A Good Day for Pete

[skyring]

Highlights:
Three wild catches!

1. "It had a big Sticker on it that said 'Take me' so who was I not to take it!"

This is the book that won me the prize for "Best Themed Release" at the Christchurch Bookcrossing Convention, when I released "In the Pond" in the pond in the location where we held our Flashmob. A month later and it's picked up!

I've been Bookcrossing for over two years, but I still get a thrill when my books are found after a wild release!

2. One from Archer City.

3. And one from San Francisco.

Don't know what it is about SF that attracts Aussies....

Yes I do. It's a beautiful city, and Australians have a particular eye for beauty.

And at one stage I was talking to two different BXers on two different chat boards.

FuShMuSh with the latest two in the Grafton crime bookring - I haven't finished the last one yet. Mercy! I tried to talk her into coming to Brisbane, but she's fresh married and wants to buy a house, which in sydney is not cheap.

And Bookczuk helping me get through the day.

I booked my room for the Brisbane convention. which it looks like there will be several Bookcrossers at the old People's Palace.

And I sent off my green US departure card to an address in London, Kentucky. US immigration had neglected to remove the stub from my passport in Los Angeles - we'd all been waved through so long as we had a passport in our hands - and I was concerned that this would cause problems when i went back, as they might wonder how I'd got out of the country last time. So I asked Customs in Sydney and they said Dunno, ring the embassy, and the embassy had a useless telephone menu system and I wrote an email and had just about resigned myself to going over to the embassy when i got a response. Send the form to Kentucky, keep a record of what you sent. So I scanned the relevant pages and printed it on the back of the email printout, tucked in my passport in case I run into trouble next time around.

If they do this to whole jumboloads at a time, they must have holes in their computer records, unless they are getting the data from elsewhere. Not sure how they'd do that - my passport got swiped through the checkin desk in San Francisco, so American Airlines knew who i was, but would US immigration be able to correlate that with an international departure from LAX? At Los Angeles I arrived at the same lounge I was to depart from and nobody looked at my passport.

Oh well, I guess I'll find out next time! Probably when I do the Toronto trip next year.

Comments

[thebiblioholic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I see the UK stamps in my passport say six months. New Zealand gave me 3 months, but they wanted me to prove I was planning on leaving (by showing my itinerary) when I entered. On the other hand, they wanted to hold me captive until I bailed myself out with the $25 departure fee.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

LOL!