packed and ready to go

Bon Voyage

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February 12th 2007
Well this is my first of what will likely be many travel blog entries and to be honest I am a little unfamiliar with this form of writing. It has taken me three weeks of procrastinating about what I should be writing, so I hope its gets a bit easier. The journey begins in Brisbane, Australia and 24 hours out from starting the trip I still had not started packing my bags, however the pages of ' ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more