Day 21.75 - Stop Me Before I Blog Again

As Rene and I met on Sunday, here are a few random thoughts as I went to bed June 1, that started at 6:00 a.m. in Perth, West Australia and ended in Maui some 36 hours later...

After about 1,000 kilometers of driving, some part of it actually on course, I got the hang of driving on the "other" side of the road on the "other" side of the car, and having the turn signals and wind screen wipers reversed.  My anecdotal evidence?  I rent the Jeep and return to the terminal to pick up Rene.  A little jet lagged, a little on auto pilot.  And the first street I turn on?  I got on the left side of the road.  Really.  Then, to signal my turn back to the correct lane, I promptly turn on the wind shield wipers. 

A tourist.  In his own country.

A funny thing happened on the way to re-patriating myself Saturday night as I was watching TV in my room in Perth Saturday night.  I wanted to check a sport other than Footy or the soccer team going to the World Cup, so I caught up on the NHL Western Conference Finals and the NBA Eastern Conference Finals with a timely and well done report from...

Al Jazeera TV.

We'll know if the NSA is reviewing everything if they review this blog and I get stopped by the TSA every time instead of about every other time I go through security.

I miss being in Australia already and am already planning when I return and where I'll go.

Random pictures with random comments.  I promise to post the pictures from the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb by June 13.  And then will take my seat and shut up.

I wish I had taken this picture of the aurora australis.  Tasmania is one of the places I plan to see when I go back.  This is taken from the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, May 31, 2014, my last full day in Australia.  So, for some reason, I think it is appropriate to include this picture.  You figure out why.  Anyway, you can see the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud (lower in the sky, nearer to the red aurora) to the right of the satellite station and get an idea of how bright the bulge of the Milky Way appeared out in Apollo Bay, Yulura, and Yallingup.

Sunrise over the winery at Cape Lodge, Yallingup, Western Australia.

Warming my feet in the Indian Ocean at Moses Rock, Yallingup, WA.

Sign on Hay Street in Perth, WA.  Maybe I wasn't all that far from home.

At the Blue Mountains.

The fearless leader/follower at the base of Uluru.

A drying waterfall at Uluru.

Tastes like...koala poo smells.

One ticked off cocoworry.

Always asking for spare change at the airports.  In Melbourne, it is for guide dogs.  Close enough to service dogs.  They got all of our change.

Not my favorite bar in Melbourne, guess which one that one was, but my second favorite sign next to Hells Upstairs.

Cheers!