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From my travel journal: Friday 1 April 2011 (again!), 4.45 pm
Fort Mason Youth Hostel, San Francisco. This has been a really long day! I managed to get a couple of hours’ sleep on the plane, but I never sleep well in vehicles at the best of times, and it was a pretty bumpy trip. It seemed like every time I started to drift off we’d…
Is it even worth giving this entry a title?
Just when I thought I’d seen every possible weirdness that DD could throw up, now all my entry titles have disappeared, to be replaced by something like “Test 1287182”. I bet poor Steve is wishing he’d never started this server move. DancingButterfly (who I’m guessing is Australian – s/he has a friends-only diary, so I’m…
And oh Australia too!
Well, oh Sydney, at least. I just got an email from Littlemave offering me a bed for the night I’ll be in Sydney. Yayyy!!!! (Sorry for the multiple posts today, but suddenly everything is starting to come together, and it’s all getting very exciting!)
Robinson Crusoe caught!
One of the books I released at Northlands in January, a double-sided book of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson was caught today. I was initially amused by the finder’s comment that the writing was “old-fashioned” (surprising that, considering Robinson Crusoe was written in 1719!), but according to her profile, she’s only 8, so…
Ballycumber here I come!
Too late to back out now, I’ve booked my flights. Next March I’ll be off to Ireland, for a couple of weeks road-tripping with Lytteltonwitch, followed by the 2012 Bookcrossing Convention in Dublin and a visit to Ballycumber, spiritual home of the bookcrossing mascot. And hopefully, to catch up with a few Australian friends along…
Visual depictions of the aftershocks
I liked this depiction of the number of aftershocks from The Press this afternoon: Or there’s the animated version.