Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 5) The afternoon following the Australian Grand Prix, we embarked on a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney in an effort to see some of the country side. We could’ve done this in eight hours by taking the M1, but we decided to take the Princes Highway to […]
Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 4) How could two race lovers visit their daughter and son-in-law in Melbourne while the Grand Prix season opener was happening and not attend? We decided to get grounds passes, rather than grand stand or marquee passes, because then we would have access to the entire track and […]
Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 2) In the two and a half years that we’ve traveled this massive, beautiful country, I believe that the Great Ocean Road is one of the most beautiful places that exists here. It was our first weekend away when we moved here (The Great Ocean Road in 2 […]
Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 1) As we were planning their trip, my Mom and I discussed that a day of wine tasting in the Yarra Valley would be fun, and beautiful. Fortunately, all of our friends also LOVE wine and a day was already in the cards. After all, Lynette, Aaron and […]
2014 was a big year for us. We moved across the world, made new friends, caught up with old friends, travelled a lot and got married. I challenged myself (and Ben) to think through the past 12 months, choose the highlights and find a photo to go with it. January We went to our first […]
…is the continent that you live on. I am blessed enough to have darling friends (and family who are friends) in both America and Australia who threw me a Bachelorette Party and a Hen’s Night. My Bachelorette Party, thrown in Minneapolis, was hosted by my sister Jackie and cousin Jessi. They rented rooms at the […]
To go with our awesome wedding, we received an awesome wedding gift from a very dear friend: A Scenic Flight for 2 over Melbourne. We took off from Essendon Fields and headed for Williamstown. After dropping from 1500 to 200 meters to view Williamstown, we flew over the beach toward Port Melbourne and Albert Park. […]
We live in one of Australia’s many wine countries and have not visited any. Fortunately, Geelong plans an annual tasting event with a bussing service: Toast to the Coast. We signed up for both the tasting tickets and the bus tickets. Our friends had gone the year prior and suggested that we arrive early and […]
8 – 10 March 2014 We talked about going away for Labour Day Weekend, but Astrid and Gizmo had only just arrived and were still adjusting to our new home in Australia. Anyway, that’s what I claimed when we hadn’t yet made plans and the long weekend had arrived. So I quick did some research […]
I took Friday off originally to go snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, but then decided to be responsible and purchase a much needed refrigerator. The blue cooler really wasn’t cutting it. I toyed with canceling my day off, but ultimately decided to take it as a stay-cation day. On about Wednesday, we decided this […]