Sorry we disappeared for a while. Since our last post, we have been some places, done some things, and have been very busy. Because we were travelling with Matt, then seeing friends and family in Australia and the USA we wanted to spend as much time as possible with some people we hadn’t seen for a while. Just not enough time to blog and do the million other things on our ‘to do’ list. Once we’re a bit settled, we’ll resume blogging more regularly.
Since we last posted we have been to Katherine, Kakadu, Darwin, Alice Springs and Uluru in the Northern Territories, Australia; said a tearful goodbye to friends in Sydney and the city we called home for 3 ½ years; flew across the Pacific into L.A. then on to Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July 4th; caught up with friends and family in NC; bought a 2010 Subaru Forrester – named “Susie the Subi”; drove from North Carolina to Denver, Colorado via Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas; caught up with friends and family in Denver; visited Rocky Mountain National Park; saw Tony’s dad absolutely rock-out on the harmonica while jamming with the band at his 60th b-day party; drove from Denver to the west coast via Western Colorado, Southern Utah, Arizona, Nevada and the Mojave Desert in eastern California before finally arriving at our final destination in beautiful San Diego, California, USA.
Along the way we have seen crocodiles, kangaroos, black cockatoos, parrots and birds of all manner, humpback whales (saw 10 off the south head in Sydney in one day; one even breached twice), North Carolina deer, Rocky Mountain deer, a herd of elk, pronghorn antelopes, and beavers. We have seen ancient art that pre-dates all western history. We have watched sunsets into the Timor Sea and the Pacific Ocean, over the Katherine Gorge, the Kakadu Flood plains, Uluru, the Bluegrass of Kentucky, the Colorado Rockies, and stunning Southern Utah. We have logged 5,000+ miles in a car, driven through or next to Darwin, Kakadu, Nitmiluk, The Arhnem Land Escarpment, Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Blue Ridge, Rocky Mountain, Canyonlands, Arches, Moab, Capital Reef, Zion, Valley of Fire, Lake Mead and Mojave National Park. We have driven through Kansas late at night trying to outrun a big thunder storm and driven through a massive rain storm in the California desert. We watched the Colorado Rockies blow a 3-run lead at home and followed the Ashes and the tri-nations via internet. We have eaten cheap and tasty Mexican food, roasted S’mores, eaten grilled Kangaroo and tried to get readjusted to the sad state of coffee in the USA. We even faced the double whammy of cultural oddity: reverse-culture shock and Southern California.
It has been a good five weeks and we will post stories and pictures soon.
Since we last posted we have been to Katherine, Kakadu, Darwin, Alice Springs and Uluru in the Northern Territories, Australia; said a tearful goodbye to friends in Sydney and the city we called home for 3 ½ years; flew across the Pacific into L.A. then on to Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July 4th; caught up with friends and family in NC; bought a 2010 Subaru Forrester – named “Susie the Subi”; drove from North Carolina to Denver, Colorado via Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas; caught up with friends and family in Denver; visited Rocky Mountain National Park; saw Tony’s dad absolutely rock-out on the harmonica while jamming with the band at his 60th b-day party; drove from Denver to the west coast via Western Colorado, Southern Utah, Arizona, Nevada and the Mojave Desert in eastern California before finally arriving at our final destination in beautiful San Diego, California, USA.
Along the way we have seen crocodiles, kangaroos, black cockatoos, parrots and birds of all manner, humpback whales (saw 10 off the south head in Sydney in one day; one even breached twice), North Carolina deer, Rocky Mountain deer, a herd of elk, pronghorn antelopes, and beavers. We have seen ancient art that pre-dates all western history. We have watched sunsets into the Timor Sea and the Pacific Ocean, over the Katherine Gorge, the Kakadu Flood plains, Uluru, the Bluegrass of Kentucky, the Colorado Rockies, and stunning Southern Utah. We have logged 5,000+ miles in a car, driven through or next to Darwin, Kakadu, Nitmiluk, The Arhnem Land Escarpment, Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Blue Ridge, Rocky Mountain, Canyonlands, Arches, Moab, Capital Reef, Zion, Valley of Fire, Lake Mead and Mojave National Park. We have driven through Kansas late at night trying to outrun a big thunder storm and driven through a massive rain storm in the California desert. We watched the Colorado Rockies blow a 3-run lead at home and followed the Ashes and the tri-nations via internet. We have eaten cheap and tasty Mexican food, roasted S’mores, eaten grilled Kangaroo and tried to get readjusted to the sad state of coffee in the USA. We even faced the double whammy of cultural oddity: reverse-culture shock and Southern California.
It has been a good five weeks and we will post stories and pictures soon.
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