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Settling in

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Well, I’m here in San Francisco and starting to settle in nicely. Lots of social stuff going on, fun work that doesn’t feel like work, and I found a place to live really quickly and easily.

This photo’s [...]

California, here I come

I seem to be constitutionally incapble of avoiding that subject line. Sigh. I apologise.

In any case, it’s official. I’m moving to California in less than two weeks’ time.

I put off mentioning it here in some sort of fit of superstition. I didn’t want to jinx it. But back in [...]

Farewell, San Francisco

Murals in Balmy Street, the Mission District, San Francisco.

I left San Francisco on Tuesday full of burrito and Bi-Rite icecream and arrived in Melbourne Thursday to be greeted by a family crisis that has basically managed to erase any cheerful feelings I might have felt about being home. I’m also suffering from a [...]

Maritime Museum

So, the San Francisco Maritime Museum isn’t that great, but I do like this photo.

This week has been rather insane. I’ll try and post something substantial as soon as I slow down.

The further you travel…

… the more Melbourne trams you find. Or something.

Trolleypup took me for a tour of San Francisco’s historic trolley collection, including this poor old girl — a Melbourne W2 class tram, like the ones I used to catch to school in the 80s, just before they were decommissioned. Flickr set here. [...]

In which Infotropism becomes a travel log

I’m in San Francisco, playing tourist. Expect more photos and travel diary interspersed with the usual stuff over the next few weeks.

The above is one of the murals on the wall of Clarion Alley in the Mission District. You can see a representation of the alleyway itself in the human figure in [...]