Tag: Australia

San Fran to Brizzy

International Airport welcome flag
Five months ago on our first return home from Down Under.

It’s a small world after all.

World Famous Disney song

By the time we land in Brisbane it will be Tuesday, June 11, 730 PM at home.

What’s fun to contemplate is that when we land in Brisbane, it’ll be June 12, 5:30 AM.

Note: Writing this a couple hours before we land. Technically, 5:30 PM June 11. So Today’s blogs are done. Will add a few pics from the Brizzy arrival before getting our rental car. Tomorrow’s blogs will pick up at the rental car counter.

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Same day, different hemisphere, home

Sunset from jet
The window shade has been closed almost the entire trip. Same on the other two flights as well.
6-second. video: The start of something special.
Sunset from jet
The show lasts longer than most people expect. Kept my eyes on the sky. Most window shades the past 30 hours have been closed.
9-second video: Lyft ride home from MCO.
40-second video: Never gets old. Thank you Walt Disney World.

Thank you for everything.

dad

Life is not all rainbows and puppy dogs.

But it is life.

If you don’t expect more than some basic human needs, you can become astonishingly grateful.

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Fly home from Australia, home

Kangaroos
Our first Joey in the pouch sighting. Never expected this on our walk. Rumors were that dusk provided campus Kangaroo-sighting opportunities.
Kangaroos
Without even trying, we spotted four five Kangaroos.
Kangaroos
Three others. We suspect this mother had “twins”.

Magic never happens when you want it to. Magic happens when it’s ready to surprise and delight you.

dad

We all agreed a walking trip around the campus perimeter would be a good contextual framework for what will probably be weekly FaceTime calls.

With multiple options for the remaining two hours together, we chose to walk.

Little did we know the Universe was looking down on us and it Graced us with 16 kangaroo sightings between breakfast and dinner, starting with the three at Lookout Cafe.

Prior to our final day together, we had only seen the Reds and Greys at the Australian Zoo.

How do you score such an overwhelmingly wonderful experience?

Karma is the only way i can explain it.

Thank you Universe.

See you later, Australia.

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Australia Day 22, home

Mountains
L-R: Reynolds and Clements. From Oberlin summit. Jackson is the distant middle mountain, one of only six Glacier peaks over 10,000’.

i want and need prioritized priorities as much as my next breath.

dad

Not until you are fed up with your private life-at-home history and your home-life’s present will you be ready to burn the ships and move forward at home, never looking back.

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Australia Day 21, home

colorful painted wall
Sunshine Coast Health precinct.
4-second video: McDonald’s and Australian flags.

Be mindful of unexpected changes in yourself and others. Work like a champion to over-focus on solving whatever comes your way.

dad

They say, “People change” and “People never change”.

Both are true.

Be mindful.

Happy present moment.

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