Once upon a time in 1976, three American teachers arrived in Warren, New South Wales, Australia on a two year teaching contract. One was an Art teacher named Howard Michaels and later nicknamed 'The Swank Yank' who came from Paterson, New Jersey. Americans numbers two and three were husband and wife team of Bob and Sally Konowicz. Bob was a Phys Ed teacher who also came from New Jersey as did Howard, while wife Sally taught Special Education and was originally ...

We arrived at Heathrow airport after dropping off the hire car with plenty of time to spare after all we had 3 hours until departure - or so we thought. That can't be right said Kerrie after studying the departure board. Oh yes it can! Damn, our American Airlines flight to Chicago was delayed for four hours. Never mind, ever resourceful Kerrie decided she just had more time for Duty Free shopping - Greg was not impressed! With plenty of vacant seats on our flig...

The overnight sea route across the English Channel from the Hook of Holland to Harwich in England is more like a cruise ship holiday than transport on a vehicular ferry. Resplendant with ensuite TV equipped cabins, restaurants, duty free shopping, movie theatre and coffee shops make the overnight voyage very relaxing. When coupled with a beer or wine or two it is easy to sleep the journey away in your cabin and wake up safe and sound in Old Blighty. Around 7pm w...

"The good news is we will be riding on the Autobahn for the next two days," says Greg this sunny Monday morning. Then he says "The bad news is we will be riding on the Autobahn for the next two days!" Good news because the roads are fantastic and you can cover lots of kilometres in a short time. Bad news for Greg because his concentration levels need to be spot on to negotiate the huge number of unpredictable trucks, the roadworks and speeding cars - just to kee...

Riding through the lush Czech and German countryside is a motorcycle rider's dream. Wonderful weather, sweeping curves, great roads, sweet smelling pine forests and everything green, green, green. There were lakes between the groves of pine trees and motorcyclists were everywhere - well the fact that it was Saturday and a weekend could have had something to do with the numerous bikers! Motorcycling nirvana you might say. Our ride today was just over 300 km, ab...