Adventuriety
We stepped onto our fifth continent (counting North America) since beginning our journey in July late the night before, after two long days of travel; drive to Los Angeles the night before for an early morning flight, Los Angeles to Atlanta, a three hour layover and then a six hour flight to Lima, Peru. We spent the night at a hotel across the street from...
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Adventuriety / Recuperiety
This year of travel has been a constant learning and growing process; if it’s not one thing it’s another. One lesson I have learned recently is that it is entirely possible to pack more activity, living, stuff, whatever you want to call it into a certain time frame than seems like a good idea. The trick is, you don’t think about it too much, you...
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Adventuriety
The last stop for this trip was a few days in Sydney before heading home to California for a quick pit stop and three weeks of sleeping in our own beds and reveling in unmetered internet. Ironically, because of our internet diet in Coolangatta, we watched the Food Network out of Sydney some evenings and enjoyed many commercials for Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
On that fateful hike over a year ago when Scott and I decided to dust off our dream of a year of travel with our kids and actually attempt to make it a reality, our conversation went in many directions with a lot of interrupting and laughing and excitement about the adventure that might be waiting for us. One of things we really laughed about was...
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Adventuriety
My running partner was the first to mention Australia Zoo to me when I started asking her about the “not to be missed” places around her husband’s home town, Caloundra. Her advice was the Australia Zoo, you know the zoo that Steve Irwin founded and his family operates? Actually, I had no idea that Steve Irwin founded a zoo (his dad started it with a few crocodiles),...
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