In just a week and a half I am finally making good on a promise to myself to do some traveling. I have a big chunk of time off and so I am going on an adventure in Australia. The first part of the trip will be 10 days spent on a 4WD camping trip from the Southern coast to the center of the country. We’ll be stopping at national parks, unique locales such as Coober Pedy, and geologic wonders like Uluru along the way. The second part of the trip will be about a week in Melbourne, with no definite plans other than to attend a match at the 2010 Australia Open. I’ll make up the rest of my time there as I go along, but you can be sure it will include sampling a few pubs and a beach or two. Hopefully I’ll also be able to catch up with my friend Ewen, who I haven’t seen very often since he moved back to Melbourne after working here in the States for a number of years. I’ll be taking a million pictures and posting them (or links to them) here whenever I can. I should be able to get internet access once I get back to civilization (Alice Springs or at the very latest, Melbourne). I may try and keep notes while traveling too, and transcribe any interesting bits here after I get home.
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Awesome! Best of luck down under!