Carter's Column

This is very much a personal opinion piece.  The opinions of other members of Macquarie University Cricket Club may vary. Compared to others, I have not been involved at Macquarie University Cricket Club that long; a mere 14 years have passed since I arrived on Australian shores in September 2006 eager to impress and improve my game. I had come from playing cricket on beautiful grounds in the South West English countryside, where teas were served and we had followers that would watch us week in, week out, and a bar at the club for socialising. My first impression of MUCC was a midweek evening training session at the world famous Sydney Cricket Ground, I could hardly believe where I was! No disrespect at all is meant by this, but it was a far cry from playing at a ground like Barton in Torquay (not the worst but not my favourite) to being at the SCG. And the club colours of Green and Gold matched my beloved Bovey Tracey CC; it's almost as if I was meant to be there, a home from home...

Our USA Honeymoon was a simply amazing journey, with many memorable locations along the way. In October of 2019 my wife and I embarked on a month-long adventure to the United States of America, our delayed honeymoon after 4 and a half years of marriage. We packed so much into that month it hardly seems believable, and what will follow on this blog entry are just things that relate to a man I have been a fan of since my early childhood; Michael Jackson. You may not believe this given the number of MJ items I'm about to write about, but the vast majority of our activities in the USA had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Jackson. Given what will follow, hopefully that illustrates just how much we did! We visited (in order) Dallas, Washington DC, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Solvang and Neverland Ranch, Los Angeles and Disneyland. We didn't do anything related to MJ in Dallas, so I'll head straight into Washington DC and the surrounding areas. Also, around t...