Sydney City Living An apartment in the city is enchanting. Our situation here needs a few tweaks to achieve total sweetness, we've had to sort through dust mites, dried up sewer traps and continuing internet access issues, but these annoyances aside it has really been fun for Joe and I to relive the city life this time with the kids. I love the whole lack-of-space forced paradigm shift replacing costco trips with just-in-time delivery. It pushes the burde...

Sydney First Impressions. Our digs are dusty, not good, an issue to resolve. That aside, there is a very friendly vibe here in Sydney. There are banners all over that read this is our city in/ summer. The weather simply cannot be better. I expect this to be my best January on record. Over the course of 4 hours we walked a good portion of the city from China town to Darling Harbor to the Rocks and Opera House area. During our trek we happened upon the...

Whitsundays Islands 3rd entry Jet lag has gifted our entire time here with the magnificence of the moments just before dawn. First, a cacophony of jungle noises. Calls and screeches permeate the air. They seem to warn nocturnes to return to their lairs. Once the sun shows the noise immediately dissipates to the occasional rant. Humidity streams on glass, but the unrelenting equatorial sun burns it away moments after rising from the sky. The flying foxe...

Whitsundays 2nd entry After last posting I had a nagging feeling of familiarity that finally blossomed into illumination. Oceanic flight from LAX, Whitsunday Islands…I wonder just how long it will be before Desmond tries to recruit one of us to start entering code every 108 minutes. LOST! And wow does this term adequately describe my first Whitsunday post. The good news is we have since been found. We are all hydrated, waking at 4:30am instead of 3am ...

We got on the plane at LAX on the 29th and arrived in this balmy place the 31st- New Years Eve. We crossed the international date line and are now GMT+ instead of GMT- It took us by surprise. With all the other things on our minds the fact it would go down like that escaped us. Two plane rides and a boat trip later and here we are in the Whitsundays. There is 300% humidity- I have to chew the air before I breathe it, which I don't like at all (never been a...