Given that my good friend, photographer, announcer, and voice over artist Steve Ember, and I have linked our blogs, I want to restart my blogging adventure with a tip of the musical hat that will surely amuse.
I have just returned from the Northern Camino de Santiago (San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela, Spain). One of our number wanted to go to the evening mass at a local church because it was a special Gregorian chant mass. She asked, quite innocently, "Are the singers local or are they real Gregorians?"
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Great Australia Cattle Drive 2010
Friday 30 July to Sunday 29 August 2010
From Tourism South Australia: Hundreds of cattle and a swag of adventure stories will be told on one of the most evocative desert trails in Australia - the Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride with some of Australia's finest drovers and relive a very real part of Australian history by droving cattle through the Outback.
Six tours are available-- each four nights and five days and has its own highlights and camp village.
The base is on Anna Creek Station, giving you the rare opportunity to enter the world's largest cattle station, measuring some 5.5 million acres; roughly the size of Massachusetts. Close by is the tiny outback town of William Creek (population 10), which is a two hour drive east of Coober Pedy, the outback town famous for mining opals and where the majority of residents live underground.
Riders of all abilities are welcome. During the tours, participants return to a village of superior tent accommodation each evening and enjoy excellent facilities including a bar, a library, hot showers and flushing toilets, superb catering and most importantly the roaring campfire beneath a canopy of desert stars. Dinner is often accompanied by tales or music from the Outback.
International spots (that means spots for those us not in Australia) are limited so please book quickly to avoid missing out. Visit www.cattledrive.com.au for more information or your friendly travel agent blogger at www.ItsAFineDay.com
From Tourism South Australia: Hundreds of cattle and a swag of adventure stories will be told on one of the most evocative desert trails in Australia - the Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride with some of Australia's finest drovers and relive a very real part of Australian history by droving cattle through the Outback.
Six tours are available-- each four nights and five days and has its own highlights and camp village.
The base is on Anna Creek Station, giving you the rare opportunity to enter the world's largest cattle station, measuring some 5.5 million acres; roughly the size of Massachusetts. Close by is the tiny outback town of William Creek (population 10), which is a two hour drive east of Coober Pedy, the outback town famous for mining opals and where the majority of residents live underground.
Riders of all abilities are welcome. During the tours, participants return to a village of superior tent accommodation each evening and enjoy excellent facilities including a bar, a library, hot showers and flushing toilets, superb catering and most importantly the roaring campfire beneath a canopy of desert stars. Dinner is often accompanied by tales or music from the Outback.
International spots (that means spots for those us not in Australia) are limited so please book quickly to avoid missing out. Visit www.cattledrive.com.au for more information or your friendly travel agent blogger at www.ItsAFineDay.com
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Secure Flight: Stricter Rules for Boarding Aircraft
The TSA is getting ready to institute new rules. In the near future passengers will be required to give their birth date, sex, and their full name. The name on the ticket MUST match exactly the name on the photo ID you will be using, so you will need to be very careful when booking a reservation. The new program is called Secure Flight and takes responsibility for checking passenger names against "watch lists" from the airlines to the TSA. Only passengers who are cleared by the TSA will be given boarding passes.
The TSA says the program will improve the quality of the watch lists and will reduce the misidentification of innocent travellers who are mistakenly placed on the "no-fly" list. The new rules are set to begin first on domestic flights this year and on international flights late in the year. The TSA says the information will be held for no more than seven days. It will cost the airlines an additional $630 million to reprogram their reservations systems.
The TSA says the program will improve the quality of the watch lists and will reduce the misidentification of innocent travellers who are mistakenly placed on the "no-fly" list. The new rules are set to begin first on domestic flights this year and on international flights late in the year. The TSA says the information will be held for no more than seven days. It will cost the airlines an additional $630 million to reprogram their reservations systems.
See Denver by Bicycle
Denver has seen the success of cities in Europe renting bicycles and is going to be offering bicycles for rent on its streets. The city first tried it out during the Democratic Convention and was surprised that during the four days of the convention,some 26,000 miles were ridden by the bikes. This summer a permanent program will be put in place for use on the city's extensive network of bike paths. The stations will be accessible by tourists as they will be located near museums, hotels and the convention center. Denver is an ideal city for bikes as it has some 300 days of sunshine a year and beautiful scenery. Donors gave the city $1 million to setup the bike system and the city will use the Velib program, the same used in Paris. The bikes will be equipped with baskets that can carry up to 30 pounds.
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