Category: Trip

Go West

Tomorrow, I’m going on vacation!

My trip is two fold, and will start with several days in…

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, where my friend SFL now lives. She has promised me I will see such things as road runners,ย  gila monsters, nuclear test sites and possibly even crashed alien spacecraft! My mind is abuzz with excitement ๐Ÿ™‚

The second half of my trip will take place in…

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San Jose, California, well known as the ostrich farm capital of the USA. My brother and his wife live there, and they are no doubt as eager as I am to visit the fields of struthio camelus.

A couple of years ago, a person who I won’t name but who gave birth to me was overheard (by me) describing me thusly: “A little of him goes a long way!” She was of course referring to my boundless energy and occasionally – shall we say – ‘enthusiastic’ personality. I have recharged my batteries resting this past week, and can only hope that SFL and BS are prepared for my company ๐Ÿ™‚

I’ll blogging the trip in detail, so stay tuned.

Best Of The Rest

As I said, every photo posted during our recent vacation was taken by my iPhone. Although it wasn’t used much, we also had a digital camera with us and this post contains the best shots from the camera.

I’ll start with a few shots taken from our room balcony:

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Those were taken on different days, about a week apart. Both show the smaller of the enclores adjacent to our room. The hotel has multiple different enclosures to separate animals by type (although many different types are grouped together). This enclosure contained giraffe, zebra, ostriches and certain types of bird. The (much) large enclosure to the right of this one is where they kept most of the antelopey things. From our room we could see virtually every type of animal kept at the hotel, with the exception of red river hogs and okapi.

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The above shot was taken by KLS in one of the walk-through aviary’s in Animal Kingdom. There are two different ones, and I think this bird was in the one dominated by weaver birds, most of which were building (weaving) their nests above the stream that flowed through the aviary.

These last two shots show how close the animals get to the drive-through safari that guests can go on at Animal Kingdom park:

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We also got very close to a giraffe, but failed to take good photos ๐Ÿ™‚

I’m In The Airport Now

And so, as we wait for the plane, our vacation draws to a close. The week whizzed by at record speed (as all vacations seem to) but much fun was had.

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In my one-man effort to keep an industry alive, I sent 23 postcards this trip. Most of them should have arrived by now. I hope they gave you a smile ๐Ÿ™‚

Also, I proved to myself that blogging from my phone (as every post this trip was done) is easy and effective. I’ll have to work out how to do that internationally ๐Ÿ™‚

Oh yes, all photos were taken from my iPhone as well, which is a much better camera than my actual digital camera!

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed the travelogue ๐Ÿ™‚

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