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School holidays ruin everything. The Australian and New Zealand School holidays have ruined my plans for keeping our end date on our trip to Asia as flexible as possible. We were hoping to simply [...]

Today we headed down to Brisbane to get our visa for Thailand processed and to have a bit of fun on the South Bank. Brisbane is about an hour and a half drive from where we are on the Sunshine [...]

Having some fun this afternoon. Pushing his face up against the fly screen door. This is a face that only a mother (and father) could think is beautiful. Reuben you are oh so funny. My little [...]

We’ve only been waiting for two weeks but we’ve finally go some sun here on the Sunshine Coast. What a relief it was to get outside today and enjoy it. I only managed a couple of [...]

When you think of Las Vegas, you think of Sin City and everything that term conjures up – drinking, gambling, night clubs, drunken weddings to strippers. While those adult activities are [...]

I’ve been blogging away here for two weeks now. I have yet to write anything about where we are now. Why? Because it’s raining. It’s been raining for two weeks. Two weeks of [...]

Last week I posted Our Travel Wishlist. After posting, a friend asked me: What about all the great stuff in New Zealand? Why isn’t any of that on your list? New Zealand sees 2.5 million [...]

In less than six weeks we are heading for our first family trip to Thailand (and Asia for that matter). I’ve been to Thailand loads of times, more times than I can count without checking [...]

1. Book your rental car from an overseas website. Booking from within the US can work out more than twice as expensive. Check the .co.uk, the .com.au and the .co.nz versions of car rental sites. [...]

Over three weeks in November and December 2011, we hired a car and did a three week roadtrip across the South West of the United States of America.  Our trip covered four states – Nevada, [...]