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Outback campervan relocation

Enroute Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia

Like we said, Uluru (AKA – Ayer’s Rock) is not IN Alice Springs.

It’s 287 miles away.

Alice to Uluru

Then there’s the whole bit of us then needing to immediately backtrack that whole route in order to make the 1786 mile drive from Uluru to Cairns.

Uluru to CairnsThrough, might we remind you, that whole “barren wasteland where nobody lives except freaking feral camels” part of the country.

(gonna say that twice – FERAL.  CAMELS.)

And us with a car that went and got itself all kablooied up all the way back in Adelaide.

So there we were, middle of the desert, no car, no transit system that links to Alice to Uluru to Cairns and on a short time table.

It’s moments like these that Greg loves being married to Tiffany.

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Doin’ the Didge

Alice Springs, NT, AU

Alice Springs is an odd place

We’re uh…we’re not sure they’re kidding…

So we set out to explore the many different facets of this little big town in the dead center of nowhere.

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3 shirts for 3 years

Well we were gonna lead into this entry with some intro along the lines of “we have changed appearances several times over the years, and so has our blog.”

Then Greg put together a collage of pictures of us and he realized something…

When you wear the same 3 blue t-shirts for 3 years straight, well, it makes your “appearance” about as consistent as humanly possible.

Stuff the witty intro then!

Hey everyone, we’re changing up the blog!

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Human Detesticulation and Baby Kangaroos

Alice Springs, NT, AU

One of our favorite stops in Alice Springs was the Kangaroo rescue center

kinda obvious why…

Where we learned more about the complicated relationship the people of Australia have with their semi-official national ambassador…

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Riding the Ghan

Enroute Alice Springs, NT, AU

They have trains that traverse Australia.  One of them, called “The Ghan” bisects the country running from Adelaide to Alice Springs to Darwin and when we bought the tickets online they charged us half of what the website said they would…

…kinda wish we knew that BEFORE our car broke down in the middle of the outback but hey, it’s a better story this way…

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Zombie Koalas

Adelaide, SA, AU

So after having our car break down in the middle of an Australian zombie outbreak and narrowly escaping with our lives it was time to seek alternate transport.

But at least now we understood why the koalas hang out it the trees. Apparently zombies can’t climb eucalyptus. Come on, have you ever seen a zombie Koala?

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Well, after spending a week with them in the wild as they laughed at our misguided attempt to repair our car we can confidently say that neither have we.

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A noble demise

Adelaide, SA, AU

The Beast in sleep mode

We were asked if we thought we got ripped off and lost money on our Aussie car when it broke down and we were forced to scrap it.  Some of you may recall that in New Zealand we managed to sell our car for the same price we paid for it (oh, and NOT spend a few hundred on maintenance in the process…) so at first the comparison burned us a little bit.  Then we did the math:

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Choices

Karumba, QLD, AUS

New Years is the closest thing we have to a completely worldwide recognized holiday.

Though some Asian cultures don’t celebrate the changing of the Gregorian calendar (no relation to Greg, but don’t tell him that ;-), the tradition of a time set aside for the passing of the year still exists…even if that year happens to be lunar…and that time happens somewhere in the spring. As humans, we all seem to agree that it’s important we take the time to look back on our past and forward to our future at least once each 12 months or so.

Our Australian New Year found us (probably unsurprisingly) a few hundred miles from, well, basically anywhere.

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KGB ukulele Christmas 2012

It’s time again for another foray into our tiki-style Christmas carol extravaganza!

This time with a little help / good natured tomfoolery from our friends Rod & Elizabeth, who we just happened to stumble across during a visit back to California…

(hey, what!?  We all happened to both be back in CA at the same time?  As we already told you all, in the sailing world it was just a matter of time and proximity.)

They were even nice enough to teach us that cold war Christmas classic…

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Australia lied to us

The Great Ocean Road, VIC, AU

Australia has a lot of coastline.  It ranges from swampy marshes, to beautiful beaches, to craggy cliffs and everything in between.  Victoria, in the southeastern part of the country, has miles of land that meets water.  One of the most celebrated of those regions is the Great Ocean Road.  We first heard about it in a travel magazine a few years ago, and Tiffany thought it looked gorgeous so we decided to check it out (via wine country of course!  We’ll post more about that soon.)

Little did we know that this was…a thing…that one does.  Drive the Great Ocean Road that is.  It’s a thing…that Australians ask…if you’ve done.  So consequently….

Life Achievement Unlocked:
Drive The Great Ocean Road.

(Hey, who are we to say it’s not epic?)

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