It was the day before my birthday and I was on a slow train to New York – travelling through the folds of the Appalachian Mountains and for a while, following the course of the Juniata River.
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The Year That Was
I’m back – back from the nonblogging wilderness, back to reality, back from the trip of a lifetime to Canada and the USA. This was going to be a travel themed blog post( and it still is in part) but now will be more of a summary of 2023. Highlight upon highlight- I know, it’s annoying. My best of in travel, culture, reading, and anything else I can think of.
Continue reading “The Year That Was”Summer of ‘79
Summer holidays means putting on the Golden Breed T-shirt and the wrap around batik skirt. Summer means cuddling up to a blonde bloke with scraggy hair who smells of surf and weed and sex. We sit around a campfire on the back beach. Someone burps in the dark.