Adventures

USA & Canada 2002 – San Francisco

 SAN FRANCISCO   August 11th:We landed in San Francisco Airport at 8am and had to find something to do to kill time until our 11pm flight back to Sydney. So there we were, two not very energetic souls trying to figure out what we could do… First things first though, we checked our baggage in to…

USA & Canada 2002 – Washington State Pt 2

  WASHINGTON STATE – Pt 2   July 22nd – August 11th: We hopped on a wee little airplane (so small that it could easily be mistaken for a crop-duster) out of Lafayette with a quick stop in Memphis to change to a bigger aircraft which brought us back to Seattle just before noon.Again, sweet ANGEL was there to…

USA & Canada 2002 – Louisiana

  LOUISIANA   6th – 22nd July:  The Greyhound bus pulled into the Seattle depot at mid-morning and we got off, feeling rather stiff and weary. Too tired to comtemplate catching another bus service and with no cabs in sight, my MOTH and I impulsively decided to lash out and hire a limousine to get us to…

USA & Canada 2002 – British Columbia

  BRITISH COLUMBIA  June 26th – July 5th: My first long bus trip ever and what an experience it was! Not long into the bus-trip to Vancouver BC, I opened up my bottle of root beer and watched like a stunned mullet as the effervescent drink bubbled over and oozed out… down my hands, onto the crotch of…

USA & Canada 2002 – Washington State Pt 1

  WASHINGTON STATE – Pt 1  June 17th – 26th: After weeks and weeks of careful planning and great deliberation over amount of clothing to take and number of suitcases to pack them in, we finally got to Tullamarine Airport on the morning of June 17 for our flight to San Francisco via Sydney. Arrived in Sydney…

USA & Canada 2002

    WASHINGTON STATE   BRITISH COLUMBIA    LOUISIANA  – 2002           Washington State             British Columbia             Louisiana   INTRODUCTION : My MOTH (Man Of The House) and I began planning for this long awaited trip months in advance. We left Melbourne on June 17th and returned home on August 12th. We had a blast, visiting good friends in Washington State, British…

Singapore – 2001

 SINGAPORE – 2001  FRI NOV 9  Here I am in humid, sunny Singapore aka the Lion City. I had a great flight, thoroughly enjoyed the superb supper before attempting to watch the in-flight movie but my eyelids kept snapping shut so I gave up and assumed the fetal position (was lucky enough to have a…

Road Trip: Ayers Rock/Uluru 2000

    We gleefully left Melbourne on Thursday morning, 24th Aug. in the 4WD which had been expertly packed the previous day by my dear sweet partner/chauffeur/financier/travel organizer, my M.O.T.H. (Man Of The House) a.k.a. hubby. I was in charge of the music, photographic equipment, food and drink breaks, karaoke sing-alongs and taking power-naps! FYI,…