One day at a time

Plans are already well advanced for a couple of trips, one later this year and another early next year. The first one will be later in October and will be a road trip to Regional Victoria - up the Murray River to Mildura - over a long weekend, my best mate and I will drive to the edge of Victoria and then follow the river back into the state. The other trip is planned for March next year, when I will be flying over to the UK to see family and friends again. I am looking forward to this trip for various reasons, firstly because I will get a chance to see my family and friends again, but also because I will be travelling business class for at least half the journay and will hopefully arrive in good shape at both ends of the trip. Early days yet, but I am also thinking about going to America some time in 2007 and visit a number of cities, such as Vancouver, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco.

This is the first message that I have sent from my Hotmail account from my phone.

Movie World - Superman Escape Ride Originally uploaded by PD Blog Pics . 0-100m in 2 seconds - the latest ride to open at Movie World on the Gold Coast

Cat Woman - Movie World - Gold Coast Originally uploaded by PD Blog Pics . Part of the parade at the Movie World theme park on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia

Is it just me or does there seem to be a lot of terrible things happening at the moment? The voilence in the Middle East and now the terror threat to flights from the UK - will this stuff ever stop? I don't know who is to blame - in fact both sides of any war have no moral ground to stand on when it is stained with blood. The sad fact is that I know this will touch Australia some day in some way - I don't know where or when, but one day there will be something terrible here and that will be a very sad day. Maybe we should worry about global warming - the planet would be better off without us. Not a very cheerful entry, but I am in that kind of mood.

Spent the long weekend of Queens Birthday on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Including one day enjoying the delights of the Movie World - although there was no way in the world that anyone was going to get me on the Superman Escape ride!

Just your typical tropical pacific paradise ! Posted by Picasa