It’s just gone eight in the morning, and already I have a light sweat and turned the air conditioning on. (When we go full-time RVing on the road, as opposed to out of a base camp, we’re going to need to travel in circles where it never gets above 80 degrees…that is, if we do our preferred method of dry camping with no hookups!)

I hear that exceptionally hot weather is coming in from the Bay Area and that there will be record-breaking temperatures.

I’m melting at the prospect.

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There wasn't much to do in school yesterday, so me, a couple of classmates, and my teacher went to check out an abandoned building here in Vingåker.


There be nine shots of the interior, right here: http://sofiaalexandra.deviantart.com/gallery/#Urban-exploring-and-decay

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Synop:

For Better. For Worse

Lucy stole her friend Rose’s ‘happily ever after’ because she wanted Rose’s husband and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress.

As Peter’s interest diminishes and Lucy’s domestic responsibilities increase, Lucy wonders if the ‘happily ever after’ is all a big con. Without a maternal bone in her body she’s always playing catch-up in a game where she doesn’t know the rules and can’t understand what there is to win anyway.

Rose doesn’t have the vocabulary to describe Lucy, she doesn’t like using expletives. A devoted single mum, she fills her life with labeling school uniforms, organic vegetables and car runs for extracurricular activities. She’s an exemplary mother but the boys seem to need her less and less and without them she wonders what she amounts to. Her friends are concerned that her life is devoid of passion, romance or even plans for the future.

They both envy Connie, who is happily married and is effortlessly balancing two kids with a fulfilling career until, that is, a dangerous old flame flickers back into view at the school gates and threatens her marriage.

All three of these women need more than blind belief to negotiate their way through modern life. Things can only get better…or worse. Or better?

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We’re doing our post-trip supplies run. The rig needs gas and we need to pick up my bike from storage, so we’re combining that into a dual little-and-large gas station visit, as well as Target, Food 4 Less, Staples and Safeway. We got a roast chicken and nommed happily on that in the parking lot.

It’s a hot, steamy day! I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that there’s thunder a-brewing.

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pictures from computer at the library




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Last week, Don and I made the trek up to the Redding area. Here are some of the things we learned.

With tongue firmly in cheek:

1. If you don’t properly secure your tote full of small, loose items, it will fall over and the lid will fall off. All the small, loose items will fall out and the cats will be very entertained. You will create new and interesting ways of tying stuff down.

   The plastic, open-topped bucket that typically sits on your seat is no match for a winding mountain pass. It can handle going straight up a freeway, but not endless S-curves. You will be picking up maps and other junk for some while.

   If you do not lock the fridge, the first time you might get lucky. The second, time, however, the door will swing open in transit, spilling soda cans and sauce bottles across the aisle, there to roll around merrily. (Are we detecting a theme here?)

   This is actually quite exciting.

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milk (1 gal)
2 p Hamburger Meat
Soda Dr Pepper
1 Buns (Cheap)
Cookies


Found at SaveMart today. Hope they got all their groceries...

I go to the town of Vermont alot. It's a quiet picturesque little place anyway. The town is pretty much a ruin on it's own. The downtown has very few open businesses anymore. The library and post office are still open at least. Mostly I go to the old cemetery looking for clues to my past. My Quaker ancestors came here from Eastern Ohio to found Vermont and nearby Ipava (once called Pleasantville)in about 1820. Paved but not striped roads and gravel roads run out from town in all directions, connecting farms that used to be on dirt roads. Many of these farms have long since been abandoned as even in the 1800's, Vermont was moving toward more of an industrial base with a foundry (still operating) and several flouring and saw mills. When the industry left and went to the bigger cities in the mid 1900's, it took much of the population with it. What was left were the farmers and small merchants and the town continued to struggle on. Down one of the blacktop roads (Il Rt. 2 actually)sits what's left of a small farm. The fields are now overgrown and unused and the house is sinking slowly into the forest. I shot this place last spring. While I was there, the neighbors stopped by to ask if I was the owner. Apparently no one knows who owns it but several would like to buy it.



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Enjoy,

Wander

Absolutely lovely.

MMMM after the beach weekend I had a work conference in Sydney. A wonderful city. It's hard being back at work




Darling Harbour

and more here if interested:

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Working backwards here. Hopefully the next post will be my walk along the Thames on the Monday after the London Convention.
After flying back to Adelaide I worked a day and a bit and went away for the weekend. Lots of sleep, and the stereotyped "long walks along the beach", coffee, reading and general relaxing.
I have had the Canon digital SLR for nearly a year now and enjoy mucking around with it. Here a couple of photographs to share







more can be seen here

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included is a photograph from near the end of the River Murray, one of Australia's longest and biggest rivers. Adelaide relies on it for a lot of water. The level is a least six feet lower that usual, whatever usual is, and partly explains all the requests for rain and lots of it.

Another Rabun County image (though this was actually taken in Franklin, NC and refers to Clay County, I think)

Зубы его сточились,
Уже нет сил перемалывать плоть земли
Кровь иссохла в жилах,
И служители не приносят ему свежих подношений...

Teeth are grinded,
He's sick and tired of grinding the flesh of the earth.
Blood exsiccated in veins,
And the servitors never fetch fresh alterage...



Под катом больше размером.

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As inkognitoh said when she saw the picture up at flickr, "I had him down as a postage stamp man myself."

I saw this roadside sign up in Rabun County and actually did a U-Turn on the highway to go back and take the picture.

I am in Windermere and found an Internet Cafe and this place is so beautiful that I am not going to spend my time updating my journal. This is just a quick note to say that I am well and having a great trip. I have booked my flight to London and I fly out at about 2.45pm on the 30th which gives me plenty of time at Heathrow in case of problems. I leave here early tomorrow morning to get to Glasgow to join the tour group. Only slightly over two weeks left on my trip and it has gone so fast.

I did major surgery on the toilet. If you're interested, I photographed the operation.

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