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In case you really, really dig looking at other people’s vacation photos, here are mine: http://www.bkdunn.com/photos/Fiji-SI/Fiji-SI.html You could also go to flickr and look up “briandunn02″ and check out the same set of pics there. bkd

The driver from Ba, who took me from Ba to Navala and back, was by far my favorite (see video). VIDEO (Quicktime, 600K):  Taxi from Navala Some notes and observations related to Fijian cab drivers: If you offer to buy them a Coke, they’ll take you up on it. As far as I could tell, [...]

I’ll start with the video this time. It’s actually compressed. Then if you’re interested, you can get my amateur historical synopsis. VIDEO (Quicktime, 4.7MB): Alligator Creek [amateur historical synopsis] Essentially at the far western end of Red Beach is Alligator Creek, which is actually the Ilu River and is known to historians as the site [...]

For some reason I thought it’d be great to see as many war sites as I could on the Fourth of July. I dunno — maybe that was a good idea. Red Beach on Guadalcanal was the Normandy of the Pacific — not in terms of battle ferocity, but in the sense that it was [...]

Late summer, early fall of 1942, the decisive land battles of the Pacific Theater were being fought on Guadalcanal. There were two key battle locations that, essentially, held the key to victory: Edson’s Ridge and the mouth of the Matanikau River. The mouth of the Matanikau was important because it was the only reasonable place [...]

In the Nadi airportt right now. Keyboard sticks. Flight leaves to Hhoniara in an hour or so. Fiji was very cool and nothing like I expected.

The good thing about the OC is that you don’t really have to go all that far to get into the boondocks. Went hiking yesterday on the Bear Canyon Loop Trail in Cleveland N.F., about a half-hour drive from here with the trailhead just off Ortega Hwy. Ended up being a fun hike. The first [...]

Cab driver from DFW to the W Victory was Palestinian: “What are they fighting for? What do they want their own country for? We already have 22 Arab countries and they all suck. What do we want a 23rd for?” Of course, he also mentioned that the only people greedier than the “yellow man” were [...]

Got my semi-annual bonus check yesterday, so bought my tickets to the Solomons today. Ended up cutting a day off the Fiji part of the trip in order to save $600 on airfare, but that’ll probably be okay (although it might mean I end up staying those two days somewhere closer to Nadi). Now all [...]

Yeah, so I’m only posting this frequently b/c the new blog is fun. I’ll cut back soon, promise. Anyway, inspired by other writers who give out their convention attendance plans, here’s my tour schedule this year. If anyone’s going to be in any of these areas when I am, give me a holler. January 8-11: [...]