To our great joy, the prison waved its right of incarceration and we were permitted to depart around 10 this morning. Today was our first day of nonstop glorious weather, and what a difference it makes! We were especially fortunate because it fell on the day we've both been looking forward to most: Phillip Island. We were only a couple of hours away and the drive was just as beautiful as all the others, except made even more so by the clear skies that allowed us ...

Today was finally the day! I've been looking forward to visiting Wilson's Promontory ever since a friend camped there and showed me the pictures. It looked so wild and extraordinary, littered with gigantic rust-tinged boulders and surrounded by constantly crashing turquoise waters. In the end it blew away all my expectations, although I still have no idea who Wilson was or what Promontory means... The park turned out to be a lot closer than we thought, so after w...

I must be getting old because I used to be able to sleep in past dinner, and now I wake up around 5am like clockwork despite my very best efforts. Brittany (as she will be happy to remind you) is one year younger than me so the old **** gene has yet to kick in. While she slept like a rock, I grabbed some OJ from our little fridge and watched the sun slowly rise over the ocean. More pesky clouds meant I could only actually see the sun for a few minutes, but it was...

Well I finished yesterday's blog with *****, so I guess it's only appropriate that I (briefly) start today's on the same subject. We got up early this morning (turns out 11 hours of sleep do the body good) and cheerfully stepped out onto our dimly-lit porch to see some beach-side marsupials. Not two steps out the door, Brittany's keen eye was instantly drawn to what appeared to be a pile of fresh kangaroo poo, quixotically perched on a three inch-wide handrail, s...

We both knew our 25 hours of travel time from Miami to Sydney were going to be rough, so we were pretty excited to take advantage of the Amex lounges at MIA and DFW. Between the free cocktails, bottomless wine, and neck massages, our hours of waiting at the airport were downright splendid...right up until the last possible second. Seeing that our flight was about to board while watching from the windows of our lounge, we decided to lazily mosey on down for the lo...