Thirty photo challenge: 18, 19 & 20.

18. A photo of something which has made an impact on your life recently

(photo not taken by me) The floods that affected our town since December 2010.  It has affected my life in so many ways...
The pistol club is still unusable and needs so much work and as with all clubs there are only a few willing hands to put in the hard dirty work required (and I am one of them) - and so much paper work (applying for grants, exemptions, etc) and also so much sadness at not being able to play with guns every weekend!
Also not to mention what the flooding brought with it.... ruining the beaches for the whole of summer, the humidity, the standing water that STILL remains around town six months after the event which then leads to sandflies everywhere making outside not an option at sunset, the plague of grasshoppers/locusts, the damage to houses & plantations & businesses (the petrol station in the photo is now operational but the building is not!). Enough already! This was apparently a 'once in 100 years' flood and I am very glad to see the back of it.


19. A photo of your biggest insecurity

I don't think I can answer this one.  I'm not perfect but I'm not insecure about it.  I am more than happy with what I've got in life.  Like my mother says: Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.  I like that.  And even when the bear gets you there is always still something out there that can make you laugh!

20. A photo of a place you would love to travel to

Well apart from the obvious - Fairbanks!
And New York - again , what an amazing place!

I think I have to pick 2....

Split, Croatia.  A friend of mine is from there and has recently moved back to start her own business.  She runs some holiday accommodation and writes me lovely emails about cooking freshly caught fish in the sun with a glass of vino.......

Tokyo, Japan.   I know it's expensive.  I know it's crazy busy.  I know it's cramped and the hotel rooms are tiny.  I know Japanese is an extremely hard language to even understand the basics.  But I WANT TO GO.