One week countdown
4 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Meet Beber (German for Beaver), our trusted travel mascot. His first trip with us was to Germany 9 years ago. He is just as ramped up for the trip as us. Wish he’d help us with the packing. Our goalLeia mais
Wood Castle partial day (David)
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
Getting way ahead at work so I can really enjoy the vacation.
Bit of a rainy morning to start.
Pre flight lunch
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Loaded Soup at Qdoba
Last Minute Disc Golf
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Round at Adair
All packed and ready, but...
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Our flight to SFO is delayed. Crossing our fingers we are still okay to make connection.
On way to Eug airport
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
On road now, just got another update. More delay. We now have 30 min to get to our plane leg to Sydney. 😞 in another terminal.
This is such a sad situation...
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Next available they say is Saturday!!!!!! We are still at airport trying to find a better situation. ☹️😖😣😧 many emotions, none good.
Home until tomorrow
11 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
So, here's the current situation . . .
Tomorrow we will be going to the airport for a second try. Both Brenda and I will be flying from Eugene to San Fran together (Econo Plus).
We are leavingLeia mais
On our way to Eugene airport again
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
We are gonna try it again today. Wish us lots of luck.
Negotiations at the counter
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Still trying to get him on my flight in Business class. No luck yet.
Eugene Gate
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Waiting for our flight
So, finally good news!
We are both flying First Class from Eugene to SF AND we are now going to be on the same plane and both of us in First class there as well.
Took aLeia mais
First Class leg 1
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
Here we go!
California Fires
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
On the way.
San Fran Global Lounge
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Our home until flight time
Getting ready to board soon
12 de outubro de 2017, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I think this is really gonna happen!!! Whoa, get ready for the adventure. 😮
Coming into Sydney
14 de outubro de 2017, Coral Sea ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Just about there!
Some recaps from the trip.
I managed to move my seat once again, so this time I was in row one of Polaris class, two seats away from Brenda.
The nice man sitting next to me wasLeia mais
Landed and ready to go to the place
14 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Brenda hooking us up with Uber
Customs was super easy.
Most of it was electronic since we have the passports with the chip. You go to a self serve station, scan the passport, answer a couple ofLeia mais
Our Sydney Home Base
14 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Our main location for Sydney
We got the tour from our super awesome host. She even was nice enough to discount the day that we were unable to make it, so now we have a little bit of Aussie $$$ toLeia mais
First Walkabout
14 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Checking out the bay
We went for quite the walk. Saw an intense cricket match, lots of excellent views of the bay including a long distance view of the Sydney Bridge. Plus, our training to use theLeia mais
Pies for lunch!
14 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Tandoori Veggies for Brenda, meat pie for me.
We also got some chips that seemed to be Aussie inspired.
Visited the grocery store and had fun picking up a few items for our week. Brenda wanted toLeia mais
Dinner Walkabout
14 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
In search of Elvis.
Public Transit Day
15 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Let's check out the city! But before heading out we got to enjoy the Aussie version of ‘Lassie’. ‘Skippy’ the kangaroo. Older show, about same time as Lassie. Very cheesy with fake animal pawsLeia mais
Sydney botanical garden
15 de outubro de 2017, Austrália ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
We only got to see a corner of Gardens. They are huge.











































































ViajanteI get the big suitcase. 😉