On my way now...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Cell phone? Mail them to yourself. Save them on your desktop and attach them to a post.

I have a cheap burner phone flip phone and I have big stubby fingers, ain't gonna happen.

[Catholic_Lady]

Have a great trip Brian! You deserve to have a good time. It's been a rough year for you.

[Brian37]

Have a great trip Brian! You deserve to have a good time. It's been a rough year for you.

You said it Brodda

[Brian37]

Going to see my friend Bob again tomorrow. I will have all week to visit him. I do however need to slow down because my long term back problem is acting up again. I will be going to Steve Erwin's nature reserve on Friday.

Russell Island is where I will be staying the rest of the trip. It is really neat to get there by water Taxi. Especially in the morning when it just warm enough and breezy so you are not hot. The view from the bay is amazing.

Got to see my first wild kangaroo outside a zoo here in Stanthorpe.

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Russell Island, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)

From the veranda
Overlooking the sloped backyard
To see the beauty 
Is not that hard

Mangrove trees
With octopus roots
In low tide
Attack the drying mud

Great pretender
This half moon lagoon
Pretending it is a dry riverbed
In some scorching part of Africa

But no,
It is just a slight indentation
In my friend's back yard
High tide will remind it

Shimmering silverback waters
No you are not Africa
The underlying turqoise
Of the bay will remind you

The calm tide gently creeps in
It wants to sooth the angry roots
Lapping around them as if
They're  photons acting as both particle and wave

Those clever double slit waters
Undulate the shadows of the roots
Swaying and snaking 
Under the broccoli branch mangrove

And those chimps 
Are not Orangatangs
Any which way but loose 
They're kookaburras

Lap lap lap
The tide slowly creeps in
A heavy piece of driftwood
Submerges like a navy sub

But it is only temporary 
The tide retreats
Those angry roots
Exposed again

[Brian37]

So yesterday we went to the local mall so I could buy some shorts and Deb could buy some steak for us to grill. Anywho, the grocery store is inside the mall. The funny thing was that she went through the checkout, I picked up the bags out of the cart to carry them and she still pushed the cart HALFWAY THROUGH the mall before I asked her"Why are you still pushing the cart when I am carrying everything."


She responded "Because you're rubbing off on me,"

[Brian37]

Ok so Deb, Bob's sister has been driving me around for the past couple days to get me used to things. But today was the first day I took the water taxi and bus alone.

She dropped me off at the water taxi and went home. But just to screw with her, when I got to Bob's nursing home I FB PMed her, "Damned bus driver dropped me off at the wrong stop, I am lost."

I could imagine Deb reading that at home going, "God Brian is an idiot!" Probably thinking  "My entire day is blown".

But didn't let it go long, I said, "He he he, I'm fine, with Bob now"

Her response. "I'm not talking to you."

My response, "I love you too".

Her response, "LOL"

I am sure I freaked her out for a second.

[GrandizerII]

Ok so Deb, Bob's sister has been driving me around for the past couple days to get me used to things. But today was the first day I took the water taxi and bus alone.

She dropped me off at the water taxi and went home. But just to screw with her, when I got to Bob's nursing home I FB PMed her, "Damned bus driver dropped me off at the wrong stop, I am lost."

I could imagine Deb reading that at home going, "God Brian is an idiot!" Probably thinking  "My entire day is blown".

But didn't let it go long, I said, "He he he, I'm fine, with Bob now"

Her response. "I'm not talking to you."

My response, "I love you too".

Her response, "LOL"

I am sure I freaked her out for a second.

Ooh love story.

[Brian37]

Ok so Deb, Bob's sister has been driving me around for the past couple days to get me used to things. But today was the first day I took the water taxi and bus alone.

She dropped me off at the water taxi and went home. But just to screw with her, when I got to Bob's nursing home I FB PMed her, "Damned bus driver dropped me off at the wrong stop, I am lost."

I could imagine Deb reading that at home going, "God Brian is an idiot!" Probably thinking  "My entire day is blown".

But didn't let it go long, I said, "He he he, I'm fine, with Bob now"

Her response. "I'm not talking to you."

My response, "I love you too".

Her response, "LOL"

I am sure I freaked her out for a second.

Ooh love story.

Not sure you got it. I don't live in Australia. I was trying to get her to  think I was lost and think that she would have to come get me. She runs her own business and if that had happened for real, that would have thrown off her entire day to come get me.

[Losty]

Hope you’re having fun!

[Thumpalumpacus]

<green with envy>