Friday, October 28th - Departed Leeton around 10:30am and headed northeast towards Dubbo. The road was a two lane highway with a speed limit of 110 km/h with few cars on it, that went fairly straight through a savanna of eucalypts and farmland, punctuated with small freestanding mountainlets.


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   In Theory on Monday I'd take the train to Albury, 7.5 hours, and then drive from there to Euston (5.5 hours), and that would be that. Not so simple it turns out ( Read more... )

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Sunday, September 10th - Let us begin with the traditional in-flight movie reviews:

17 Again - The fact that I watched this movie at all and moreover kept watching it is a testament to the poor movie selection on the Latam Chile to New Zealand flight. That and the movie it was supposedly similar to "Big" had been a good classic, but hey it had ( Read more... )

Friday, September 8th [cont] - shortly after where the previous entry left off i went to go have another extremely lackluster lunch in the dining area. On the way i ran into my friend, a Chilean beekeeper and phd student named Isadora whom I'd met the other day, and she was headed to lunch offsite! I gladly went with her. We proceeded about two ( Read more... )

Okay you'd think I'd know better by now about trying to write an LJ entry directly in the browser on my phone, having had a similar thing happened too many times already. But i thought it would be safe if i was in a place with a stable internet connection, so I was writing an entry here in the conference center during presentations i wasn't ( Read more... )

So starting last night actually, just after i got in bed i received a text from the biosecurity department of New South Wales asking if I was still interested in working for them and if so to please fill out the application linked in an email they sent me August 21st -- I'd been anxiously awaiting that email amd had missed it! But the application ( Read more... )

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Monday, September 4th, Santiago, Chile - having had terrible sleep or lack thereof on the overnight flight, after breakfast i slept till 11:30 or so. Then my friend Doug came over ( Read more... )

Sunday, September 3rd - for once we didn't have to get up early .. but we still got up out of habit around 6:30. Power was out at the hotel. Packed our things, had breakfast, Cristina made more sandwiches -- for our lunch and to eat on the plane, amd she's so kind hearted, she made a sandwich for our driver too ( Read more... )