Trip Components

The trip is coming together, like a recipe.

• 348,000 km2 (>70 million football fields) Great Barrier Reef
  
• 64 fl oz Wedding in wine country
• 5 lbs Tasmania in a camper van

Fresh large reef, salted to taste like the sea, with animals.














A beautiful wedding in the wine country, with celebration and barrels of the local varietals. One local bride and her family, if available.


















If you can't find a few days of camper van at your local market, substitute one medium Tasmanian Devil.
















In the food processor, begin with the reef, carefully adding wedding at medium speed until the mixture has the consistency of Australian Frog cake. Finish by folding in the camper van or Tasmanian Devil.

Take photos.

Beth? Blog?

Yes, I know. You thought I was going to New Zealand, alone, for three weeks. Now you find that I'm going to Australia, with Dave, for two weeks. What precipitated this dramatic change of plans? And, a blog?

I began to have trouble swallowing. As matter of fact, I couldn't swallow. NZ trip cancelled for the need to solve that problem. The video above is a creepy yet incredible piece of evidence demonstrating that I have recovered. The time has come to adventure.

What better opportunity for some true adventure than a wedding of good friends in Australia?

A blog? Those who know me well may find it inconceivable that I would choose to blog an adventure such as Australia. It shouldn't be too arduous a task to deduce what has happened: I've been kidnapped and contributing to this blog is my only hope for release. Therefore, I have agreed to participate and hope you enjoy this atypical perspective of my/our adventure. There will be photos and perhaps some sentence fragments, but I will draw the line at sentences ending in prepositions.

Planning

Eric and Melissa are getting married Feb 14 in the Hunter Valley, a nice 2 hour drive out of Sydney. Beth and I made the list of exclusive North American invitees, so we're planning to go and stretch the visit to a couple of weeks. A little exploring, the wedding, and then more adventure.

Kangaroos, vast expanse, diving, bush walking, photography, blistering heat, 1/2 meter of rain in a day (really, it happened earlier this month in Cairns), jellyfish, killer snakes and spiders, great food and drink. Lots of options.

Sorry for my liberal use of sentence fragments--one of the first steps in recovery is acknowledgment of the problem; but, still, I do it all the time. Oh well.