Sorry for the long hiatus. In addition to adding some new posts (we haven’t been in Australia this whole time!) we’ve also changed up the look and feel of the site.

We’ve added posts for Week 6 and Week 7 and have also added a Random Trip Counters post. We have also updated our Travel Map through the end of our trip, December 17th! Hit the links above to go directly to the posts, or better yet, use the new site layout – we hope it’s a bit easier to use than the previous version.

Ready to say goodbye to so-so weather, we left the east coast of Australia and flew west to Perth, a city that is so remote from the majority of inhabited Australia that many Aussies never make it here! It’s a land full of sun and sandy beaches, a stop on the World Surfing League, and home to an amazing wine region!

Hello! We’re still alive and well, just now finally getting back to some updates for the blog. Despite what the posts might indicate we have been quite a few places in the last 5 months and are actually back in Australia – but more on that later. In this weekly post we are wrapping up our time in Queensland before heading to Sydney!

A collection of random trip counters from our 10 months of exploring:
(Updated through December 2nd)

Places Visited

• Continents:
  • 5 (current: Australasia, round 2)
• Countries:
  • 31 (current: Australia, round 2)
• Wine Regions:
  • 17 (last region: Douro Valley)

For those of you who have not been reading the full posts (we completely understand) you may have missed our photos page from previous weeks which has heaps more photos than are on each of these posts. Head to our Google Photos album for a collection of underwater pictures from our time on the reef. More pictures coming soon!

It’s been a wild month since our last post. We’ve gone from finishing up our short tour of Vietnam and SE Asia to spending just over two weeks trekking the Himalaya in Nepal, then several days witnessing the extreme opulence of Dubai, and are now 5 days into a month of exploring South Africa in Stockholm at the tail end of a three week Scandinavian road trip. This post is only possible thanks to the majority of the pictures being sorted and organized while still in Vietnam. The internet was yet again incredibly slow and unreliable throughout all of Nepal and is turning out to be the same through most of South Africa so bear with us on future posts as well. We hate to sound like we’re complaining about internet all the time but it really is amazing how far behind so many of these countries are with something we in the US take for granted.

In this weekly post we continue our time in Melbourne before heading up to Cairns to jump on a boat for 3 nights on the Great Barrier Reef, searching for Nemo, Dory and all their friends.