Category: Travels
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Norfolk + New York + Rome
Fr. Kerry and I met my parents, my sister Fina, and nephews Nathan & Ian, at Doc Taylor’s on 23rd Street for breakfast at 730am Monday. We wanted to beat the crowd, and get my sister to drive us back to the hotel. We would then catch the shuttle to the airport at 12 noon, […]
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Beginnings & Beyond @ Thunder Bay ONT
I hit the road again for Canada last Friday, to participate in the RCIA Institute: Beginnings and Beyond, conducted by the North American FORUM on the Catechumenate. I arrived in Thunder Bay ON well after 11pm on Saturday, a road trip that took 22+ hours (not including sleep of course). Temperatures were cooler than back […]
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Jubilee Celebration
Three days of it, although only two were really planned. Saturday was at the parish in Caringbah where Fr. Kerry had spent 25 of his 50 years of priestly ministry. The church was packed, seating 600 people when full. The music was extraordinary, the parish choir and a visiting Vietnamese choir. As well, there were […]
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South to Albany WA, Back to Perth & Fremantle … and Venezia for Dinner
On Sunday afternoon, we headed south to Albany on the southern coast of Western Australia, a 4 and a half hour trip, rain intermittently all the way down. We were staying at the home of Jack B., age 91, father of former parishioners of Fr. Kerry in Caringbah, Dot & John. The Perth-Albany Highway, a […]
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New Norcia, St. Mary’s Cathedral & Dinner @ Venezia
Downtown Perth on St. George’s Terrace Downtown Perth across from the Somerset Hotel. The Somerset Hotel at St. George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia Perth is 12 hours ahead of Waynesboro, so I don’t need to adjust my watch. And I am right about the farthest I can get from home without leaving the planet. Tomorrow, […]
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Between Yesterday & Tomorrow
The White Australian Cockatoo. I saw a whole playing field full of them the other day, gnawing at the lawn. Pretty, exotic elsewhere in the world, protected by law, but sometimes more of a pest. Many trees on the church property looked badly mangled at the roots. Imagine what a whole flock of them can […]
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