Blue Planet Journey

Reusable sign placed on parked bikes in Rock Creek Park, DC.  It looked like cyclists toss the signs to the ground.  They are picked up and used again! The main purpose of signs is to communicate, to send a message.  Here are some recent messages! This sign was at the entrance to one of the Smithsonian's museums.  No guns and knives, no pepper spray, and no pot!  I'm surprised that marijuana got a reference when tobacco did not.   Bison as carbon farmers?  That's a great way to thank them, turning them into expensive jerky. Sign posted in a Georgetown ice cream shop.  Watch for the rabid raccoon! Posters on the wall in the George Washington University Law School's Student Bar Association office. Expectations? Well, it's not a sign, but who doesn't like ice cream? Truth in advertising. Caroline with sign honoring her Auntie BB . Do Tahitians thank us for this import? French...

Caroline with a wallaby at the end of a 50 K bike ride in Port Douglas , Australia. We've returned to Logan , Utah, after 5 months on "the road" (mostly, the sea).  Let me apologize in advance if I pause before trying to answer the question, "How was your trip?"  It is a lot to process, and I am trying to articulate a coherent response.  It's funny how it is easier to comment on 1 specific event than on a trip in toto.  But as I sit in my usual seat in the North Logan Starbucks, I'm having fun reviewing some of the photos from this adventure.  Here are some that haven't found a home, from a mixture of locations. This is the last time we got to meet our dear friend Micki, who passed 2 weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. We were attending the annual meeting of Friends of Hanauma Bay. Caroline at Turtle Bay, North Shore, Oahu. What be this, you may ask?  It's a public urinal in Fremantle, Australia, and a common design down u...

Our last day in New Zealand!  It was raining, so we decided to scrap our plans to walk the Auckland Waterfront Walk to Mission Bay, and instead take a guided tour through the city.  Our guide was Alex Bonham , a PhD student w orking on why Auckland was such a "playful city," considering how the public "may co-produce, and so transform the city, through play."  H er other 2 degrees are in theater and law.    S he was entertaining, knowledgable, and could speak loudly as vehicles drove by... a perfect combination! Getting oriented to the city.  New friend Carla P is standing in the center, next to our guide, Alex P. In some ways, a city is a city, right?  Business and government buildings, cafes and bars, streets and parks.  Auckland was no exception, except our guide brought it to life with her stories of prohibition, the suffrage movement, the strife between Maori tribes and Maori and Europeans, and stories of Jean Batten , a very famous ...