The big ticket item for today was a visit to Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg was founded as the capital of the Virginia Colony in 1699. The young city grew quickly into the center of political, religious, economic, and social life in Virginia. With the establishment of the Willam and Mary college, Williamsburg…
Thank goodness for a better nights sleep last night, mostly due to exhaustion but I’ll take whatever I can get! Despite the better sleep we were still up pretty early and tucking into our continental breakfast by 7.30am. It was already warm when we hit the road and drove south…
When we left the USA in 2019 we fully expected to be back a year later to continue our 50 States bucket list…. but then, you know what happened … who could have expected a global pandemic. We were pretty lucky when the travel restrictions hit with the onset of…
Thursday It was only an hours drive from the Adelaide river into the centre of Darwin. I’d booked us into the Adina Darwin Waterfront Apartment Hotel, which is located in the middle of the extensive ‘Darwin Waterfront” precinct. This area is lovely, somewhat similar in style to Darling Harbour in…
Wednesday We woke to another beautiful day looking out into the canopy from our treetop bedroom. Another BBQ brekky before we packed up and left the Hideaway behind at around 9 am. We wanted to see one more nearby waterhole before leaving Litchfield, it was only a few minutes drive…
Every trip has it’s hiccups… and hopefully we’ve now had ours….. Everything started well as we left Uluru… Sunday Back on the road again! After saying goodbye ot the others we packed up and checked out and filled the bus with diesel before heading out on the long road back…
Three fun days with five fantastic friends! I must add thanks here to Steve and Greg for use of some of their photos. Day 1 The next few days were very much anticipated. Back in September last year Neil and I had been tossing around ideas for holidays, the dodgy…
Day 1 – Conquering the Rim Today was one of the days we’d really been looking forward to as we planned to hike the iconic Kings Canyon Rim walk. The official classification of the walk is Grade 4 – Moderate to Difficult and “The rim walk starts with a difficult…
Today was planned as the big “Scenic Drive” of the trip and it lived up to all our expectations. It started with an attempt to fix a minor hiccup – somehow I’d managed to leave behind my warmest jacket ( I’m really out of practise with packing) so after checking…
Well thanks to the COVID 19 Pandemic, 2020 was a bust for travel, but we’re determined to do our bit in 2021…so here we are in the Northern Territory for two weeks! A few years ago we had a short 3 night break at Uluru to see the Field of…
We enjoyed the “cooked to order” breakfast in the Embassy suites this monring. The breakfasts do vary a lot from hotel chain to chain, Holiday Inn Express have their cinnamon rollls, and the hanptons have a really nice selectio of fancy smoothies but the Embassy suites do cooked to order…
So today we went over 100 miles out of our way to see a big ball of string… We had some major things to look forward to today! In fact I think Neil had planned the trip around the first of our sites, as it had originally beenon his plans…
