Robot Claw – Page 356 – “Life In The So-Called Space Age”

Brisbane

December 28, 2016

After travel that included a flight cancellation, rerouting, delays and near luggage loss, we managed to both get on the same plane in LA as planned, and make it here at the same time.

Here is Brisbane!

The weather is beautiful and Brisbane is full of people. We’re staying in a lovely old hotel right next to the CBD and spent most of yesterday just wandering around.

And of course eating, since neither of us ate on the plane.

It’s a beautiful downtown, wrapped around the river as it does. On the other side from our hotel is a waterfront park and all sorts of attractions. We rode the Ferris wheel, but even though it was early afternoon I was pretty ruined by then and fading fast; it’d been over 40 hours since I had slept!

I went to bed at some ridiculous hour (it was still sunny out) and here I am at 3 am wide awake and hungry as a beast. I wonder if anything is open…?

Coasting

December 25, 2016

Tomorrow, for the 26th time, I fly across the Pacific for another annual migration south for the winter.

This time the trip will be a bit longer, and a lot more adventurous. For starters it’ll be me and B. For seconders check out our route:

We’ll land in Brisbane, spend a few days in Surfers, drive south over a few days staying in coastal towns until Newcastle, and then about two weeks later head to Sydney.

The sights we’ll see! The things we’ll do! The food we’ll eat! Read all about it here during the usual blog extravaganza 🙂

Oh, and Happy Christmas!

The Year In Postcards

December 23, 2016

I started the year in Australia, where I had all sorts of fun times. You can go back if you like and read all about it on the blog. I sent loads and loads of cards, at about US$2.50 each, and I’m sure you got some. On this trip I started drawing full-colour illustrations on the cards (mostly portraits), most of which were remarkable. I wonder who got this Stonehenge card (that I had purchased in an antique shop) and what I had written on it?

In March we went to Funspot in NH and played video games and it was great. Again, I sent postcards while I was there, but this photo was taken on the way back. I had decided to send cards from every state we passed through and I can now exclusively reveal that finding the cards in Vermont was much easier than finding a post box! I believe we eventually saw one in the carpark of a library as we were running out of state.

In May we went to RI to visit Lovecraft’s grave and I was moved enough to create this masterpiece. I hope I sent it to myself because I love it, but maybe it’s yours? If so, please treasure it…

Then came Vegas and California, and a bevy of funny and – dare I say – notable cards. I think this one (sent to KLS) sums up my feelings about Santa Barbara well. The sticker (of a band member from Slipknot) came free with a Metal Hammer magazine I had purchased just for the Baby Metal lenticular cover 🙂

And then came England, in which my postcarding reached – I think – a new peak. In particularly I am proud of the ‘postcard magic’ series that I sent Bernard. It’s a crime he hasn’t shared them on his blog yet…

In three days I’m off again, for 24 days in the sun, sea and sand. I’m filled with postcarding spirit, so watch your mailboxes keenly and look forward to the occasional masterpiece or two from distant shores!