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Getting to Boston from Ft Lauderdale turned out to be a challenge. Four changes of flights and a change of airline and airport, due to cancellations; but mainly a lot of airport waiting. Then, collecting the rental car in Boston took over an hour.

In Boston, the tunnel to our hotel was closed. Yet, both TomTom and the in-car GPS kept taking us back to it. Anyway, after a long and trying day we got there, still in time for dinner at a colourful Mexican restaurant across the road.

Refreshed the following morning, we drove up to Salem before coming back into town.

You can see a lot more of Boston, from our last trip there in 2007,
by clicking on the pictures above

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South Korea & China

March 2016

South Korea

I hadn't written up our trip to South Korea (in March 2016) but Google Pictures gratuitously put an album together from my Cloud library so I was motivated to add a few words and put it up on my Website. Normally I would use selected images to illustrate observations about a place visited. This is the other way about, with a lot of images that I may not have otherwise chosen. It requires you to go to the link below if you want to see pictures. You may find some of the images interesting and want to by-pass others quickly. Your choice. In addition to the album, Google generated a short movie in an 8mm style - complete with dust flecks. You can see this by clicking the last frame, at the bottom of the album.

A few days in Seoul were followed by travels around the country, helpfully illustrated in the album by Google generated maps: a picture is worth a thousand words; ending back in Seoul before spending a few days in China on the way home to OZ.

Fiction, Recollections & News

My car owning philosophies

I have owned well over a dozen cars and driven a lot more, in numerous countries.

It seems to me that there are a limited number of reasons to own a car:

As a tool of business where time is critical and tools of trade need to be carried about in a dedicated vehicle.
Convenient, fast, comfortable, transport particularly to difficult to get to places not easily accessible by public transport or cabs or in unpleasant weather conditions, when cabs may be hard to get.
Like clothes, a car can help define you to others and perhaps to yourself, as an extension of your personality.
A car can make a statement about one's success in life.
A car can be a work of art, something re-created as an aesthetic project.
A car is essential equipment in the sport of driving.

Opinions and Philosophy

Now we are vaccinated

Now that every adult in my extended family is vaccinated is my family safe from Covid-19?

The short answer is no. No vaccine is 100% effective. Yet, we are a lot safer.

It's a bit hard to work it out in Australia as, although we are familiar with lockdowns, we have so little experience with the actual disease.

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