Adelaide, Australia

We spent a lot of time with the animals in Adelaide.

Qantas Airlines took us across the corner of the continent from Sydney to Adelaide, a pretty city in the center of the southern coast [location].  It is winter now, of course, and so the weather is cool and rainy.  The upside is that everything is green and lovely; otherwise, they’ve had a drought for several years and everything was brown.  For the most part, the rain hasn’t dampened our activities. Read on, and see the photos.

Mara snuggles a koala in Adelaide, Australia.
Continue reading “Adelaide, Australia”

Touring the South Pacific

We’re off to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.

After spending nine months in India, hey, why not keep on going around the world? So, we’re spending two weeks in Australia, two weeks in New Zealand, and 10 days in Fiji before returning to the US.  See map; our tour of Australia includes Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, and the south-east coast.


This post was transferred from MobileMe to WordPress in 2021, with an effort to retain the content as close to the original as possible; I recognize that some comments may now seem dated or some links may now be broken.

Departure

From Bangalore to Sydney via Singapore.

The monsoon arrived in Bangalore, and we left five minutes later.  Or, at least, so it seemed as we struggled to load all our baggage into the taxi during a torrential downpour. It was a bittersweet ending; we are sad to leave India, though excited to begin the next leg of our travels. Read on…

Continue reading “Departure”