The next time I post to this blog I will be back in Sydney. In between now and then I will fly from Reno, Nevada (where it has been snowing) to Los Angeles Airport, then late at night tomorrow board a Qantas flight home. Home: a more complicated idea than it once was. Physical, spiritual, intellectual, familial: one city cannot possibly be all these things to one person, in the same way that one person cannot be the sole source of nourishment – of whatever kind – to another.

Forgive my pseudo-philosophical musings. Growing progressively colder in the late afternoon above Lake Tahoe will do that to you, especially if you have a glass of creamy Chardonnay at the ready.