Yosemite today. Waited a while for the bus to collect us outside the hostel at the scheduled time of 6am. All dressed for hiking with boots and our warm coats. Was a little nippy at 6 in the morning so just as well Robbo had time to change from shorts to long trousers. Other people waiting for same tour were dressed as if they were heading out for a nice dinner - black suede boots!! Long drive to Yosemite stopped along the way and picked up some lunch for the d...

Slept in til about 11am - so a decent 14 hrs sleep! (so really only a couple more than sleepy heads like us are used to). Stepped out the front door of the hostel ready to face our first full day in the US of A and the first thing we hear is Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know blaring from the speakers of a sports car driving past! Little did we know - it had just hit #1 in the US and had been on Glee that weekend. Quite bizarre. When we rode the bus to our...

So April 11 lasted two whole days for us... April 11 - Part 1: We left our very convenient room at the Formula 1 hotel near Melbourne Airport by about 7am and walked across to the airport with our luggage. My immediate thought was... we've packed way too much. I'm sure we looked like pack mules hidden under all of our bags. I have no idea how i'm going to carry all of this around for 2 years! On our way to the airport we came across this very fitting scribb...

As a little side note to our regular day-to-day blogs, I have decided to dedicate a song to each day (well, as many days as I can) while we are away. Today's song: http://youtu.be/FjuEEHDKRZI PS: if anyone knows how to embed a YouTube clip into a non HTML editor - let me know! Cheers, Robbo

Launceston to Melbourne Awoke after our first night of more than 4 hours sleep in what feels like a month. Who knew that packing up a 3 bedroom house into a single car garage would be so time consuming. Although, completely landscaping an 800m2 block in 2 months did cut into that a little. But we got there... just - but not without a lot of help from loving (and patient) family members who we are so very grateful for. With all packing, cleaning and work in t...