Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 04:13:39 -0600 Greetings everyone! I hope you are all doing well this winter. I heard the States have been having some cold weather. I am so happy to be experiencing summer in the southern hemisphere! I have a couple of more weeks in South Africa and I figured it was time for a …
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: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 06:06:16 -0600 To My Family and Friends, I have just returned back to Cape Town from a trip on the Garden Route. As I had mentioned in a previous newsletter, the drive takes you across the southern part of the country/continent along the Indian Ocean. I was expecting amazing views and pristine beaches. …
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Subject: Mauritius, Mauritius! Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:14:34 -0600 Mark Twain wrote that first God created Mauritius and then he created Heaven modeled after the island paradise. I just arrived in Perth, Australia at 2am this morning, but I will be sharing with you today my experiences about the third world island paradise known as Mauritius. I …
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Subject: Quokkas and Black Swans Down Under Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:14:09 -0600 Greetings from the land Down Under! You know, I must say that traveling can certainly restore ones faith in the human race. There I was a week ago, sitting in the Mauritius International Airport (yes, every flight in is international) feeling horribly lonely …
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Subject: Wine, Sheep and Tingles… Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:42:41 -0600 I have just returned to Perth from a bus trip tour of southwest Western Australia. It was an organized tour with a guide. I got to see so much of this vast and beautiful state…and we only covered 1400 kilometres in four days …
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: Tassie Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:34:56 -0600 Greetings to all my friends and family from the Australian state of Tasmania. The Australians call it “Tassie”. It is a small island state south of the actual mainland of Australia. From Melbourne to Hobart (Tassie’s capitol) is about a 50 minute flight. The island is …
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Tea With a Stranger Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 18:11:58 -0600 I met an elderly woman on my flight from Melbourne to Tasmania a few weeks ago. I would guess her age was around 85 years old. But it often hard for me to tell after the age of 70 because your looks start to …
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The Great Ocean Road Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:21:35 -0600 Greetings from the Journey Down Under, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I am still in Melbourne, Australia and enjoying the last vestiges of Indian Summer here. Today and tomorrow will be a high 33-35 degrees Celsius (in the 90’s) and then it will be cooling …
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Subject: One Night in Bangkok Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:37:27 -0600 There was a song that came out in the late 1970’s that some of you may remember. It was a one hit wonder and the chorus went something like this: “One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble…” Well, I am here …
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: Paradise Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:48:00 -0600 After an hour flight south of Bangkok and a two hour boat ride further south, I arrived to monsoon rains on the remote island of Ko Lanta (not too far north of Malaysia). My first two days were the loneliest of my journey thus far. …
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