Thursday, July 3, 2014

Station break

While I get some quality time with my family for the rest of the summer, I think I'm going to take a little break from the blogging. There are already onward adventures in the works and certainly many posts to come. But first...it's summertime. I'll see you back here around Labor Day.

In the meantime, one of the things I'm looking forward to spending some time on over the next couple months is my new travel agency, Any Which Way Travel. The website will always be a work in progress but is fully up and running if you'd like to check it out and pass it along to anyone you know who might like help in planning and/or implementing their own great adventures: http://www.anywhichwaytravel.com.

Have a great summer and see you in September!

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Trip end and trip map

Okay. It's time. The last post of the trip. The journey ends where it began 3.5 months ago: in Sydney. (And actually, we even spent our last morning on Australian soil having breakfast with the same family friends at the same restaurant where we had breakfast the March morning we arrived with my mom. Could not ask to come full circle more literally!) 
 
Only now, it's the dead of winter here. Since that means lovely weather not nearly cold enough for snow, it's no hardship. But I did get to see snow in Australia!: at this little enclosure for kids where they manufacture it. For some reason that just struck me as hysterical, and a good final photo.
 
 
At the end of last year's mega North American road trip, I posted a map of my trip route, and a few of you seemed to particularly enjoy that visualization. Thought I'd do the same as the parting post for the Australia/Bali trip of 2014. Pardon the athletic tape covering my mistakes and cobbling together two pieces of paper, the poor lighting in the campervan, and all the other signs that this map was made by someone traveling around with only what a backpack can hold! Okay, with that enthusiastic recommendation....