Dafne
Dafne G Joined: February 15th 2007
Logged in: February 9th 2012
Logged in: February 9th 2012
Flash forward and I'm now 25 and studying at the University of Southern California in sunny Los Angeles. As an urban planning major, I wanted to be in a big, exciting city- and the nice weather here doesn't hurt! I will try to upload photos and stories as much as possible.
Travel Blog Posts
At breakfast
From December 10-12, I headed down to San Diego with my friends from urban planning. We stayed with my friend Tiffany and celebrated her birthday. We also visited some of the sites around this beautiful coastal city, particularly in Encinitas, La Jolla and Coronado. I hope to return one day to visit the zoo - no one would go with me this trip! -Dafne... read more
Malibu Pier
Once again, the stories are in the photos. I went camping with my program. I watched some hockey. I had some skating competitions. There is lots of school spirit. And I visited more of this awesome city. Holidays begin...today so many more adventures to come! -Dafne... read more
On the Buzz Lightyear Adventure (Disneyland)
Hello all, I have neglected this blog with the busy-ness of life so I thought I would just attach some photos of my life so far in LA for you all to enjoy. Here is a quick peek at the last 3 months! -Dafne... read more
Vacuum Outlet
I've been in LA for 2 weeks now but since Travel Blog wasn't letting me upload photos for a while there, I am only now getting around to putting up photos from the rest of the trip. After Missouri, we drove southwest into Oklahoma City for a lunch break and a quick trip to a new outlet mall. On the way, we stopped at a Route 66 stop - Pops, home to HUNDREDS of pop varieties. One bottle of Lenin-ade later and we were back on our way. After lunch in O-City, upon returning to the car, we were horrified to find that the air conditioner had stopped working - right in the middle of the hottest day of the entire trip! The temperature was at a sweaty 45 degrees celsius (this is before humidity) or ... read more
Willis Tower
Greetings friends! It is currently night 2 of my epic road trip across America! I am driving from Toronto to Los Angeles in 5 days in order to visit this country and also move myself and my car to LA for grad school at USC. Night 1 was in Chicago, which was a great city. I've posted some photos for you all to enjoy. We crossed at Sarnia and drove through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. Now we're in Springfield, Missouri. We only drove through Illinois and Missouri today. We're loving this state - St. Louis is fantastic and the hotels are super cheap and REALLY nice here in Springfield! I also got to live out a childhood dream at the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead museum. I actually walked in her house! That she built with her ... read more
Melbourne Botanical Gardens
Ok I've got a lot to say here but I'll probably rely on the pictures to do most of the talking in the interest of not boring you all...I've got a crazy game of catch-up to play in this blog but hopefully now that exams are done I'll be successful! Botanical Gardens and a random trip to Monash Uni On the 3rd, Danae and I decided to visit the Melbourne botanical gardens. It had been a 'thing' in Sydney that we always arrived at the botanical gardens just after they closed, so we wanted to make sure we saw these ones! They were very pretty, and we had a good time being kids and playing around in the grass. A highlight was a craft cottage up on a hill where people got together to make crafts ... read more
Symbiotica Pigeon
My life upon my return from the east coast was not very exciting. Mostly I was in the library doing school work and listening to lectures I'd missed. I'll list some of the exciting things I did in between my library lock-down. Infusion Team Dinner Friday the 14th was our end-of-season team dinner. It was nice seeing everyone again, although there was general shock that Danae had lost her skates. Freo with Mayumi Waaay back before I left for the east coast, I met a Japanese girl named Mayumi. Well she was about to go back to Japan when I got back (her english course was finishing) so we made a little trip to Fremantle on the 16th before she left. We went to see the ocean and had dinner so that was nice. Infusion Auditions ... read more
Danae and Dafne in the car
Off on an adventure! Early on the 1st, Danae, Dana, and I headed off to see the Great Ocean Road, a scenic road along the south coast of Victoria. It is the most scenic road in all of Australia, and is a very popular tourist destination. We rented a car for the trip, so we could go along at our own pace. Some random stops along the way: Geelong, so Dana could have her picture taken outside the Ford plant (apparently she loves Ford). We also hit up Torquay to see the surfers and browse through THE HOME of surfing gear - Roxy, Billabong, RipCurl - this is where they started from! A Torquay highlight was definitely my $5 fish and chips which were AMAZING. Another random Torquay highlight was when we drove past a group ... read more
Dafne and Danae ride the train
11 Hours on a Train Thursday, August 30th was spent on a train. For 11 hours, Danae and I headed through the farmland of central New South Wales and into Victoria, the state just south of NSW. We saw many sheep and an endless supply of rolling hills. And we learned about some interesting town names, such as my favourite, The Rock. Highlight of the trip: the staff thinking we were tourists. Well I guess we were but like they thought we were fresh off the plane tourists or something. And they thought Danae was foreign, which was extra funny. One guy approached us and said he'd "heard" we wanted to see kangaroos. We said no, we hadn't said such things. He nonetheless promised we'd see some when we got to Victoria. Funnily enough, Danae saw ... read more
Danae enjoys "Fair Dinkum Night"
Fair Dinkum Night! Monday night, upon our return to Sydney, Danae and I had some exciting plans. For Monday night was Sydney Central YHA's "Fair Dinkum Night"! Danae (being the tacky tourist that she is) decided we just had to experience this truly Aussie night (note: Danae is Australian). And it was pretty good, for $3 you got a hot dog AND a beer. After that fun time, we decided enough was enough and we were going to have a PROPER night out in Sydney. So we got all dressed up and headed to a random pub called "The 3 Monkeys" on George st. There was an awesome live band when we arrived, but the place cleared out once they stopped. So we decided to hop in a cab with two other girls we met and ... read more
