Mileage

It dawned on me that I have never blogged about one of my major modes of travel: Layla! My 2002 Jetta!Layla and I have been together for 7 years now, we met back in September 2006. Sure, she had some baggage, about 44,000 miles, but hey, who doesn’t have baggage...

What’s with the action figures?

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about why I always travel with action figures.  The answer is simple really: because toting around an action figure mascot (AFM) makes everything WAY MORE FUN!  The origin of the action figure dates way back to 2004, when...

The Holstee Manifesto

I’m totally jumping on a bandwagon here, but someone shared this one Facebook last week and it completely ‘spoke’ to me.  I just wanted to pass it along.  This is now my life manifesto. 

Last blog about funny signs, I *promise*

As I’ve said, the weather was not so good in NZ.  Only now am I realising that instead of taking pictures of scenery (becuase I couldn’t see any scenery, as it was all covered in fog/rain/sleet/freezing-sheeting-winds-of-ic) I took pictures of...