Tree care, dog sitting and lots of rocks
I spent a quiet couple of weeks with Laura and Clifford near El Margen, a tiny village east of Granada. Laura wanted to some help finishing her rock wall. I was also able to use some of my knowledge of hydraulics to access and update a grey water irrigation systems. The soil in this are […]
Hello from Movizar, Spain!
I am staying at a large, unfinished farmhouse for my first workaway stay in Spain. First was supposed to be only but it turned out that things weren’t exactly as advertised. Nothing bad here, no gross kitchen or weird personal dramas. There just doesn’t happen to be any work for me, other than a few […]
Back on the Road Again!
I am happy to report I am writing from Spain. Linda and I had a great 9 days, visiting historical sites, snorkeling and enjoying tapas across southeast Spain. With so few days to play, it was a little rushed. That just means we know some places we want to visit during a future trip. We […]
National Parks Road Trip
Of the 63 National Parks in the US, I have only visited 15 of them. On my fuzzy list of things to do after retiring, visiting more of them seemed obvious. How hard could it be, really? They are all within driving distance, right?
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Catching up with pictures
How time flies! I am so far behind with this update that I am just going to tells the story in pictures.In between outings, I am hanging out at H&W’s house, painting a few things on walls and enjoying the local restaurants. The neighborhood could easily be mistaken for Southern California if you don’t notice […]
Batty
The house is very nice, fairly new and made of concrete walls with old fashioned tin plate ceilings. Like any farm house, there are animals who share the space, both inside and outside. I got up to pee around 3 am, not too unusual for me but not welcomed. I didn’t turn on the light […]
Wombat Rescue
What sounded pretty straight forward in the Workaway listing turned out to be anything but. Not in a bad way, just in a very interesting, unusual and intriguing way. Where to be begin? Friends, Mark and Jody, drove me all the way to the farm/rescue center. It was a large house sitting on 110 acres […]
The bravery of caring
Lyn Chalmers started Locky’s Legacy wildlife shelter 16 years ago. It is named after a little Brushtail possum who passed away overnight unexpectedly in his sleep. Locky’s Legacy is located approximately 10km north of Pakenham, Australia and covers approximately 5.9 hectares of hilly, native bushland with a dam and a creek running through the end of […]
Echuca Reflections
Kookaburras and cockatoos are setting the background track this evening. A storm rolled in after I got back to the Discovery Holiday park. I decided to not go back to town for dinner as planned. I am feeling sort of lost between the layers. Steamboat in Echuca I could fly to somewhere outside of Australia […]
Redirect from the Universe
Passport missing?!?! All packed up and ready to leave the Ashbolt Farm, I went to do the regular visual check of passport and vital documents.Standard operating procedure, I do it every time I leave a place. This time it is not standard; I can’t find the passport or the passport holder with the Nexus Card […]