June 25th – 27th, 2018, on the flight to Australia, you lose a day, so even though we left on the evening of June 25th, we didn’t arrive into Sydney until the morning of June 27th. We left Austin around 6 p.m to fly into Los Angeles, where we had…
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Packing List for Australia
Hi All! As we are getting ready to leave for our trip later this afternoon, I thought that I would take a few minutes to share with y’all what we are packing to go on a 3 1/2 week long journey to Australia. We are obviously traveling in June and…
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Heading to Australia!
Hi All, I would first like to thank those of you that are following my travel blog and apologize for the serious lack of content for the last several months. We are leaving for Australia tomorrow and will be traveling all around for the next 3 1/2 weeks, so please,…
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Gorgeous Storm Clouds – Day 6
Today, we had planned for an indoor day, because according to the weather, it was going to be really wet with lots of rain. We slept in a little bit and decided to hit the gym before we sat down for breakfast. While running on the treadmill I was mesmerized…
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Day 5 – Started Out Slow, Finished Strong
February 4, 2018 This morning I woke up in a crabby mood. I am actually kind of embarrassed to admit that, after all, we are in Hawaii, staying in a beautiful resort, in a room overlooking the beach. Unfortunately, you can’t always control how you feel, even when we really…
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Day 4 – Busy Day in Paradise
February 3, 2018 Today we decided that we were going to test our legs out on the ocean and rent some paddle boards. We tried yesterday, but the “surf” guy didn’t show up for work, so we were unable to rent the boards. We paddle board all of the time…
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Day 3 – Did you really just do that?
February 2, 2018 Today’s blog post is going to be about rude people. You know, the ones with no concept that they aren’t the only ones occupying the earth. Yes, those people. It was my day to have to deal with a couple of them. Unfortunately, they are able to…
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Day 2 – Reality in Paradise
February 1, 2018 Since I was still on Austin time and fell asleep at 8 pm last night, I was up and wide awake at 4:30 this morning. Tried to lay in bed until about 6 and got up to watch the sun rise off in the distance. Breakfast buffet…
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Day 1 – Travel Day to Honolulu
January 31, 2018 Today we are heading to Honolulu. Hawaii is one of our very favorite places and we usually like to go a couple of times a year and haven’t been since the beginning of July 2017, so we decided it was a good time to go again. Unfortunately,…