Blogs from Footscray, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

Well we are on the count down again, 6 days til we fly. Starting to get a little bit excited!! Arrive LA 20/1/2015 - then doing an 11 day road trip from LA to Fort Lauderdale via Route 10 - staying Phoenix, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston, overnight with our gorgeous friends Blake and Suzy in Lafayette, Pascagoula, Perry, Osprey, Miama and Fort Lauderdale. Then embark on a 49 day cruise on the Ruby Princess around South America ending in LA on 22nd March visiting Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Barbados, Granada, Trinidad, Salvador Brazil, Santos Brazil, Rio De Janeiro for 2 days catching the last day of Carnival, Buenos Aires Argentina, Montevideo Uruguay, Stanley Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, Ushuaia Argentina, Punta Arenas Chile, Valparaiso Chile, La Serena Chile, Pisco Peru, Lima Peru, Puntarenas Costa Rica, ... read more

Preparing for our big trip to the US, Cuba and South America. Just found out two days ago that we have to have yellow fever vaccination and that is compulsory to enter Cuba so have had to organise that. We head off on the 7th April, Easter Saturday, Melbourne - Sydney- Dallas Fort Worth - Lafayette for two weeks then head down to San Juan on the 19th April to join cruise around Carribean for one week. We then leave our American friends and fly to Cuba for a 10 day tour, then to Lima for 4 nights there before joining tour of Peru ending in Le Paz, then flying down to Santiago in Chile for 5 nights before heading back to Melbourne... read more