Missed me?

I'm back from a brief holiday down New South Wales' south coast: visiting Kangaroo Valley, Mogo and Nowra and staying at Sussex Inlet and Pambula/Merimubula, then back via Kiama.

Thank heavens for those "holiday with your dog" books and websites, which always direct me towards some unique holiday accommodations - and thank goodness for my Star Trek novels, which keep me entertained in those tinier towns where Internet cafes have not yet begun to spring up. I exaggerate. While I did see a few signs that the electronic age had arrived in these places, I also had second thoughts about announcing, on a daily basis, that I was on vacation for a week-and-a-bit... and, therefore, the house was unoccupied, even by its guard dog.