Zion National Park
This morning we drove about 260 kilometres north to Zion National Park in Southern Utah. For most of the way along Interstate Highway 15, the countryside consisted of a dry flat broad valley between two small mountain ranges. The is the main highway to Salt Lake City and it was surprisingly busy. We were constantly […]
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Flying to Las Vegas
Long distance air travel is arduous and it has taken us twenty six hours from leaving Melbourne to reach our hotel in Las Vegas. Our trip began with a pleasant journey to the airport, driven by our friend Stuart who keeps this hire car immaculate and is always a pleasure to travel with. Check in […]
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Travelling Home from Canberra
We have been travelling home over the last two days. The weather has been exceptionally hot but air conditioned cars have made it at least tolerable. We left Canberra on Sunday as early as we could manage and stopped at the little village of Cockington Green on our way out of Canberra. This is a […]
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It’s Hot in Canberra
It’s been 38 C degrees in Canberra (100.4 F) for the last two days and we are beginning to melt. We leave to come back home tomorrow morning and both Canberra and Albury (our overnight stop will both be 38C again as well. We have been trying to focus on indoor activities that are cooler, […]
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Visiting Parliament House and the Mint
Today, we visited two veritable Australian institutions – Parliament House and the Royal Australian Mint. Both had fantastic tours that enabled the girls to understand their purpose and operations. I am always proud to visit our Parliament. We have a very stable democracy and parliament is the central institution that ensures this continues. There are […]
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Canberra – A Day of Reminiscing
We spent our first day in Canberra visiting some places that have been significant to our family. In the morning, we drove over to the city of Queanbeyan, just across the ACT border into NSW. It was here that Jill’s grandfather was the Inspector of Police before he retired. He had originally lived in the […]
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On Our Way to Canberra
We are visiting the Nation’s capital, Canberra with Cathy and her girls. We spent two leisurely days driving here from Melbourne. We met up with Cathy at the roadhouse cafe near Wallan, north of Melbourne and then continued along the Hume Highway. Our first stop was just north of Seymour at Fowles Winery who make […]
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Port Fairy
Port Fairy is a cute little town on the Moyne River about 290 kilometres west of Melbourne. We are staying there for a few days. Port Fairy was first settled by sealers and whalers in the early 19th century. Whaling continued until the 1840’s by when, stocks of coastal whales were depleted. Before the whaling station closed […]
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Ending Our Silo Tour Along the Murray River
We headed home from our overnight stay, and wonderful dinner, in Mildura planning to take a couple of days to meander along the Murray Valley Highway through Swan Hill and Echuca. The Murray is Australia’s longest river, at 2,508 kilometres in length. It rises in the Australian Alps, and drains the western side of Australia’s highest […]
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Silos Tour – Part Two
Heading north from Warracknabeal, we first stopped at the little town of Brim. I have a friend who plays senior cricket and one of his compatriots is the owner of the Brim General Store. Wavel MacPherson is over eighty years age and plays in a national over-seventies cricket competition. I found him in his office […]
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Silos Tour – Part One
Today, we started our real tour of the silos. We began our day with n extended look around the town of Stawell and then visited the silos at Rupunyap, Sheep Hills and Brim. We are staying overnight in Warracknabeal. Before leaving Stawell, we stopped in the main street to see if we could find the […]
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Beginning Our Silo Art Trail Tour
We are taking this week off to visit half a dozen tiny entrepreneurial towns in the Wimmera and Mallee Regions of Western Victoria that have decorated their old grain silos with murals to form a giant outdoor art gallery. We will combine our visit into a circular tour that includes the Grampians the Murray River […]
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