Hi all Just letting you know we are home safe. We were in LA the last few days. On the 4th we met up with Cary and went to Santa Monica Bvld and Venice Beach. We also visited Hollywood Blvd, went to a concert for the 4th of July celebrations and saw some fireworks after the show. The next two days Corinne did some shopping and we also visited the La Brea tar pits before catching our 11.20pm flight back home. Thanks for comments and support while we were away. As usual click on the images to get a bigger version. [View Full Entry]

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The Alaska part of our trip is now over and we are back in LA. Basically we went to four main areas: Prudhoe Bay, Denali NP, Prince William Sound and Katmai NP Prudhoe Bay lies at the very top of Alaska and is bordered by the Arctic Ocean. There is an extensive oil field area here stretching over 100 miles. All supplies have to be trucked in along a gravel road known as the Haul Road (Dalton Hwy). There are literally thousands of workers up there living in prefab buildings, it is like an industrial estate, all buildings are constructed on [View Full Entry]

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Pretty big update this one, so plenty of images. Since last update we had more ordinary weather as we headed south through the Redwood forests. These forests are special as they are the last remnants of old growth Redwood forest in the world. These are the tallest trees on earth reaching up to 380 feet. Our next big stop was San Francisco, getting the bus into town we went over the Golden Gate Bridge. Finally the weather had improved a bit but the wind was quite cool. During the next couple of days we visited Alcatraz Island and walked a lot [View Full Entry]

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Since our last update we have moved through Bryce Canyon Zion Canyon Then back into California for Sequoia NP Kings Canyon NP Yosemite NP and drove northward to Klamath and the Redwood forests not far from the Oregon border. Through much of the last week and a half the weather has been poor, hasn’t rained every day but been pretty dull and overcast and cold and there hasn’t been many visible sunsets or sunrises and this has impacted on the photography. They are all beautiful places worthy of seeing, we just didn’t get to see them at their best. The landscapes [View Full Entry]

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Okay, we have had requests for more updates and more photos so here is the next chapter. Like Australia the distances here are pretty large so it does take time to get around especially in a Motorhome. As we move to the next location it can take half the day to get there. After Monument Valley we headed westwards to Page. In the arvo we headed to Horseshoe Bend, we hiked to the river, it is pretty impressive the way the river bends and it is a long way down. I had to wait an hour till after sunset to get [View Full Entry]

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Hi all We had a pretty smooth flight but no sleep and made it safely to LA and got through the admin stuff pretty well at the airport. We cabbed to the Motorhome place and had to sort a few issues there before we were on our way. Glad I knew what I had booked and paid for because they didn’t seem to. Driving out of LA was a bit challenging, the GPS was flat and wasn’t charging, the motorhome is kind of big with side mirrors that stick way out and of course I had to drive on the wrong [View Full Entry]

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Hi there friends We are off tomorrow (Tuesday) on a trip to the USA. The first leg of the trip involves 31 days of touring through Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California starting and finishing in LA. We have hired a motorhome for this leg and will be following a plan I have put together to see the sights. We then fly up to Anchorage in Alaska and from there north again to Deadhorse, the very top of Alaska on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Here we start a 17day guided tour through Alaska finishing in Anchorage. We fly back to [View Full Entry]

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Just a note to let everyone know we got home safe last night. Thanks to all for your supporting emails and comments. Big thanks to our parents and our travel agent Dean Tuckwell at "The Adventure Traveller". Also to Liz Kirby at Wild Dog safaris. Cheers Brett and Corinne [View Full Entry]

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Hello All Corinne and I have had an unfortunate incident which I will summarise here. During our tour with Wild Dog Safaris in Namibia we were camping at the Okajima/Africat complex about 200kms north of the capital of Windhoek. At 3am local time on the 2nd of February our camp was attacked. A group of men with guns and knives slashed our tents with knives and then pulled all of the 9 people in our group and the 3 guides from our tents and dragged us into the middle of the camp and pushed us to the ground, a few [View Full Entry]

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Hi all Just a quick note to let you know we are off on our latest adventure. Currently at Singapore airport awaiting our flight to Johannesburg in South Africa. It is 3am Australian time as I write this, still have another 90mins until the flight leaves. Once we arrive in Joburg (at 7.30am local time) we have a 3 hour wait till the flight to Windhoek in Namibia. Should be there by 1pm local time. Will be a long day. Or is that long two days! Singapore airport is huge. Not sure if it is actually a shopping centre with an [View Full Entry]

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