Blogs from Hurstville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Just letting you all know that Noel and I are meant to be flying in to Perth on the 4th of May for another 8 week travel adventure. Subject to Covid-19 NOT ruining another holiday, we will be Airbnb-ing in South Perth for a week before picking up our 6 berth motorhome for 6 weeks, followed by 5 nights with great friends, Lesley and Michael, in Broome. If you prefer not to receive my blog posts please send me a quick reply to this message and I will delete your email from my list of subscribers. Thank you all and please pray for lockdowns to be over before May 4!!! xxx... read more

Last year I was silly/brave enough to welcome a stranger, from Austria, into my house for 6 months. Fortunately that stranger turned out to be the most wonderful young lady and she was a blessing to me during a really tough time with my mum and a scary health issue. Hannah was such a sweetheart and I grew to love her and was very proud to call her my "pretend daughter" to everyone. Well my pretend daughter decided to leave me in March and fly home to her real family and I miss her a lot, so I decided to be an annoying parent and invite myself over to visit with her in beautiful Klingfurth Austria! I am very grateful for the wonderful cyber friendship I have made with Hannah's mum, Petra, and I sure do ... read more

Dearest friends from around the World It is only 20 more days until Noel and I vacate Australia and head on off to the beautiful United States (YES again!!!) for yet another adventure. Nine glorious weeks away from household chores, work, family worries and those awful children of ours. JUST JOKING BOYS!!!!! :) If anyone who receives this email would prefer NOT to receive any of my hilarious and informative blogs please let me know now, so that I can delete your email from my listing of "special people" in my life (but don't expect a Christmas card if you do). A special "thank you" in advance to the wonderful Paulette and Larry from Woodbridge Connecticut and my lovely Texas pen pal Cathie and her husband Barney from Waller Texas for allowing Noel and I to ... read more

Well the bookings are nearly all done. We are flying out of Sydney in exactly 22 weeks from today. Thank you Fiji Airways for a great price on the days that I wanted to travel. There's nothing much else I can do now until July when I will be able to organise my last minute accommodations in Vancouver, Lake Louise and Anchorage. I'll have to book some hire cars late July too. In the meantime I need to hope that the AUD/USD exchange rate improves for my spending money that we'll need. It's getting so exciting!... read more

It is 2:09am and i have finally FINISHED packing! what a trial that was! After a whole day of running around doing errands and being manic...i had to figure out how to fit the next 3 weeks of my life into a backpack. Unfortunately I didn't succeed and in fact succumbed to the lure of the suitcase instead. With the help of the very experienced and well traveled Phuongy (much love woman! We managed to organise and cull the mountain of stuff that was on my bed. Thanks for all the support, and the cheese helped heaps too! Where would I be if you weren't there to save me from myself and over-packing (like I normally do). So, now it's off for the last sleep in my own bed for the next 3 weeks. Trying my ... read more