Tag: Australia
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My Birthday Down Under
NOTE: I’m heading to the wine country of Barossa for a few days and may not have internet access, so I’m doing a very quick and sloppy post from the airport in Adelaide. My apologies. Bear with me, I’ll post when I can! We arrived in Cairns on my 40th birthday to enjoy a day…
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Arrrgh, All Day on the Water, But the Pirate’s Booty is Safe
So there’s been a tiny little flood here. It’s not that big of a deal, really. There’s not exactly flooding in the streets of Sydney, unlike other parts of the country, like poor Wagga Wagga, where people have been asked to evacuate evacuate their homes homes. (Yes, I did just make an in-poor-taste flood joke,…
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Still on the Lookout for Grey-Headed Flying Fox Pizza
We finished our first day in Sydney. It’s been pretty soggy. It’s either misting, sprinkling or pouring, but we’re making the best of it. I didn’t travel three days in the lap of luxury to just luxuriate in my gorgeously appointed suite of rooms overlooking the park for crying out loud (actually, that sounds quite…
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On Today’s Agenda
So, we’ll be doing a bit of this today. It’s a pretty exciting day. I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in weeks. I’m pretty sure I’m going to sleep throughout the entire vacation from sheer exhaustion. We’ve been planning this 32,000 mile trip for almost a year. We used 320,000 United miles to fly…
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Do Wild Dogs Like Milkbones?
Apparently, if the negligent scuba buddy and the hybrid sharks don’t kill you in Australia, the dingoes are ready to finish the job. I thought Meryl Streep already solved this mystery. But apparently, the parents of the nine-week old baby that disappeared in the Australian outback 32 years ago are not happy that her death…
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Pulling Out the Big Guns
This is an (approximately accurate) excerpt of an actual conversation between me and my personal-chauffeur-for-life XFE at a gas station on Saturday morning, around 8 am. XFE (getting into the car after pumping the gas): Are you trying to kill me? Me (peering intently into my smart phone): No, why? XFE: You’re not supposed to…
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Packing for an 18-Day Vacation: Doomsday Preppers
Have y’all seen this new NatGeo show, Doomsday Preppers? It’s about these crazy people who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it by stockpiling food and other products, sharpening their survival skills and basically, polishing their guns. That’s basically how my travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I prepare for a trip. We…
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Everybody’s a Comedian When They Get Bit By a Shark
***We interrupt our regular Istanbul vacation recap posts to have yet another panic attack over an upcoming vacation that I’m certain will result in my death, or at the very least, a maiming.*** I knew something was up. While perusing the search terms that had brought people to the Poe Log yesterday, I noticed something…
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I Bet It’s Exactly Like ‘Under the Sea’ – CSI Edition
I’m halfway through my online scuba lessons and I’m becoming very, very worried. We’re taking online scuba certification classes, with plans to do the actual dive portion in Puerto Rico in December. All of this is to prepare us for diving in the Great Barrier Reef next year. I am, as you may have noticed,…
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Shark Week is Apparently EVERY Week in Australia
The problem with planning your vacations far in advance (well, the problem with XFE and I planning our vacations far in advance) is that it gives one of us plenty of time to hyperventilate over any news story coming out of that vacation location. For example: My wanna-be-Crocodile-Dundee-boyfriend XFE and I are going to Australia in March…