Sorry Folks! I just realized we never did our highlights from Australia so I started a blog to jot down thoughts and accidentally hit publish instead of Save Draft! Getting use to using a mouse again I guess. Chad Great Barrier Reef – Went with kinda low expectations since we’ve had such amazing dives elsewhere and in 2002 it...
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” ― Emily Dickinson It is fun to look back at this adventure as a whole. We focus so much on the moment each day that it is great to slow down towards the end and take a trip down memory lane. Our dinner conversation has become about...
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson When we landed in Brisbane we picked up a rental car to spend 2 weeks...
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden Shia really wanted to add Australia to the roster based primarily on her love for Koala and Kangaroo. Somehow she got her way, even though it is winter here right now. We decided against Turkey/Greece/Bulgaria (where we originally intended to end our trip)...
The more I see the less I know for sure. – John Lennon On this trip we predominantly visited places we’d never been before, but Thailand was one we loved in 2002 and we were anxious to see how it had changed. We chose to kick it off in Phuket. We’ve always heard mixed reviews about Phuket and this...
Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone It was likely a combination of factors; the beginning of summer vacation back home, Liam’s birthday, and the limited time remaining of our global trek, but for this segment the...
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad of new sights, smells, and sounds, but with experiencing first hand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. – Ralph Crawshaw We wrapped up our visit to India in Darjeeling, however being close...
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu And Grandma makes 5. For two weeks Grandma (Heidi’s mom) joined our pack of nomads. Chad developed his thirst for travel based on his own sincere curiosity. Heidi’s was inherited. Her Mom left the country solo at age 21 on her first plane flight...
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller We couldn’t resist the temptation of Egypt and after seeing Liam’s passion for the...
Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. ― Sukhraj S. Dhillon We realized that our blogs show a skewed perspective of our favorite moments that occur during our lives on the road. However, interwoven with those moments are hot and dusty...