First up for the day was breakfast at the casa of fruit, coffee, juice, bread & eggs and then it was time to explore Santa Clara which now that it was light we discovered was not scary & the Main Street & square were only a block away. Our first task for the day was to organise transport to Trinidad for tomorrow so we walked the few kms to the bus station which was crazy & disorganised. We waited in a line with a number of other foreigners behind ...

Today we were off to Cuba but firstly we had to tackle sending a box of winter clothes to Australia so we didn't have to lug them around all the hot countries we would now be travelling. $107 later our 6.5kg box was hopefully heading for home & we were soon heading for the airport for our West Jet flight to Santa Clara, Cuba. With $13.40 left in change we had 2 x soup meals at Tim Hortons (soup/chilli, roll, coffee & donut) which totalled exactly that. At...

A relaxed kind of day today after a busy one yesterday. We leisurely enjoyed our buffet breakfast, mum even scoring a loaf of gluten-free bread, then went to check the post office hours a few blocks away & stumbled upon an antique market when I managed to buy a new travel wallet for $5! We keep wandering through the old town area, although not much was open and then finally found the residents of Toronto all keeping wam (or hot as the case was) in the shoppin...

After only a 3 hours flight (& sleeping for maybe 2 of it) we arrived in NYC where we had to farewell Jess & Sean as went our separate ways. With little sleep but plenty of enthusiasm mum & I headed towards the air train to conquer as much as we could during our 7hr stopover. From the air train we took the 'A' train/subway into Fulton street to firstly see ground zero which was no longer squares of temporary fencing like when I was here in 2003 but we...

It's Christmas!! For something completely different from the usual we are going hiking through the snow today but first we needed a big breakfast of scrambled eggs & turkey bacon that mum cooked up. We were heading past Boulder to the Hesse trailhead & taking the trail up to Lost Lake. From where we parked the car it was more than half a mile to the start of the trail, then a 2.88 miles return hike from there. We bought Dalton with us & he loved leapi...