strips of spaces with seats with numbers.’ being the black sheep that i am, i waited until the last possible second to get into line in my assigned number/letter place, and was met with gate agent glares. i think some of the other sheep may have been upset with me too. 

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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader – occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

 

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Albert Einstein

 

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal

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met this big guy in a honky tonk in nashville….

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Imagethink he may be from out of town too.

this is know (now) about nashville.

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1. the bullets & mullets store

2. cowboy church

3. dukes of hazard museum

4. goo goo clusters

5. honky tonks

6. live radio shows

7. southern stack breakfast – slow smoked pulled pork, sweet potato pancakes, fried apples, fried egg, home fries (pile it up, pour syrup on top, and go)

8. everything tastes better in a mason jar

9. full sized replica of the parthenon in the middle of a city park

10. washtub, washboard, spoons and other random household items band

11. mosey-ing is a speed you amble through life with

12. speak-easy’s still exist 

 each of these are part of life there and i love them all.

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