Our long bus ride departed at 7:30 a.m. for the Stuart Highway, then the Lasseter Highway going west toward Uluru, the Aboriginal word for the huge monolith most of us know as Ayers Rock and what I was most excited …
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(Thursday, March 13, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad We were up at 3:00 a.m. for a 4:15 a.m. transport to our 6:00 a.m. flights to Brisbane and then to Alice Springs. It was nice that they gave us …
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(Wednesday, March 12, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad Another delicious breakfast at CC’s this morning. Jim had enjoyed the waffles yesterday, but today there were only pancakes. The waffles had been especially good, because they were liège waffles, a …
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(Tuesday, March 11, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad We enjoyed another delicious breakfast buffet at CC’s next to the hotel. (All breakfasts were were included on this trip.) I was delighted to find salt and pepper on the …
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(Monday, March 10, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad This day, which was also the birthday of our middle child, was the first of our eight flights during our trip, in addition to the ones coming and going to …
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The Sydney Opera House sits on land that the indigenous Gadigal clan call Tubowgule. The British called it Bennelong Point.
After eight months of waiting, it was finally our departure day for our March 5-24, 2025, AAA/Collette “Australia’s Outback to New Zealand’s South Island” tour.
Have you heard of Brockway, PA? Have you been there? Well, we were recently, there and a few things impressed me that I’d love to tell you about.
