I’m Archi, a plus aged person living in Beautiful Brisbane, Australia. I’m lucky that the accident of my birth provided me with advantages in life such being born in a country safe from wars on its own soil, a free education system and human rights that are not enjoyed even by many other Australians.

I was told throughout my childhood and early teenage years that I was a square peg in a round hole and that was true. The hole was the problem – it should have been square. When I turned sixteen I left the location of that round hole and didn’t look back. I don’t know where I got my desire for a life that was completely foreign to that of my parents and siblings. It’s been a life that has taken me to quite a few places around the world where I’ve experienced what is is like to unexpectedly be caught in the middle of an impassioned political process in one country and to be marooned in another due to a nation wide civil disobedience event that went on for weeks. It’s a life that gave me a beautiful partner to travel through life with, three children and four grandchildren. Nowadays, when we are travelling, a message “Where ARE you guys?” immediately tells us that there has been a tsunami, earthquake, new virus or political problem that we may not be aware of somewhere near to the travel plan we provided to our children.

Thirty years ago I finally found my forever home here in Brisbane, Australia.

Covid, and an uncooperative spine, mean that I don’t travel so often or so far from home so the stories in my blog will mostly be from memories made over the past fifty years. I hope that you enjoy reading them. I read several travel blogs so maybe I’m reading your stories too!