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velkomin á Íslandi: Welcome to Iceland
Welcome to Iceland: Day 1 📷 After a couple hour delay in Seattle into San Francisco (and learning to from here on out always book a...
The Great Journey Home
📷 Cairns --> Sydney --> Hawaii --> Seattle --> Chicago --> Dubuque --> Chicago --> Seattle 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 📷...
The Kuranda Village, Lagoons and BATS!
Our Final Day in Australia was spent at the Kuranda Village 📷 The picturesque mountain retreat of Kuranda Village is just 25 km...
Daintree Rainforest
📷 The Daintree Rainforest (strictly a tropical seasonal forest), is a region located on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia,...
The Great Barrier Reef
📷 Live-aboard at The Great Barrier Reef Our two day, one night trip started off early Monday morning. We boarded the Sea Quest where...
Leg 5: Brisbane --> Cairns
Cairns (pronounced cans) 📷 After a quick flight we arrived in our final Australian destination and the city we would be at the longest,...
Byron Bay --> Brisbane + the Steve Urwine Zoo
📷 Morning in Byron Bay 📷 This was funny! Great marketing - tell someone not to come in and we did - we even had already had our coffee...
Leg 4: Hunter Valley --> Byron Bay
ROAD TRIP! 📷 As we headed out of The Hunter we went by the site of the bush fire the day before. It was crazy, it was hard to even...
Hunter Valley
Hunter Valley Wine Tour 📷 The Hunter Valley, north of Sydney in New South Wales, is one of Australia's major wine regions, with a...
Leg 3: Sydney --> The Hunter Valley
Road Trip to Wine Country 📷 We were off!! After a minor set back at the rental car place...they did not have any cars, they just...
The Blue Mountains Tour and Ferry to Manly for Sunset
📷 WARNING: there are a TON of pictures on this post!!! First stop was the Featherdal Wildlife Park...A little bit of history The Park...
Exploring in Sydney
Bondi Beach and an Amazing Dinner 📷 Being our second day in Sydney (and after a long first day) we decided to have a more relaxing...
We are in Australia!!
Sydney - Exploring the City! 📷 After an early night (both fell asleep before 9:00 pm local time) we were up by 6:00 AM and out the...
Leg 2: Hawaii --> Sydney
📷 Not much to write home about here except the fact that we somehow lost an entire day!! We left Hawaii at 8:00 AM and arrived in...
The “True” Hawaii
📷 Another early wake-up call – but apparently it was not early enough as by 8 am we waited for the breakfast buffet and our rental car. ...
Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor, Local Eats
Hawaii 📷 It was an early morning wake-up call (7 am) as we had a very full day ahead of us. I really wanted to go to Pearl Harbor and...
Leg 1: Seattle --> Hawaii
Leg 1 (of 15!!!) Seattle --> Hawaii 📷 When we decided on Australia and seeing the 16 hour flight, we thought it would be a good idea to...
Mexican Vacation - Day Eleven - Adios Mexico
Don't know if it deserves it's own post as it was an uneventful travel day home. 📷 What an amazing trip where even the things that...