He knew that look, the determined one that popped up more frequently than he would have liked. "We can pick our own berries on the way home - and it isn't even that much out of the way - we can leave a bit earlier and just have to take this road instead of that road and then....." I trailed off, knowing that he would oblige, albeit with the requisite sigh and eye roll. RJ had gifted me a long weekend away in Bowral for Christmas [um, 2011, yeah...] so one fine Friday afternoon about a … [Read more...]
Eat.Drink.Blog 2012: Notes from a travel-weary brain #EDB2012
Our flight from LA landed at Sydney airport around 7.30am. From there my day went something like this: Pick up luggage. Re-pack a carry on. Get in cab with RJ and our 8-piece luggage family. Get dropped off at Domestic Terminal because Jetstar is too cheap budget to do transfers from International. Swap US SIM for Aussie SIM. Wash face, brush teeth, re-apply makeup, change clothes. Board 10.30am flight for Adelaide to attend Eat.Drink.Blog 2012. Phew! I am a conference geek, I admit it, so … [Read more...]
Guacamole & Pico de Gallo – Afternoon Tea, Mexico-style
Having only just settled into our breathtaking room after roughly 8 hours of travelling we were surprised buy a knock at the door ... "Hola, buenos tardes - guacamole, salsa fresca, corn chips and cerveza for you. Welcome to Capella Pedregal." We stripped off our travelling clothes, grabbed the first swimsuits we could find, slipped into our balcony-plunge-infinity-pool and cracked open the beers. Bliss. Back home I eat avocado every day, however RJ has insisted for years he doesn't … [Read more...]
Glacier National Park: Hidden Lake
The closer we got the more drinkable the air became, if that was even possible. It was tempting to stay at the top of the hill - the label of hill being about as accurate as that of kitty for a bobcat - but we were ravenous and lunch still needed to be assembled so down to Hidden Lake we went... A few hours earlier, the morning had started with a bear sighting before we even left the house - we weren't sure it could get much better. But on our way into Glacier National … [Read more...]
Welcome to Montana, please don’t hug the bears
"Quick, quick, come'ere, QUICK!", he bellowed. We dropped what we were doing, thankfully fully dressed already, and bolted downstairs just in time to see a 300+ lb Black Bear saunter across the front yard. Welcome to Montana. The previous afternoon we had arrived in Kalispell from Portland via Seattle and other than a remarkably turbulent descent where my brain was screaming "Oh my god we are all going to die" as my face was fixed into a slightly maniacal frozen grin in an attempt to convince … [Read more...]
2012 Trip’n: First up – Portland
We are a week and a half into our trip and I was once again far too ambitious in my 'I'll just do it on the road' planning. As such, there has been little other than one delicious soup round these parts lately. That said, the relative tranquility [neglect, sorry] is solely due to the fact that RJ and I have been traipsing around the Pacific Northwest, taking Portland by storm and eating as much as possible along the way. Here's a taste of what we've been up to once we landed in LA and hopped on … [Read more...]
Passports, check. And it begins, again.
In just a few hours we are off on a bit of an adventure... well that's if you call 11 weeks, 'a bit'. You see, RJ and I have itchy feet. For two people who didn't really start traveling until their early twenties - unless you count summers at the Jersey Shore or school holidays up at The Entrance as 'traveling' - we don't tend to stay still very well. It started almost as soon as we met. Three months in we booked around-the-world tickets - there were two weddings and a visa renewal to attend … [Read more...]
