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Well, it's good to be home. After four weeks away, you start to miss the niceties of home - the mess in the spare room, the vomit-coloured carpet, the washers that need replacing.
But our trip to America last month was well worth it. We got to see so many interesting things, and to discover that America is just like Australia - except for the bits that aren't.
When you go on holiday it's amazing the crap you bring back with you. Tourists are probably the only ones who grab every single brochure they can find. The locals just presume they know it all. But to the tourist everything is new, different and exciting.
Of course, most of it never gets read. It comes home packed (somehow) into the suitcases, dumped into a desk tidy and thrown out a few months or years later. It's time to face facts - I'll probably never want to read that guide to What's On In Phoenix (April '96) again. We brought home enough photos and video of the Seattle Space Needle without needing to keep the brochure (complete with vouchers for the restaurant). The Washington and British Columbia ferry guide? It's goin' out! Yep, so now you know I'm showing no mercy.
Then there's the stuff we actually paid for. We were determined to get an Archie McPhee rubber chicken, but I'm stuffed if I know what we're going to do with it.
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