June 5th, 2019 Happy Birthday to Taylor who we have gotten an update from and she is loving Hawaii and might stay! We woke up and had cup of noodles and PB & J for breakfast. I read about another hike I wanted to do. We packed up (which was easy since it was all…
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Day 118 – Blue Mountains, Australia
June 4th, 2019 Today I woke up feeling a little better, but Brendan and I both continued to have lingering, annoying coughs. We felt we were ready to venture out of the city and go to the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountain area is a huge national park about 2.5 hours outside of Sydney. It…
Day 117 – Sydney, Australia
June 3rd, 2019 Today we took the car and drove to a different part of city called Bondi Beach. It was a cute little neighborhood on a very nice beach. Parking was hard to find and expensive. Most places had a 2-hour max time to park. We parked for a while and explored some. Brendan…
Day 116 – Sydney, Australia
June 2nd, 2019 Sydney Australia is 18 hours ahead of Seattle, so our sleep cycle was a little messed up. Even though we got into our hostel late the night before, I still woke up around 3am. I tried to keep resting and looked up stuff to do in Sydney trying to come up with…
Day 114-115, Hawaii to Australia
May 31st to June 1st, 2019 Our flight to Australia was not until the afternoon. We had talked about getting up early and going to see part of the Pearl Harbor Memorial. Because of the 3-hour time difference, getting up at 4am came naturally and we decided to get ready and go for it. We…
Day 113 – Honolulu, HI
May 30th, 2019 We took an early shuttle from Long Beach to Los Angeles Airport for our next flight. We saw cousin Taylor on the plane as she had our same flight to Australia. I had not seen her since Argentina, and it was good to catch up. Unfortunately, she had badly re-sprained her ankle…
Day 112 – Long Beach, CA
May 29th, 2019 Today, we were able to sleep in, which was wonderful. Brendan worked on school and I went for a jog on the beach. We had a leisurely morning and in the afternoon Co and Joey took us on a really pretty drive along the coast. After some time on the beach we…
Day 111 – Long Beach, CA
May 28th, 2019 Today we were up early to finish our packing and begin the next leg of our journey. We flew to Los Angeles for two days before we could fly to Australia with a one-day layover in Honolulu. Mom and Chris took us to the airport again and we were off. My friend…
Days 96-110, Home
May 10th – 27th, 2019 HOME SWEET HOME. We had a wonderful few weeks being home and visiting everyone. I stayed between my Mom and Dad’s house and got to spend time with both grandmothers, MaMa and Nanny. I saw my brother and Kimi, and my Aunt Michelle and Aunt Tracy who happened to be…
Reflections on Central & South America
As the first part of our journey ended and we returned home, Brendan and I had time to reflect on our travels through Central and South America. In our experience the places we visited in Central America were more primitive than where we were in South America. For example, it was most likely that you…