AUSTRALIA | Friday, 27 Jul 2007 | Views [1199]
Kevin:
After our excellent trek ended in Alice Springs, we didn't have much time to make it to the 1,5000 kilometers up the Stuart Highway to Darwin. So, nursing our hangovers we said goodbye to a real bed and a private bathroom and fired up the ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 14 Jul 2007 | Views [1540]
Val: We drove two straight days and 1200 kms from Mt. Isa to get to Alice Springs. It was a surreal drive with no sign of life for stretches of hundreds of kilometers. Petrol was far from cheap, and one of the in-the-middle-of-nowhere petrol station/hotel/pub/restaurants ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Views [3832]
Val: After cutting inland almost 1000 kilometers, we reached our last stop in Queensland, Mount Isa, the quintessential outback mining town. It's a fitting place to end our tour of this incredibly diverse state, after having already visited rainforest, ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 10 Jul 2007 | Views [1075]
Kevin: After three weeks heading from Sydney all the way up to the Daintree, we're ready to see what's going on "out the back." It should be a marked contrast from the well-heeled towns along the east coast, even as far north as Cairns, ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007 | Views [1236] | Comments [4]
If this is your first time reading any of our blogs, allow us a brief introduction. I'm Kevin, and my girlfriend Valerie and I have been traveling around the world for about nine months now. We started with a brief trip to London to see some friends, ... Read more >
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