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Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

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Peter Nelson’s travels – Australian photos

by Peter Nelson As winter has descended on us, it might be nice to think about a warmer clime.

Peter Nelson’s travels – The end at Land’s End

by Peter Nelson “Hanging on for dear life” is a phrase you hear a lot, but it never applied to me until now. I had eight fingers supporting my entire...
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Peter Nelson’s travels – Indonesia

by Peter Nelson There’s a great line in a very great movie, “The Year of Living Dangerously”. The narrator says, “A man becomes as a...

Peter Nelson’s travel – Leaving Oz, almost too soon!

by Peter Nelson  Well, after two years Downunder, the feet were getting itchy again.  After all that glorious warmth and hundreds of sunny days, we...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Western Australia – Rottnest Island

by Peter Nelson Rottnest Island is just off the coast of Western Australia, and here’s the little chap who gave the island its name....

Peter Nelson’s travels – Around Perth, in Western Australia

by Peter Nelson Most of the time, we had these long, long beaches all to ourselves. I hate to make personal remarks about such a delightful...

Peter Nelson’s travels western Australia – Kalgoorlie to Perth,

by Peter Nelson After a bone-dry train trip across the Nullarbor, we jumped ship in Kalgoorlie, right in the middle of a downpour!  Since it...

Peter Nelson’s travels – South Australia – Kingoonya and the Nullarbor

The soldier dropped us off at Kingoonya the next day.  A quiet little burg pretty much in the middle of nowehere, but it is...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Coober Pedy

by Peter Nelson The only traffic we saw the rest of that afternoon were a couple of road trains.  That’s what they call the really...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Heading south

Ever hear of the Ozzie wave? It’s not a friendly greeting. Not even remotely sociable. But you see it a thousand times a day,...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Around the Rock

by Peter Nelson We had the whole place to ourselves for a few days, and that was one awesome experience. We spent a couple of days...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia -On top

by Peter Nelson Okay, it’s pretty desolate up here on top of Uluru. About as sunbaked, windy and parched as a place can get. Certainly...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Ayers Rock -Uluru

And smack in the middle of this vast, empty, dead land rises this awesome great presence — The Rock.  What can you say about...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Great Red Center

by Peter Nelson A land of incredible contrasts — dust so thick you can drown in it, water so brown you can walk on it. ...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – does it ever rain in Alice?

by Peter Nelson  Well, if it does, it sure doesn’t happen very often.  The Todd “River” runs right through the eastern edge of town.  A...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australia – Up to Alice Springs

by Peter Nelson  Leaving Adelaide, we journeyed east under some misbegotten impulse to make money picking fruit.  Wound up in a pear forest in Renmark...
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