Australia | Australia
Nov.06.2008
Wednesday - last day down under! I was pretty beat by this time and Jacki took me over to Botony Bay for a very short visit. At one point, I was about to put the visor down to block the sun and I saw this HUGE spider. I asked Jacki if it was fake and pointed tremulously. She looked, did a quick...
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Nov.06.2008
Tuesday –last full day! Jacki took me to the Blue Mountains and then over the top and down the other side. Fascinating history – 3 men (Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth) were the first people to find their way to the other side. Previously they had been completely impenetrable. It took over a year...
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Nov.04.2008
(continued from part 4) So I talked basically all day and apparently everyone liked me because even when they had the chance to hear Roger or Jennifer, quite a few of them still picked me! There were just about 300 people at the conference – super great group!
Saturday night we (the speakers) were...
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Nov.02.2008
Oh and by the way, I did fine on the flights with the cigarette thing. I was more antsy about being bored and cold than wanting a cigarette.
On Thursday, I met Roger Abrantes (he was speaking here as well). Very nice, very charming, very smart, hard to understand him sometimes because of his accent...
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Nov.02.2008
We finally landed at 6:30 am on Wednesday October 29 AU time/day. Already have no clue what day/time it is at home.
I truly misunderstood the whole customs thing. I thought because they told me at the airport in Toronto that the food I had with me - carrots, tuna, eggs - were all okay to bring into...
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Nov.02.2008
Board on the plane – check!
See Jennifer Messer 2 rows in front of me (Jennifer is also speaking at the APDT AU conference and I thought she was taking a different itinerary. I was thrilled to see her on the plane because that meant that we could travel together on the 2nd leg of the trip. It...
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Oct.29.2008
Ah...where to start...I am in Australia now and while this blog will not directly be related to dogs, I wanted to share my experiences with you. To start, I am afraid of long distance travel. So why am I in Australia? I don't know. I was asked to speak at the APDT (Association of Pet Dog Trainers...
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Oct.27.2008
A reader of Plunder sends me the following story from Australia. As with the Incas (human sacrifice), the Afghans (Burqua), the Somali (female sexual "mutilation"), also the first Australians have been accused of terrible violations. the usual strategy to plunder resources and to dump...
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Feb.13.2008
My desire to believe there is progress in human history is strong. Clearly, there is change: more people, more stuff, more (or at least different) dangers, more (or at least different) pleasures. But can anything be said with certainty, anything more than "Things change"?
Yes, amidst...
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