Category: Holiday 2025
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Seattle Moving Day
Well, moving from Hotel to Hostel. It’s sort of a moving day. The hotel wasn’t in a great area, I think? The area about a block away towards the conference centre seemed worse, just from the number of clearly drugged-up people seen & count of meth pipes in use. I didn’t feel particularly unsafe, I’d…
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WorldCon Day Four
There is a fanzine zone just outside the vendor booth and fan tables area, so I spent some time there and read a few things.
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WorldCon Day One
At previous WorldCons I’ve arrived earlier, and so have usually picked up my badge before day one of the convention. Not this time though; I got to experience the slow shuffling queue version of things. I do not remember a board game or RPG Library at the other WorldCons that I’ve attended, but to be…
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Auckland to Indy
I can’t entirely remember why this trip was divided into two days. It might be as simple as “that’s how the flight times worked out”, but it may also be that I wanted to try breaking the trip in Los Angeles. Got to say, I don’t think it worked the way that past me intended…
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Nadi to Auckland
Departure day is always a bit weird for me, but I think this one went as well as could be hoped for. It was an evening flight, and I ‘booked’ a taxi for 4, so I had time to kill. ( The booking process was “what time? ok, I’ll see you then” ) Got breakfast…
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Garden of the Sleeping Giant
This was my one Official tourist thing of the trip. The hotel were really keen on booking stuff for me, because I don’t think they really understood the idea of a “do nothing & wander around’ sort of holiday, but all their offerings were tour packages which … Didn’t really work for me. I know…