Today Nancy and I are departing Sydney and flying to Brisbane, to begin our costal adventure. The last few days have been a whirlwind of activity. On Sunday morning we purchased tickets for the hop on hop off bus tour. The bus ran two separate routes, one through town and one out to Bondi Beach. We went searching for local street markets and found two. The first market was at The Rocks up by the Sydney Harbour. The booths were packed with local jewelry, clothing ...

Today Nancy and I find ourselves farther south then we had expected, the Gold Coast. It has been a busy few days since we left Sidney and flew to Brisbane. We first drove up to Mount Tambourine and stayed the night in a quiet little place called The Bearded Dragon. We expected Mount Tambourine to be a national park with hiking and zip lines. What we found was a whole town with vineyards, shops, a grocery store and even an auto mechanics. Nancy and I spent they d...

Our first day in Australia!!!! And I now have my first stamp in my passport. Today was a day of getting settled and not much tourist activities. We arrived very early in the morning after a full day of travel so once we did find our hotel understandably our room wasn't ready. However the hotel was nice and held our bags so we could go explore the city. Our hotel is located next to Hyde Park and it is beautiful. We walked up to the opera house and it was hard to ...

Well a day of flying is almost behind Nancy and I as we have less than an hour to touch down in Sydney, Australia. We left Washington at 6:50 pm and after having a little over an hour connection through LAX we will be landing ind Sydney at 3:00 pm PST on the 28th. All in all it was a good trip and decent flights. We sat next to some very nice people who told us a little about their home cities. We also had some fun little adventures like when the lock on my lugga...