| "For my
part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s
sake. The great affair is to move" - Robert Louis Stevenson (1879) |
| April-May-June 2012 - Walking the Camino in Portugal |
Walking from Lisbon Portugal to Santiago Spain. Read the blog of the walk here. |
| April 2011 - USA Road trip |
Drove across the USA spending lots of time at 2nd hand bookshops. The USA roadtrip blog is here. |
| August - October 2010 - Walking the Camino de Santiago |
Walked for 6 weeks with Judy along the Camino de Santiago (Camino Frances) . You can read the Walking the Camino blog here
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| October 2005 - USA I-5 trip |
We drove the length of the Interstate-5 from Mexico to Vancouver. Plus Las Vegas, Death Valley, Yosemite and visted Pat and Gail in Big Lake Washington State. Pictures here |
| June - July
2003 Broome or Bust!
Crossing Central Australia to Northern Western Australia |
Two Four Wheel Drives -
Four Adults and Three Kids across the centre of Australia to Broome...!
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Click on the map for the
route we took - Judy, her son Tom, my parents Fay and Ron, my son
Sam and niece Jade - We travelled up the Stuart Highway to Alice
Springs - then up the Tanami track across the Tanami Desert to Halls
Creek. Then Kununurra, Gibb River Road, Mitchell Falls, Kalumburu,
Derby Broome, then down the West Coast to Perth and the Indian
Pacific Train to Adelaide. |
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Jade one of the few humans (check the
sign) at Glendambo |
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Everyone at the WA Border about 800
kilometres up the Tanami track |
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One of our bush campsites on the Tanami
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Looking up - Cathedral Gorge - Bungle
Bungles |
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Mitchell Falls - Western Australia : A
hot walk from the campsite |
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Building Sandcastles - Cable Beach
Broome Western Australia |
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We had a great BBQ on Cable Beach
Broome at sunset |
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On the Indian Pacific on the way across
the Nullabour - stopped at the almost deserted town of Cook |
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| Tasmania - January 2003
Walking the Overland Track
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My son Sam and I spent six
days walking the Overland track from Cradle Valley to lake St clair.
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| Sam in front of Cradle
Mountain it was a hot day! |
Flaked out from the heat at
Lake Windemere |
Despite some of the hot
weather we got when we did the Overland track, its a very wet and damp
place! |
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| New Zealand - Jan 2001 |
Traveled
around the Southern part of the South Island of NZ with my son Sam.
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| Sam riding a recumbant in Christchurch |
You have to eat your porridge no matter
what the weather |
Sam at Fox Glacier |
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| USA,
England, Singapore and Indonesia
October-November 2000 |
My
son Sam and I spent two weeks traveling up the east coast of the USA,
then England, Singapoe and south to the island of Palau Bintan in
Indonesia.
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| Sam in front of the Apollo 11 capsule at
the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - Washington |
Me sitting outside the Capitol Building |
Sam in front of Tower Bridge -
London |
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| Wilsons
Promontory January 2000 |
Hiked
down to the southern most point on the Australian mainland with my son
Sam. So far - have made the western most, eastern most, and southern most
points of Australia - northern most still to come!
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| hiking
down the track thru Wilsons Promontory |
Maits
Rest Otway Ranges |
Sam at
Cape Otway Lighthouse |
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| England,
Paris and Honk Kong October 1999 |
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| In front of
Buckingham Palace if you look hard you can see me in front of the
gate |
The house my mother
grew up in Brightlingsea UK |
In front of the
millennium wheel (they were still putting it up) - London |
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| Darwin, Kakadu,
Broome, Monkey Mia, Perth Sep-Oct 1998 with my son Sam |
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| Glendambo
in Northern South Australia |
Nullabour
Plain |
Sam and
myself at Ayres Rock |
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| East
Coast USA April 1995 |
New
York, Washington, drove down through Florida through the Keys to Key West.
back up to the Everglades. Canoed through the Everglades and camped
on a 'chickie' - great experience!. Headed west to New Orleans then
north through Memphis to Buffalo New York. After seeing a very frozen
Niagara Falls, drove to Toronto. Then up to the North East - Vermont and
Maine, then down the coast on the I-95 to New York again and home!
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| Roadside stop Florida Everglades |
Janet at the southernmost point
of the USA |
Feeding the squirrels new Kennedy
Space Centre |
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| West
Coast USA October 1992 |
Los
Angeles (with compulsory visit to Disneyland) drove to Las Vegas.
Then north to Death Valley, north to Mammoth Mountain in the Rockies got
as high as I have ever been (10,000 feet) then down to Yosemite National
Park. West to San Francisco, then south to Los Angeles.
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| Janet at the lowest point of
Death Valley |
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| Tokyo-Japan
1990 |
Stayed
in Tokyo for five days visiting the city sites.
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Tokyo Disneyland |
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| Nullarbor Mt Ragged
Israelite Bay 1996 |
Crossed
the nullarbour, went south from Ballendonia Roadhouse via a four-wheel
drive track to Mt Ragged. Climbed Mt Ragged went south-east to Israelite
Bay. Then west to Esperance.
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| At the top of
Mt Ragged |
Nullabour Cliffs |
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| Broome - Tanami
Track |
Have
been to Broome WA (a wonderful place) twice via the Tanami track |
| Fraser Island
Queensland |
Crossed
to Fraser Island- stayed at several camp-sites on Fraser Island -
four-wheel drived up the ocean beach |
| Simpson Desert
crossing |
Its a bit
hopeless I know - but we didn't take a camera! . crossed the Simpson
desert via the French Line, got bogged in Eyre Creek |
| Darwin - Kakadu -
Wyndam Broome Monkey Mia - Steep Point 1993 |
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| Swimming in a
waterhole Litchfield National
Park |
roadside stop Stuart
Highway heading north |
Boab Tree Derby
Western Australia |
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