http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/cabochick/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from cabochick en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:57:01 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:57:01 +0000 Odd how one song can make up the soundtrack of your life Soundgarden just happened to be playing as I peered down from the plane window to see the blackest sand beaches desperately trying to flee dense jungle. The song seemed weirdly appropriate.My seatmate asked There is going to be a runway some time soon right We were only about two feet off the turquoise ocean when we suddenly hit pav http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Este/Baracoa/blog-457075.html Click your heels together and take a deep breath because as any world traveller will tell you there's no place like home. So why are we all so anxious and excited to go anywhere but I admit. I am one of those that have a travellers soul. Hell bent on seeing every square inch of this world carbon footprint or not. I want to see all the wonders of the world...I want to dip my toes in every s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Chilliwack/blog-375931.html Greetings from Sydney This 'Canuck' couldn't possibly come all the way down unda without seeing Sydney could I After a glorious six weeks of Queensland and the nuclear Outback a small stopover in Sydney seemed reasonable. Not a huge fan of cities but Sydney is lovely a mass of skyscrappers with flocks of business suits frantically navigating the midday city streets with cell phones stuck to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-410648.html Cabochick Yeah that's me. What can I say. I know Cabo. I've been lucky enough to travel to this part of Mexico for over 30 years now. Los Cabos is located at the tip of the Baja pennisula which is 'the Capes' for the espanolchallenged. The entire area includes two main towns called Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo connected by endless beaches and a fourlane highway called 'the Corrido http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/San-Jose-del-Cabo/blog-368949.html For two commonwealth countries it's freakishly weird how different Australia and Canada are in the language department. We are speaking the same language aren't we Straight off the plane I was immersed into an entirely new vocabulary. A simple no becomes nawah. Eighteen becomes ahdeen. Then there are all the little Aussieisms....heaps I reckon cheers nawah worries good on ya bewdy http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-333870.html I am walking in a vat of flour. Okay.....itrsquos not flour but it feels like flour. I cannot believe my eyes. This flour beach is a spectacular moon of powdery silica so white you must shade your eyes from the intense glare. For some reason I hear that song by U2....running to stand still....but perhaps it is only the relentless hum from the helicopter rotor blades that has just dropped u http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-354911.html How do you describe Australia's landscape with enough adjectives to do it any justice I have seen colours I didn't know existed. In the Outback sand so red that it appears almost three dimensional to the naked eye fringed in a blue hue. Ghost gums so breathtakingly stark against mintgreen foliage you touch their trunks to confirm they are indeed real. Snuggled deep down in a canvas swag http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-333875.html Up until now I belived there was only three options when it came to travel...1.Tour groups 2.Backpacking 3. Resort dweller. I hate all three. Okay hate is a harsh word. How about dislike. I dislike all three.Why Well the unknownness of tour groups terrifies me the thought of paying extravagant amounts of money to be stuck with a bunch of people I don't know maybe all older than dirt http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/La-Paz/blog-309515.html