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Made the trip down from Goulburn to Queanbeyan yesterday. The trip was in two sections. A very mild mannered drive from Goulburn to Bungendore along some beautiful “backroads”. The roads are nice but 2 lanes and quite narrow and the speed limit is 100, so it’s technically a highway. They could have made the roads [...]

Sooo, I suck at updating my blog? Recap: I flew into Sydney, took a train to Circular Quay, met up with a friend named Imogen and took the ferry over to Manly. Done. I was at Manly Backpackers for a few days.  I went to the Commonwealth bank as soon as I could to make [...]

It hurts my brain to think about these numbers.

I was going to do a post on New Zealand today but decided to keep that for later. I’m going to fill you in on my first trip to Australia. It was almost 6 years ago now and I still remember it like it was yesterday. I went with my high school rugby team and [...]

Fraser Island and the Whitsundays are often the most talked about portion of a travellers trip in Australia. Fraser Island Fraser Island is the worlds biggest sand island. Most of the trips here consist of crazy travellers driving around the island and it’s beaches in large 4×4′s. You can have a guided tour if you [...]

Canberra Whenever I think of Australia, Canberra is not the first city that comes to mind. I wasn’t really aware of it’s existence until I found out I had family there and talked to them. I knew  Brisbane and Sydney were big cities in Australia but I wasn’t sure what Canberra was. As I’ve been [...]

Sydney When you find a website or look at a book about Australia there is going to be a few things mentioned. The Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, and the Sydney Opera House. The Opera House is one of Australia’s iconic symbols. Most people can tell you what and where it is without blinking an eye. [...]

This is the introduction to my Coutdown to Australia series. I’ll be highlighting the awesome places that I’m heading down under to experience. After I land there, this will be the place you can catch up with me and see what I’ve been up to.  The videos will be here. The photos will be here. [...]

I needed to get out of the house for a little bit of fresh air this morning so we headed down to the Cable Bay Trail in Cedar, south of Nanaimo. Sunday mornings there’s a large group that heads out there will all their dogs in tow ( or rather the owners in tow) to [...]

It’s tiny. Really tiny. That is my first impression of it. My second? I hope my fingers fit on the keyboard. Ok. They do. We’re set then! Aside from being physically very small in size with an 8.9 inch screen and having relatively small keys this mini machine is a full on laptop. It runs [...]