Travel
Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods.
I could watch this YouTube channel all night long
Aircraft doing hard time
Feels good to be back, standing outside the Gold Coast Qantas Club with a bunch of other members moments before it opens, as each new person who would imagine the lounge to be open by now, stridently - almost aggressively - walks past the congregation, gets to the automatic sliding door and their face sinks as it doesn’t open.
It’s been nine months, I miss you Qantas frequent flyers, you bring me joy.
Parking lot
Today’s office: Byron Bay Airport.
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Sunset over what we call Summer Bay, despite the map saying Palm Beach.
One of my oddest hobbies is cloud watching. I can spend whole flights just staring out the window. These are some odd clouds over Scott’s Head this afternoon. I probably should read a book on clouds so I can give a better descriptor other than “clouds”.
Happy 100 year birthday, Qantas
Which country do you think this photo was made in?
9 hours in Tokyo, November 2019
One year ago today, Harley and I spent nine hours in Tokyo. Shortest Contiki tour ever. Favourite photos are the bloke squatting and the other bloke selling electronics.
Six years ago, on this day in 2014, I saw the most and best American thing outside the White House, with my own eyes. Nothing that happens in America today will trump this performance.
This is why we will never want to stop travelling
“The human condition is designed for travel. Our brains evolved to geotag memories, initially to find or avoid predators, food and mates. When we recall memories of people, songs, dates or events, they are returned with their associated locations. While we normalise our oft-visited locations, it’s the novel locations that remain highlighted along with the travel experiences we had there which re-invigorate our interest in business and recreational travel. This is why we will never want to stop travelling.”
— Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, aka the Qantas A380 pilot from that Singapore incident, in Traveller
Mask fashion > mask wearing?
I think I’m the only person on the Canberra Airport free wifi network right now - I haven’t seen anyone else in the airport - because I just uploaded a 12gb 4K video to Dropbox so quickly that I’m not even sure how long it took. Maybe 3-5 minutes?!