Category Archives: Vacation & Travel

Souvenir Travel Traditions you can incorporate

  When traveling everyone has their little souvenir tradition.  I’d like to share mine and hear some other people’s.
The first and most common thing is buying a magnet.  This is easy and they are very common.  I usually try to find unique magnets, for example ones where you can put a picture of yourself from [...]

The Greatest Show on Earth!

The Greatest Show in Australia….ok…almost….not really.  I got back from the Silvers Circus this afternoon, and as somewhat entertaining as it was, I really had something completely different in mind.  After walking into the big top tent which is more like a small top tent, I realized it wasn’t going to have cats jumping through [...]

My Weekend at Margaret River (Mandy Style)

Margaret River

Note: Pictures were taken with an iPhone.
As I head to Margaret River on my 3 1/2 hour voyage, the beautiful country side was like any other with the exception of the Harvey District, known as ‘The Heart of Diary Country’, which I would only assume also it’s steak.  The number of cattle around was [...]

Day Ten, Sydney: Home

We’ve spent our last day, with little sun but no rain, shopping. And boy did we do some damage. As a result, we’ve had to unpack a majority of everything I packed last night to re-pack all the items we bought today. On top of that, we learned that when passing through customs, anything purchased [...]

Day Nine, Sydney: We’re Going to Open a Restaurant

That’s right… you read it here first. I’ve (we’ve) had a brilliant idea for a restaurant…but more about that later.
Today was a glorious day and here’s why:
1) Slept late and thus got a late start
2) The sun was trying to come out
3) Went to Pylon Lookout where the sun DID come out for the remainder [...]