Northern Queensland, AU (2005)

My parent's had come out to visit us on this trip and we all flew up to Cairns for a week of rest and relaxation....

 

Answering the question: Do dingoes really steal babies?

So I didn't miss my flight...but actually I almost did. The first leg of the journey was to fly from SeaTac into LAX. If you fly on frequent flyer miles, you are one step above livestock. They won't give you a confirmed seat, even though I booked th...

 

East Coast Australia

We haven't told you much about our "wicked" camper yet. When we picked up the van, we were able to get a free upgrade.... yey, we have air conditioning and power steering! Furthermore, we were relieved to discover that our van was nothing t...

 

Australia 2004

Started my journey in Sydney ...

 

Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

 

Summer 2000 - SE Asia & Australasia

Still having a brilliant time. In Cairns we went scuba diving and snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef which was fantastic. I also did white water rafting which was incredible, with grade 3 / 4 rapids (5 and 6 are too dangerous for man). We might do t...

 

Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

 

Cyclone Larry

18hrs from Mt Isa to Townsville then a couple of hours to Cairns I was a mess, I had no sleep and had developed a cold as the bus was Freezing plus I had not brought my sleeping bag on board! I stayed at a lovely backpackers called Somewhere To Stay...

 

~m~ & Jon in Australia

Amazingly, one week of our holiday is already over. It has gone very fast, and also seemed like much longer, in that strange way that holidays do. We've done so much, and it's all been fabulous. For the last 3 days we've been on a tour of the Red Ce...

 

Australia

We headed to Caloundra to meet up with Haydn. After several attempts at trying to meet up with him we finally found him in the local phonebook! He couldn't escape that easily. We spent 2 lovely days with him, Michelle and his family. We went jet sk...

 

Australia

After Cervantes, we cruised on down through Perth (which will be our final Australian destination) to the funky and very pretty port city of Fremantle where we left Drew and Alistair for a few days while we continued further south. We plan to stay in F...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

Australia Pictures

Enjoy!...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

Australia (and a bit of Asia and Indonesia too) Summer 2006

After being met at the airport by someone from our hostel, we checked in, admired the room and then went into town for a wander around. It was notably warmer in Alice than in Sydney, however, town it would seem is more like a village. After an hour we ...

 

Australia 2006

19 to 22 June 2005 =========================== Some of this blog entry, plus soundseeing clips of a ranger walk at Uluru can be heard on my Geographpy for Travelers podcast at: http://tinyurl.com/yayk3t =========================== To climb o...

 

World Trip 2007-2008

We finally got to this place called "San Pedro de Atacama", a tiny little town in the middle of a plain in the Atacama desert that was surrounded by mountains in the far distance. Some of the houses and their rooves were made of mud. The road...

 

USA 2004

A few weeks in Aussie, and about a month in NZ, then stopped off in Vancouver on the way back to UK....

 

Rainy Rain Forest

We picked up the tour bus at the train station and we were taken to another train station to get the tourist train up to Kurunda village. The train climbed the mountain and got some nice views of Cairns. In Kurunda Lucy got her picture taken with a Koa...

 

Aussie

From Melbourne I took the overnight bus to Sydney. ...

 

Trip of a lifetime!

Well we arrived in Sydney after a tiresome 23 hours of travelling from Joburg, Africa, on the 6th March 2006....

 

Australia 2006

I arrived in Cairns on Tuesday morning at 1am, so headed for the resort and had a bit of a sleep. Tuesday I just walked through Cairns and went laying in the sun next to the lagoon. Cairns is very small and mostly consist of surf shops and travel a...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

 

Circumnavigation 2005

The sharp peaked Southern Alps gave way to rolling hills and massive lakes as we drove through Haast Pass on our way to Wanaka. It's amazing how each lake and river has it's own unique color, from the milky gray of glacial run-off to the melted raspber...

 

Sydney & Cairns, Australia

Our trip to Sydney....

 

Australia/Malaysia 2000

Friday 4 August 2000 Back on the road again. New bus driver - Young Joe Young. This fella was off his rocker! The "put your seatbelts on" signal consisted of 2 rings of a bicycle bell followed quickly by "SHIT! PUT YOUR SEATBELTS ON!!...

 

My Gap Year 2001

Travelling with Sarah a lovely trusted KES girl, we set off on our first location - Singapore the hottest place ever! From here we spent 6 months experiencing the delights of backpacking in Australia. On the west coast remember the lovely Brendan and t...

 

Malaysia/Australia - Christmas and New Year 2004-2005

After saying a tearful goodbye to my Sister again before we would meet up again in September, I stopped off for aone night in KL to break up the mammoth trip home. Had a well good time, and it was nice to spend a bit of time by myself exploring the ...

 

Round the world trips 2004

After being taken to heathrow we flwe straight out to bangkok where we stayed in the 5star Marriott Hotel on the banks of the river, it was beautiful. After meeting vic's dad we did tours of the markets at chatuchak and sala daeng. The bargains were am...