First Overseas Postcard!

Chicago USA

Package sent by William Leubscher

Postcard included in package

Thank you William for your wonderful insight into your town, culture and another part of the world.

William's package includes:

Phamphlets - Giordano's famous stuffed pizza,Navy Pier Chicago-Style fun,Six Flags Great America,Chicago Premium Outlets,Chicago City Pass, LaSalle Street Station travel guide, postcard.

Williams positive message:

" One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others" - Lewis Carroll


Good Gabble will be sharing a little bit of Australia with William as a thank you gift, sending a hard copy of Good Gabble Newzine along with some Australian goodies.

Parkes NSW

  This package consists of:

4 postcards
1 bookmark
Fast facts sheet - The Parks radio telescope
Brochure - CSIRO Parkes Observatory

  Whilst in Parkes we spent time at the CSIRO Observatory using this as a chance to do a little homeschooling learning.  With a 3D Theatre, Audio Visual Theatre, Cafe and lots of things to see we sure learnt a lot. The giant 64 metre "dish" operates 24 hours a day and is one of the most well known radio telescopes in the world.

Our positive messages:

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made" Dr Wayne Dyer

" Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche"   Germaine Greer

" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you" William James

" Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich" Sarah Bernhardt

Nimbin

  Nimbin was a town I have been waiting to visit for some time and it surely did not disappoint. Colour, music, vibrance and a world of peace and unity can all be found at Nimbin. We had an amazing day there walking the streets and shopping. With a large aray of shops selling everything that is different we found exactly what we wanted plus a lot of stuff we really didn't need.

  With cannabis been widely used and sold in public within Nimbin a postcard put out by Nimbin Health and Medical Research Council can be found in every shop throughout town. This postcard ( first pictured) provide 11 guidelines on the safe use of canabis.

   Our motto: life is a natural high who needs drugs.


Our positive message:

" How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" Anne Frank.


  

The Channon NSW

  A sleepy little village with a lot of character, a sentence that sit's nicely with The Channon.  Situated between Lismore and Nimbin we visit The Channon when it was mentioned to myself by my Auntie who had photo's of the town and a friend from when she was a teenage. Our visit enabled us to take a look at the town as it is today and compare it to the town it was.

   The Channon is renown for it's amazing markets which unfortunately were not on the day we visited.

 Our positive messages:

" Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr Seuss

" Individually we are one drop, Together we are an ocean." Ryunosuke Satoro.

Port Macquaire

   Sun, sand and surf were the order of the day when we stopped at Port Macquarie. We spent a wonderful week enjoying the sunshine and visiting the local sites. It was here that we visited the Koala hospital and sponsored a Koala named Aussie Mick. Read more about it at http://gabblingaroundaustralia.blogspot.com

    The first group of postcards within this set are a group that come from the Arts, Conference and Entertainment Centre. The visitors information centre is all contained within this building. As well as viewing a variety of artwork we spent time learning more about the first lady of Australian Opera, Dame Joan Sutherland. We were lucky enough to view some of her amazing costumes and learn of her talent.


Our positive messages:


 "The ancestor of every action is a thought" - Ralph Waldo Emerson


" Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones you'll start having positive results" - Willie Nelson


" We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world" Gautama Siddharta


" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self" - Aldous Huxley


" Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible" - Cherie-Carter Scotts


" Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same" - Francesca Reigler

Dubbo

    The motto of Dubbo is one that should be embraced by all towns........Time to smile. And that is does. Although cold and overcast when we visited the town still shone with smiles, happiness and friendliness. With plenty to do and see Dubbo is a place for all.

A visit to their internet site also leaves you feeling refreshed and positive. www.dubbotourism.com.au is bright vibrant and welcoming. Positive messages adorn the site - Live, Explore, Grow, Play.

  Congratulations Dubbo for providing a place were positivity is well and truly in action.

  This package consists of a bright vibrant Dubbo booklet telling of the town and what it has to offer, along with a postcard and sticker. The logo on the sticker, which is that of the town of Dubbo, is a smiling emoticon.

Our positive message:

   "Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries" - Corita Kent.

Lake Bonney/Cobdogla South Australia

 

    Lake Bonney was a place of tranquility and amazing bird life. We stayed a few weeks at Lake Bonney Holiday Park and can highly recommend it. The staff are very friendly and courteous and the park clean and tidy. There is plenty for the kids to do.  You can read more about our stay at Lake Bonney on our travel blog  http://gabblingaroundaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/07/little-birdie-told-me-so.html

   Cobdogla is only a short distance form Lake Bonney and is a small town full of positivity and smiles. Whilst staying at Cobdogla Station Caravan Park we had many visit to feed the animals and spent time sitting on the jetty with nothing much on our minds. Read more at: 

http://gabblingaroundaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/09/cobdogla-sa-where-smiles-are-plenty-and.html

   This package of cards consists of information on Lake Bonney Holiday Park, a Lake Bonney postcard and a postcard from Humphrey Pump Cobdogla.

  Our positive messages:

" You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of constellations but you have charge of whether you read, develop new skills and take new classes" - Jim Rohn.

" When you realise how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" - Buddha