Comments on: Broadening the Mind

By: Michelle Diener

Michelle Diener — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:43:24 +0000

Ooooh, T. That sounds very weird, but something good to have experienced. Reminds me of the deer that save the heroine in Dean Koontz’s Intensity. Loved that book.

By: Michelle Diener

Michelle Diener — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:42:26 +0000

That sounds like fun, LaD. You got your people watching in, hubby got a truck. Win win.

By: Michelle Diener

Michelle Diener — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:41:42 +0000

I haven’t been to the east coast of Oz yet, Liz, but if I do, I’ll remember that titbit.

By: Michelle Diener

Michelle Diener — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:40:55 +0000

I imagine you were pretty focused, Edie, LOL. What a great memory.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:01:08 +0000

After reading your post I came to the conclusion I haven’t had a holiday in way too long. LOL

I did take a four day weekend with my dad last summer and we visited Lake Joesph. The park we stayed at had a herd of very tame deer. They’d walk right up and let you pet them. They were all bucks, several years old with antlers covered in velvet. And petting those antlers was the highlight of my trip. They were so warm, like touch a heating pad, but as soft as velvet. Just an incredible feeling. YOU could almost feel the blood pulsing beneath your fingers. It was just cool and creepy at the same time.

By: LaDonna

LaDonna — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:16:23 +0000

Michelle, love your discoveries! I love finding inspiration where ever I am too, especially on vacations. We didn’t go this year, since we always go to the Gulf area. But, I spent a pleasant day with hubby yesterday, exploring a few towns over. We were on a, Used Truck Hunt. Well, I’ll tell ya, just encountering quirky characters in my daily life is food for my soul. And boy did we ever find some. Oh, and hubby found his truck too.

By: Liz Kreger

Liz Kreger — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:59:43 +0000

Sounds like you had a terrific time, Michelle. Best of all, this could be a tax write off (if Australia allows that) since so much what you saw was direct research.

I always try to check out period areas when I go on vacation. Its fascinating to see how things used to be. I was just thinking of the town of Port Macquarie North of Brisbane. It was a charming area and had a real old world feel to it.

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:26:32 +0000

What a fun thing to do on your holiday! I can’t think of anything bizarre on my holiday, though we got lost and ended up driving on a dirt mountain lane barely wide enough for one car, with a drop off into air just outside the passenger window and mountain outside the driver’s window. Thank God we didn’t run into a car going the other way until it leveled off and there was ground on both sides of the dirt road.

Though we have lots of memories from our trip to Arizona, that’s our most vivid one. That whole time, we were completely present in each second, our attention never wandering.