Morning In Brisbane evening in Kuala Lumpur
Morning In Brisbane evening in Kuala Lumpur
It's 9:30am. The sun is very bright. The sky is
deeply pale blue. The trees are richly green--palms
and many others. The flowers are gloriously
multi-colored. The people are moving rapidly in their
directions. Traffic is fairly steady. And the music
here is very fast pace. This a tropical yet highly
urban paradise of sorts.
Sitting in a email cafe down 5 steps from the street
level to my immediate right. Travel is consistent
with trucks, cars, busses, people on their way to work
or to shop. Me I am taking some quiet time to write
to friends and catch up on some longest distance
business stuff.
Yesterday was very peaceful. I leisuirely wandered
around the downtown area after my Host Aniska drove me
into Brisbane to the Novotel Hotel. After settling in
I went for a stroll and then rode the CITY CAT, ferry
boat system all the way up and then all the way down
and back to the city centre. The day before I thought
I saw great sights and sites. Yesterday I saw the
truly dense high-rise building section, all built
within the past few years around a bend or two in the
Brisbane River.
Between the city centre boat dock and the Riverfront
Area, filled with restaurants of all kinds along the
river on both sides of this very wide river lies the
Botanical Gardens right up to the river. Even through
the edge of the Gardens there is an environmentally
support walk/stroll/rollerblade/jogging way making it
possible to continuously do those things on either
side of the river for miles and miles from park to
park to park to still more parks.
The weather has been perfect all 3 days I have been
here and is again this morning. In a few minutes I am
off to mail more collected "stuff" home.
The Queensland Chapter of the NSAA meeting was great
fun last night. I met between 45 and 50 fun people
and they enjoyed at some of my craziest. Truly I let
myself get into flow integrating many of my
experiences and learnings and joys of traveling in
their beautiful country and experiences as a
professional speaker. I got to bed about 2:00 am and
then woke up immediately at 6:30. My internal clock
is fixed on that time no matter where I am.
This morning is a slow time. Post office, pack (done
already), have an early lunch in a fun restaurant,
catch my van to the international airport to fly to
Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia Air.
I think I see a souvenir shop I haven't been in.
Thank God!
Actually I do have some left over Australian funds.
If I transfer them to Malaysian I lose money. So I
will treat myself and maybe buy a gift or two. May
that is...ha ha!
Brisbane is a very hilly city much like San Francisco,
Atlanta, Rome, Athens (Greece and Georgia)...except
like in Washington, SF, A, R often you don't realize
that they hills are there because of the urban
construction. This morning I walked around the
Central Train Station and discovered that their was a
park across the street from it 2 to 3 levels lower
filled with trees and a War Memorial plus fountains
and pools and lots of people.
Well the hard, loud, steady beat of the music in here
is starting to jive me up too much. Time to wander
peacefully for a couple hours.
See y'all from Kuala Lumpur later.
Cheerio mates for the last time this trip from
Australia, a land of great contrasting beauty and
fantastic people (a few jerks here and there but every
country and town has those and besides we're all jerks
to someone).
Wandering Alan
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It's 9:30am. The sun is very bright. The sky is
deeply pale blue. The trees are richly green--palms
and many others. The flowers are gloriously
multi-colored. The people are moving rapidly in their
directions. Traffic is fairly steady. And the music
here is very fast pace. This a tropical yet highly
urban paradise of sorts.
Sitting in a email cafe down 5 steps from the street
level to my immediate right. Travel is consistent
with trucks, cars, busses, people on their way to work
or to shop. Me I am taking some quiet time to write
to friends and catch up on some longest distance
business stuff.
Yesterday was very peaceful. I leisuirely wandered
around the downtown area after my Host Aniska drove me
into Brisbane to the Novotel Hotel. After settling in
I went for a stroll and then rode the CITY CAT, ferry
boat system all the way up and then all the way down
and back to the city centre. The day before I thought
I saw great sights and sites. Yesterday I saw the
truly dense high-rise building section, all built
within the past few years around a bend or two in the
Brisbane River.
Between the city centre boat dock and the Riverfront
Area, filled with restaurants of all kinds along the
river on both sides of this very wide river lies the
Botanical Gardens right up to the river. Even through
the edge of the Gardens there is an environmentally
support walk/stroll/rollerblade/jogging way making it
possible to continuously do those things on either
side of the river for miles and miles from park to
park to park to still more parks.
The weather has been perfect all 3 days I have been
here and is again this morning. In a few minutes I am
off to mail more collected "stuff" home.
The Queensland Chapter of the NSAA meeting was great
fun last night. I met between 45 and 50 fun people
and they enjoyed at some of my craziest. Truly I let
myself get into flow integrating many of my
experiences and learnings and joys of traveling in
their beautiful country and experiences as a
professional speaker. I got to bed about 2:00 am and
then woke up immediately at 6:30. My internal clock
is fixed on that time no matter where I am.
This morning is a slow time. Post office, pack (done
already), have an early lunch in a fun restaurant,
catch my van to the international airport to fly to
Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia Air.
I think I see a souvenir shop I haven't been in.
Thank God!
Actually I do have some left over Australian funds.
If I transfer them to Malaysian I lose money. So I
will treat myself and maybe buy a gift or two. May
that is...ha ha!
Brisbane is a very hilly city much like San Francisco,
Atlanta, Rome, Athens (Greece and Georgia)...except
like in Washington, SF, A, R often you don't realize
that they hills are there because of the urban
construction. This morning I walked around the
Central Train Station and discovered that their was a
park across the street from it 2 to 3 levels lower
filled with trees and a War Memorial plus fountains
and pools and lots of people.
Well the hard, loud, steady beat of the music in here
is starting to jive me up too much. Time to wander
peacefully for a couple hours.
See y'all from Kuala Lumpur later.
Cheerio mates for the last time this trip from
Australia, a land of great contrasting beauty and
fantastic people (a few jerks here and there but every
country and town has those and besides we're all jerks
to someone).
Wandering Alan
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