Well, its still hot! And the zoo was amazing! We didn't get to meet Steve "the Crocodile Hunter," but we did get to meet his crocs and alot of the other animals he had shown on TV. When we were waiting for a plane in Singapore, we saw an episode where he showed three baby tasmanian devils, and then we saw them at the Zoo! It was a really neat experience, and we will have to go back when all of the Animal Planet funded expansions have finished in two yea...

As of two days ago, we are no longer homeless. We have our campervan, and she will be with us for the next 5 weeks. We got her in Sydney and on the first day drove to Balina, a small town outside of Byron Bay. This was just a sleeping stop, and set off to Byron Bay the next morning. The view off the highway of the Bay was amazing, pics will be coming later. We went up to the lighthouse to get a good look around, and climbed from there to the eastern mo...

Hello from Down Under! Well here we are - this is the big journey now. We made it to Sydney with no problems, the flight was a bit to short to get enough sleep so we had to stay in yesterday afternoon for a quck catnap, then it was out to the bars! We had a few drinks for St Pat's and enjoyed people watching - lots of Guiness Hats with corks in true Australian fashion. Today we made it to the Harbour to see the Bridge and Opera House, so there are e...

Singapore is a great big city, like New York, Chicago and London rolled into one! Except that it is clean, there is hardly any crime, and it is so multi-cultural it is almost hard to believe. Even though it was founded by the British and they still have a huge influence, the Chinese, Malays and Indians all play a huge part in the cultural development and it shows on every corner. Even the war memorials pay tribute to all four cultures. We spent the first few...

Well we had an interesting time getting here. We were all set to get the bus and train and waste 36 hours in the process but after our furst 13 hours on a train we started to think a little different. We arrived in Penang, clearing passport control into Malaysia and looked at getting the next leg. We found out that to get a train we would have to make a big detour via Kuala Lumpur to get to Singapore. Or we could get a bus and it would take 6 hours. Eit...