Also, Italy is not terribly accessible. People were generally helpful, letting us use staff elevators and so on in some of those really old buildings with stairs everywhere, but it was still tough.
...I knew they'd need my help, because they're in their 80s.
And I did need to find a laundromat partway through! Which was fine, but it carved out a good chunk of a day, and they seem to be very fond of heavily scented detergents there.
I used to work as a librarian, and they handed out these HUGE tote bags at ALA conferences with the expectation that we'd fill them with ARCs.
I actually did do a carryon-only trip to Italy a couple of years ago, but that was because I was traveling with my elderly parents, and...
To your point about the wheelchair batteries, it feels like the "you can buy that where you're going" line of reasoning ignores a lot, in general.
(Personally, I wish more people checked bags, because boarding takes forever these days with everyone trying to cram everything into the overheads.)
There are laundry rooms at the rest camps I've stayed at in Namibia.
Washboard sinks and a clothesline, bring your own soap.
I guess my last overseas trip falls under "austere and remote" (per OP) but it required two knives, water purification equipment, and a tent.
Even if I could've carried all that on, running through the Addis Ababa airport to make a tight connection with it would've sucked mightily.
Second both the Mace book and the r/dementia sub. My parent doesn't live with me but other parent is the primary caregiver and it's tough to know how to support.
And I'm starting the research for those facilities now because if something happens to other parent.
Ooh, thank you! Will read.
This resonates with some of what I encounter in the nature connection communities I run in; there it's about both encountering the more-than-human world on its own terms and also re-engaging with something within ourselves. Hmm. Not so much magic but you can see it from there.
A dirt road of pale reddish sand, rapidly narrowing from the viewer's perspective as it descends into a flat, open area and vanishes in the distance. To either side, the green of grass, brush, and low-growing trees. The sky above is blue with puffy individual clouds.
Images of the Kalahari Desert online are often of the vast areas of bare red sand, but the part that I’ve visited twice now is a semiarid savanna with grass, brush, and even trees. For this visit, at the tail end of the rainy season, the Nyae Nyae was green and almost lush, with water in the pans.
True!
I drive through there about once a year; it's on one of the routes from I-5 out to the coast. Though often it's at night so I don't see much.
I'm so GenX that...whatever, never mind.
My days of never shopping there again are certainly coming to a middle.
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Congratulations, looking forward to reading! I dig that title.
A large group of elephants walking close together, left to right in the image frame, through long grass with a mostly clear blue sky above.
The last time I went to #Etosha, we saw one #elephant. Which was awesome and a little unnerving–that proximity to a being that can flatten your car tends to be–but a whole herd of elephants is something else again.
I still remember the "Best of Friends" Night Court episode, which I would've seen when I was 11 or so.
I love a good Ranganathan reference, especially on this topic.
Cat: ...dammit
I grew up in the D.C. suburbs and it was...something to be told that we weren't doing bomb drills because there really was no point.
Speaking as someone who was a teenager back then, basically, yeah.
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Season 1 of Downton Abbey got me through my last intercontinental flight
The kids getting caught in the flooded cave in Thailand some years back was straight up nightmare fuel.
He was too busy wailing about homelessness in Seattle and failing to get elected to city council.
More than one underpass, as it happens! There's a total of 11 crossing structures through that area. For the past few years I've been volunteering as a wildlife tracker on a data collection project connected to it.
There's a similar initiative getting started for I-5...
