1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii - yes, if changing flights at the airport counts
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland.
8. Climbed a mountain. - sortof; the last 200 metres or so
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumping ( Read more... )

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It's proving to be an interesting experience. The downside is the repetitive strain from turning so many pages, the raising of the dust of disintegrating newspaper clippings and that so much of the stuff hadn't been needed for years. The upside is coming across the occasional treasure and the on-going connection with mum's interests. There was a ( Read more... )

My father and I were on our way to Israel, and had to change flights in Tehran. Rather than just spending however-many hours in transit at the airport, we decided to spend a week in the country itself. Three days/nights in Tehran, two in Shiraz and two in Isfahan. It was December 1976. I was 16 and it was the first stop on my first overseas trip.

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When writing my GUFF platform, back in 1986, I mentioned that I like "making good use of metropolitan transit systems as a way of discovering cities."

In my time I have been on these Metro systems:


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I'm not a seasoned traveller but here's a map of countries I've visited:


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This is copied from a Trufen mailing list post. Names have been changed to LJ handles or first names.

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