Posts in Anecdote
"Ya quitter..."

But perhaps that’s a very old way of thinking, ingrained thought patterns that harken back to a different era, yet they still drive our decision-making out of respect to our forebears. Many of us (not me) are the children of baby boomers. We are Generation X (1965-1980), and our parents, if you’re still lucky enough to have them both, are Baby Boomers I (1946-1954), Baby Boomers II (1955-1964).

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"I hear the train a-comin'"

To explain the heat of the day, I fed water to a parched blue tongue lizard straight from the bottle!

Our party thought the situation brilliant, comical in fact, but there were others who were worried.

The train was full of passengers from Europe and Asia and visitors like us who had chosen to leave an island to visit another.

The locomotive had seen tougher days, but it had also seen better days.

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