Melbourne

Melbourne to PDX

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September 23rd 2008
This blog entry on 9/23 will be the last of our trip to Australia. We wrapped up with a day of exploring Melbourne, more shopping, visiting the Royal Botanical Garden, and packing to go home. We leave Melbourne on Wednesday morning and arrive in LAX on Wednesday morning, arriving back in PDX by Wednesday afternoon. The international date line helps us quite a bit as we return home after traveli ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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