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March 19, 2019 How wonderful today has been. I had a great interview this morning, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed. AND…I’m going on another grand adventure! One that I hope to be able to blog about a little better than my last. I ran into some technical difficulties while in New Zealand, and then […]

Sunday, January 27, 2019 “Kia Ora is an expression in the Māori language, and simple means “hello”. Literally translated it has a meaning of “be well or healthy”. Today we flew to Queenstown, New Zealand, and then drove to Te Anau.  New Zealand is made up of North and South Island, as the Kiwi’s refer to the 2 main […]

Saturday, January 26, 2019 Today is Australian Day, which is when Australia celebrates its Independence Day. That being said, it is a very controversial day. The aborigines call this day Invasion Day, and there are many protests that go on throughout the country. It is a day of sorrow and mourning for the aborigines. We […]

Friday, January 25, 2019 Wow! Another amazing day! We started the day with a 4 hour tour of Sydney. Sydney is a huge city, and now officially one of my top 5 favorite cities. It’s beautiful! The tour guide, Brad, is amazing. And the group of people I’m with are so wonderful. Everyone looks after […]

Thursday, January 24, 2019 We started the day in Cairns with an amazing hot air balloon ride. I’d never been in a hot air balloon before, so I was really excited. What a wonderful, peaceful, meditative way to start the day. The balloon slowly and gradually rose in the air as the sun was also […]

Wednesday, January 22, 2019 We took a train ride through the beautiful rainforest.  Construction of the Cairns-Kuranda Railway was, and still is, an engineering feat of tremendous magnitude.  The Kuranda Scenic Railway travels on a narrow gauge which measures 3 feet and 6 inches.  We explored the quaint and charming city of Kuranda with it’s […]

Tuesday, January 21, 2019 What an exciting day!  In the morning we took a 1 ½ hour cruise out to the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral bed, and also the world’s largest living thing.  People – let me tell you – I have never seen so many people vomiting in my whole life!  […]

Monday, January 21, 2019 This morning we got up close to Uluru – the world’s largest monolith and a worship site for Aboriginals for over 20,000 years.  We visited the cultural center and saw cave drawings in Kata Tjuta.  After our adventures in the outback, we boarded a flight to Cairns, a coastal city in […]

Sunday, January 20, 2019I come from the Dreamtime, from the dusty red soil plainsI am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flamesI stood upon the rocky shore, I watched the tall ships comeFor eighty thousand years I’ve been the first Australian.The outback…. It is very hard to explain this sacred place. To the indigenous […]

Alice Springs Saturday, January 19, 2019 We left Melbourne today and took a 3 hour flight to Alice Springs in the outback.  One of the most fascinating characteristics about Australia is the vast outback.  Australia is about the size of the U.S (minus Alaska and Hawaii).  That being said, the population of Australia is 24.6 […]