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THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013

THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
A road journey from LOS ANGELES to CARMEL
DECEMBER 27, 2012 - JANUARY 3, 2013

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'You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming.'
It's another beautiful Autumn day! When I went to bed last night, the train had just left Denver and my Rocky Mountain adventure was...

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'Rocky Mountain High'
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'They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through'
There is something special about rail travel; I've always enjoyed travelling by train. My decision to take the California Zephyr from...

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Amazing Grace
I have a ‘free’ day – that is I have nothing planned, so, with detailed instructions and plenty of money still on my clipper card (San...

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'Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.'
When I think about the facilities at Tullamarine Airport, the state-of-the-art airport opened in 1970 and not expanded since, I really...

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It's a long way from Melbourne to LA
This trip to North America was meant to happen in September/October 2020. But we all know what happened then. So, finally I'm at the...

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Sep 29, 20221 min read


'We were going to change everything, of course, but mostly we were going to change the rules.'
22 January 2022 There is still some confusion about my flight home and I've been onto Qantas by phone for hours; it's been a futile...

Janette Frawley
Mar 6, 20224 min read


'I was overwhelmed by a shock of breathless delight at the originality and beauty of the interior.'
21 January 2022 My time in London is coming to an end and despite getting a short reprieve of one day due to a cancelled flight, I must...

Janette Frawley
Feb 16, 20225 min read


'Tea. Both soothing and uplifting, a salve and a sharpener, the morning jolt and the evening's end.'
20 January 2022 The Number 63 bus is almost my best friend! I'm sure I haven't had to wait for any longer for five minutes for it to...

Janette Frawley
Feb 10, 20224 min read


'There is a wonderfully exquisite/uber-kitsch Egyptian escalator at the centre of the building.'
19 January 2022 What a wonderful trip this has been! It has been made sweeter because I've finally been able to shake off the shackles of...

Janette Frawley
Feb 6, 20225 min read


'Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities; that of race and that of soul.'
16 January 2022 Today is yet another beautiful, clear Irish Winter's day and I have four hours to drive from Kilkee to Newgrange, the...

Janette Frawley
Feb 3, 20224 min read


'There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.'
13 January 2022 Ireland is a magical, mystical place. It has a long, diverse, and troubled history, yet the people here are like no other...

Janette Frawley
Jan 29, 20225 min read


'I went to Cork and stood on the dock some of my ancestors left from. I felt their ghosts...'
11 January 2022 On a whim, I decide to travel to Ireland since most restrictions have been lifted. Fares on Ryanair are cheap. It’s the...

Janette Frawley
Jan 28, 20225 min read


'Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey.'
8 January 2022 The magical Winter-wonderland landscape has disappeared and is replaced with lush green partitioned pastures on this...

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Jan 27, 20226 min read


'I chose this valley, said the tree to the wall; stretching my roots under your scored foundations.'
7 January 2022 Within an hour of leaving sunny Whitby, big splodges of soft ice splatter the windscreen. Minutes later the soft sleet...

Janette Frawley
Jan 20, 20223 min read


'I want to flit my eyes like skipping feet over red-top tiny crooked houses, down tiny crooked lanes
Is it cheating to drive to the Whitby Abbey carpark? Not the way we have planned our day. We DID drive up to the Abbey carpark. But the...

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Jan 17, 20224 min read


'I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.'
Have you ever travelled to a place with great expectations and then felt a sense of disappointment when you arrived? This is how I feel...

Janette Frawley
Jan 16, 20224 min read


'Travel far and wide and you should possess the secrets of man'
3 January 2022 Great excitement today as we board a train for York. Despite only being able to secure 'backward' seats, somehow it...

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Jan 13, 20222 min read


'Nothing ventured, nothing gained'
30 December 2021 The train speeds through the Kent countryside; strange round-shaped buildings litter the countryside and pique my...

Janette Frawley
Jan 12, 20225 min read


Happy New Year
31 December, 2021 Tonight, New Year’s Eve, we climb Dawson’s Hill not far from Natasha’s home. She assures me that from this vantage...

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Jan 10, 20222 min read
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