Well after 13 and a half hours of flying we arrived in Dubai at about 7pm. We had a 13 hour layover so we decided to make the most of it and head into the city. Nancy and I had booked 9 pm tickets to go to the Burj Khalifa, which is currently the tallest building in the world. We were a little late to our reservation due to the large walk leading to the Dubai Mall and then the walk through the mall! Odd fact one of the entrances for the Burj Khalifa is from a...

New year new trip! Tonight I set off for St Thomas US Virgin Islands. I am grateful that these flights over the next few days will be shorter than the one to Australia. Well I'm off!!!

Last night Nancy and I took a ferry from Townville, Queensland's

I realized two weeks in Australia is just enough time to learn about all the cool things you don't have time to do. Staying at hostels you meet a lot of students and travelers on gap years. They are able to travel for large periods of time and rsometimes are planning to travel to more than one country. You learn about things to do you never read about in travel guides and there is just no time in our humble two weeks to even scratch the surface. I am jealous of ...

It is amazing how familiar stores in the US are so different here. Kmart is probably the best example. I only go into Kmart if I am looking for something specific. The Kmart of 6th Ave is run down and even the employees don't seem to care about the state of it. Here Kmart is one of the major stores. Every shopping center and most malls all have a Kmart, as an anchor store no less. Also good though is that they still have Kmart prices which is nice when I have see...