User:Skyring

Happy to be here!

Skyring

My name's Peter and I'm happy to be a small part of a great project. My interests lie more in the direction of hunting down and killing errors or refining awkward phrasing than in creating huge slabs of text, but I think there's a definite role for me here!

I'm middle aged, balding, married, a parent, a bookseller, a programmer, an ex-political journalist, ex-hacker, ex-public servant, occasional author and artist. Catholic in tastes, militant middle of the road in politics, conservative republican and passionate democrat. I live in Canberra in a house packed to the rafters with thousands, countless thousands according to my inventory program, of books of all shapes, sizes and types.

If you want to know more about me, check out my Bookcrossing bookshelf and my blogs:

• Skyring
• Hello Its Me
• One More Fare
• Fly grub
• Hog Jowls

Past travels

I live (and work) for the chance to visit the many amazing places in this world. And for the chance to meet my internet friends.

• January 2005: Washington DC
• March 2005: Dunedin and Christchurch, New Zealand
• April 2005: London, Fort Worth, San Francisco
• February 2006: Dunedin
• April 2006: Perth, Osaka, Hiroshima, Paris, Normandy, Guernsey, London, Shrewsbury, Frankfurt, Charleston, Toronto, San Francisco, Honolulu
• July 2006: London, Birmingham, New York
• October 2006: Adelaide
• February 2007: Wellington, New Zealand
• April 2007: Perth, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Fort Worth, Chicago, Washington, Charleston, New York
• September 2007: Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Melbourne
• April 2008: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Egypt, Athens, Barcelona, Guernsey, France, Wales, England
• October 2008 Auckland, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dublin, Chicago, Washington, Charleston, Seattle, New York, Perth
• March 2009: Ayers Rock
• April 2009 Wellington, Christchurch
• July 2009: Tokyo, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Washington, New York, Rockhampton
• October 2009: Kansas City, Oklahoma City, San Francisco
• April 2010 Kyoto, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, Niagara, Chicago, San Francisco
• April 2011 San Francisco, Grand Canyon, New Orleans, Cape Canaveral, Washington DC, Chicago, Route 66, Kansas City, San Francisco
• November 2011 Wellington

Upcoming travels

• April 2013 Sweden