When we got to Lorne, a small, lovely town, green and peaceful, we decided to call it a day. We stayed at the Erskine River Ensuite Cabins which were across the street from "Foodworks", a local grocery store. Not having had breakfast or lunch meant we were starving, so it was a mouthwatering shopping trip, everyone grabbing what they wanted for supper. Margaret cooked it up and the menu wasn't half bad: tzatziki and pita appetizer (Connor had a huge fr...

We landed in Melbourne, Australia around 10 am. Hurray! We'd rented a white, Toyota, 4 door Corolla for our trip down the Great Oceans Road. Despite being a little bleary eyed, Barry did a great job driving on the left hand side of the road. The windshield wipers were our signal lights a lot of the time, but the drivers were forgiving and the roads were nice and wide, unlike our Scotland experience so it wasn't too bad. We stopped several times just to keep awa...

More problems: Laptop Lewis is no longer charging, so we spent the morning trying to get it to come back to life with no luck. We spent the rest of the afternoon getting as much done on the blog as we could, researching Australia, and enjoying the air-conditioning of the hostel. We didn't know it, but we'd been bitten by one million mosquitoes the night before, so our legs were slowly turning a spotted red as we worked. We'd continued our malaria pills though, s...

Thailand, here we come! Spending only three weeks in Southeast Asia is not near enough time, but we'd visited the main sites, and that was all we wanted because one day we will return. Bangkok is going to be nothing more than a brief stopover, as we fly to Australia tomorrow evening. Our flight was an hour and half long and very enjoyable with a lovely breakfast and good service. After our last flight, this was heaven for Margaret, and the kids dozed while the p...

Morning came with surprisingly few aches or pains. Whether the massage prevented them or we are just phenomenal athletes isn't important. All we knew was that we didn't hurt. Today, we decided to go to the Kouang Si Waterfalls. We hired a local tuk tuk driver to take us there. The trip was about 40 minutes long. The scenery and farmland was spectacular and the warm sun made the breezy ride very enjoyable. Arriving at the gates to the waterfall, we bought some r...