Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
We made it safely back to Sydney on Saturday morning. Our departure wasn’t without dramas – our plane was delayed over six hours on the tarmac on Thursday night and we didn’t fly out until Friday night. More on this in another post… but on the positive side, I got my upgrade to business class, [...]
It’s been another super-awesome year for Passports with Purpose! We set ourselves a goal of raising $50,000 for LAFTI to build a village in India for people from the Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste. We’ve raised $52,000 so far! That is thanks to the collective efforts of the founders, participating bloggers, sponsors and everyone who has bought [...]
Airship Ventures is giving away a flight for two aboard its zeppelin Eureka, as part of its sponsorship with Passports with Purpose. For your chance to win, buy a $10 raffle ticket at passportswithpurpose.com/donate before midnight (US West Coast time) on December 13. The funds will be used to construct a village in India for [...]
I find myself in the decidedly odd position of agreeing with Ron Paul, the maverick Republican congressman from Texas. (Odd for me as a bonafide liberal, that is). Really can we please all calm down over this whole WikiLeaks thing? The knives are out for Julian Assange of WikiLeaks over these leaked diplomatic cables. Mike [...]
The historic Fairmont Olympic in Seattle has donated an overnight stay in its executive suite as a prize in this year’s Passports with Purpose. Read all about the hotel and the prize in my previous post – or head directly over to the Passports with Purpose donation page for your chance to win. Raffle tickets [...]
Day 29 in my month-long accountability project. Novel: None. Exercise: None. Other achievements: I organized the house post-garage sale in preparation for the landlady coming this afternoon to sign a lease with the new tenants. I sold the bathroom scales and some chairs. I went to the hospital for my ultrasound and obstetrician appointments and [...]
In two weeks’ time I will be flying from the United States to Australia – we’re moving home. If I get asked to go through the full-body scanner – whether it’s the millimetre-wave machine or the back-scatter machine – I will be opting out. I won’t be doing this as a form of protest. I [...]
Call me suspicious, but I think the TSA has just made a rather brilliant PR move. Today is the day before Thanksgiving in the United States. It was also the day nominated for “National Opt-Out Day” when travellers across America would protest the TSA’s new security measures and opt for an enhanced pat-down rather than [...]
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