Today, Sunday 18th Jan, found me back at the D'Aguilar Range. Yesterday I discovered how close we live to the reservoir. On Sundays, Janet works a shift 5 minutes down the road from the reservoir. By the time I got home, I had a plan… Tomorrow (now today) was Sunday. Janet would be working at The Gap. "Janet - wanna go for a swim tomorrow?" 'Yes!" The heat was ridiculous again and I forbade Janet to spend an hour and half catching trains, buses and walkin...

So yesterday, Saturday 17th Jan, this little introvert was feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, so she decided to run away. I took off up into the D'Aguilar Range. It had been YEARS, like 9 years, since I had last been up here, but the memory of its beauty has stuck with me. Since moving to the Northside of Brissie a year ago, I hadn't realised that I was just 29 minutes away from the 'gateway' of the D'Aguilar, but now I do know! First stop was Walkabout C...

Well, I am back in Australia, my month in USA with Scott over so quickly. It is going to be at least a year before I can go back over, there are various reasons, one being I am out of annual leave and my boss has threatened to chain me to my desk if I think of leaving again We left Wendi's and had a change of pace from wildfires - we encountered hail storms instead. The hail may have been small, but it hurt! We got caught in two hail storms on the very firs...

Fire, fire, everywhere. So my last post said that we couldn't visit Yosemite because it was burning and that we would instead go to Sequoia - but we had to ditch that too because it was burning. Pretty much the whole of the West Coast is choked in smoke from all the forest fires. We decided to just head on up to Oregon, which meant I had to go on 'radio silence', as we were embarking on a surprise visit to Scott's foster mum, Rhonda, whom he hadn't seen in sev...

Hi everyone, been out of touch with the wifi and I know some of you are keen to know what has been happening. So from Long Beach, we went out through Azusa, and up to the San Gabriel Mountains. We parked the bike at the parking lot, a mile long walk into 'base camp' Heaton Flats and then hiked 4 miles up into the mountains to camp overnight with a bunch of prospectors (Daniel, Jay, Fernando, Charlie, Ashleigh, Carl and Larry)- yes, really, true blue prospectors...