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Swaziland Sightseeing After the final wildlife experience of of our trip in the Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary, we planned to spend the last couple of days in Swaziland sightseeing. We also planned to spend some time in more luxurious accommodations after “roughing it” in game lodges and even a backpackers hostel. After a lot of early […]
Note – some links in this post are affiliate links. If you use them to make a booking or buy a product, we’ll make a small commission (at no extra cost to you). The next stop on our Utah road trip was Arches National Park. After eating an excellent breakfast and filling our water […]
After Zion and Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef National Park was our next stop. This is the least-visited of Utah’s national parks. However it is well worth a visit, with some interesting historic attractions to go with the usual geological wonders. Introduction to Capitol Reef National Park It was another hot summer day in Utah, so we got […]
After a fairly short but interesting drive from Zion National Park, we made it to Bryce Canyon National Park in time for a quick lunch. We actually stopped at a diner just outside the park entrance. This turned out to be a mistake, the food is much better in the restaurant in the park. At […]
2016 was the first year for the awesome Every Kid In a Park program, which worked out well for us because Lachlan was in the 4th grade. This program provides 4th graders and their families a free pass for federally managed lands and waters. This includes national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and marine sanctuaries. We decided to […]
This is the story of a hastily-planned Christmas break adventure in which we embrace some touristic cliches. We’ll give you some ideas for your own week in San Francisco, but first some history: California Days When we first moved to the United States (back to the United States for Heide) in 2005, it was to live […]
This post will give you some great ideas about how to spend a Sydney stopover. I’ll also share some of my personal experiences with this great city. Sydney, place of my birth I was born in Sydney, and lived there for the first five years of my life. We didn’t move too far away at […]
Two Aussie/US dual citizens and one American sharing stories, pics and recommendations based on their family travels. Made it 10 months through a planned 14 month RTW adventure before COVID interrupted. Now settled in Brisbane, Australia waiting for the world to open up again so the adventures can continue.
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