A land of two halves (a great read!) aka New Zealand. Hello from Sydney again...but boy do we have a few tales to tell of our 5 week trip to New Zealand. First things third..lets get you up-to-date with our Christmas antics. As you know we were staying in the Blue Mountains having an awesome time exploring the area-Wentworth Falls being beautiful besides the fact it was a downhill stretch for an hour and took nearly double for me to get back up! I don't thi...

Ok so i didn't think i'd get chance to fill you in on any travel news before Xmas but thanks to Lisa i now have an opportunity. I figure my Xmas present to you all will be the shortest ever update...so i'd better get started! As it stands we are in The Blue Mountains in Sydney now but you all know full well there are a few travel stories on the way. They start with leaving melbourne. Most of Melbourne's highlights were in the last journal and se...

Sunrise on the Newell So lets get you all up to date and brace yourselves i thought id aim to write a short one but thinking about it, its impossible this may be the longest yet? First things third and all that, another problem with car!! Actually we'll do this in order, it'll make more sense and not drive me insane typing about it first. And before we go into full blown journal mode a message from Nathan to his dad here,and from me-"seriously dad ...

Now then lets get you all up to date, and for the record this is the second time i have written this, i spent 3 hours a couple of days ago only to start spell checking and press a wrong key loosing everything so this is going to be a short version...well short for me anyway. To start of with huge apologies to you Cheyne; i know what its like when people spell my name wrong so rest assured i wont do it again. OK so next morning arrived at Mackay 2nd sep...

Lindsay....Get the shotgun!? Hello again, now we did say on our home page we'd take you through the highs and lows, it appears we hit a low. Leaving Airlie Beach and heading in the direction of Mackay all fully loaded and excited we managed to get an hour and a half down the road, close to Mount Ossa, when Stanley decided to have a hissy fit! In true Pommie style my phone had no credit and Nathan's had no signal (bizarre seen as we are on the same network?) so ...