My 2008 Australia VacationMy 2008 Australia VacationAustralian Vacation Planning: Help me plan my vacation, and learn from my planning approach. I am going to Australia in early 2008, and am building this blog as a resource both for myself and for other travellers. Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania Articles
Five More Thoughts (for now) About a 9000-Mile Trip
2007-04-13 22:08:00 As I mentioned in my original rationale post, I was always worried about a 24-hour trip door-to-door. I had done 15 before, flying to a small town in Sweden for a work project. But my perspective changed after flying to Singapore last year. I had difficultly sleeping on the 14 hour flight ... More About: Thoughts , About , Thought , Trip , Mile
Travellers and Travelogues BUMPzee Community
2007-04-13 17:47:00 Thanks to Matt Coddington at Net Business Blog for pointing out that the BUMPzee community has opened up to topics beyond affiliate marketing. Members can set up communities within BUMPzee, add RSS feeds to them (either their own or others they like) and enable other members to join their community. Posts from RSS ... More About: Travel , Community , Muni , Rave , Elle
My Approach to Jet Lag: Adjust in Advance
2007-04-12 18:58:00 In my last post, I set up the problem for flying to Australia during the US Winter/Australian Summer: It is a 17 hour time zone difference, with an early morning arrival in Sydney. The best thing to do in order to get in a full day of sightseeing is to sleep as long ... More About: Just , Roach , Adjust , Vance
Dealing with Time Zones
2007-04-11 20:19:00 In January, Sydney is 17 hours ahead of the US Central Time Zone . The trip is about 27 hours including ground time on either end. So what is the best way to deal with the potential for jet lag? The way I look at it, the time zone difference is the same ... More About: With , Deal , Ealing
A Two-Part Photo Contest
2007-04-10 21:23:00 As has been pointed out to me by a good friend of mine, none of the photos in my blog header have anything to do with Australia. I thought I had acknowledged that by putting the “insert photo here” in the center. Oh, well… But the thought occured to me that this is a ... More About: Contest , Photo , Part , Test , Contes
Using OneSuite to call home from Australia
2007-04-09 21:43:00 OneSuite is a reseller of long distance “calling card” services, except that the calling card has been replaced with a web browser. I have been using OneSuite for about four years for my international trips. Now that I have Skype on my laptop, I will not use OneSuite as much. But using ... More About: Australia , Home , Sing , Call , Stra
Tips for Bald Guys
2007-04-09 06:23:00 I am not bald, although at 42 my hairline is starting to receed just a little in the corners. But Dave is bald, and he is going to backpack around the world starting at the end of 2007, including New Zealand (so maybe Australia too??). Dave has a useful travel tips post ... More About: Tips , Guys , Irritating
Thinking Aloud: Days 1 and 2 (Sydney)
2007-04-08 18:20:00 Back in this post, I outlined the current draft for the vacation. The first four and a half days are well set, because of Qantas’ schedule to Uluru. Qantas only flys Ayers Rock-Melbourne a couple of days a week, so I am flying Sydney -Ayers Rock on Saturday morning and Ayers-Rock-Melbourne on Monday ... More About: Think , Days , King , Loud
Seven (and Two More) Tips for Travel with a Laptop
2007-04-07 16:49:00 Fellow MyBlogLogger Chris Mitchell has an excellent post in his blog on Thailand and East Asia travel with Seven Tips for Taking a Laptop Travel ling. There are some great ideas there, especially about protecting yourself in the event somebody finds (or “obtains”) your laptop. I’ll add two more ideas: PortableApps.com is a suite of free ... More About: With , Rave
AIG Travel Guard Insurance
2007-04-07 03:39:00 An update on my quest for travel medical and emergency cancellation insurance. After research of various companies and policies, I selected AIG Travel Guard Extended for my trip. I selected AIG because of my specific needs, including older parents and personal pre-existing medical conditions, and because it was actually a mainstream company. ... More About: Insurance , Rave , North Las Vegas
Broke the 2 Million Mark, sort of.
2007-04-06 06:22:00 I checked technorati tonight, and found out that I have broken the 2,000,000 mark. Unfortunately, one of the links is from an idiot who is scraping John Chow’s site and therefore linked to me with another Batch 52 post. Of course I sent John a heads-up, and when that site gets taken down I’ll be ... More About: Lion , Sort , Mark , Million
Greetings New Readers - A Few Posts You Might Have Missed
2007-04-05 19:24:00 The response to this blog has been great. I was working on it for much of March, but did not officially start promoting it until a week ago. In fact, it is still not completely out of Google’s sandbox yet, as I had tweaked the Wordpress options not to let Google index ... More About: Readers , Post , Reader , Read , Greetings
Your Turn: Sydney Food Recommendations
2007-04-05 06:05:00 One night, A$40 plus money for wine/beer, dining alone in Sydney . You have a transit pass but no car. You can’t eat peanuts. Where do you go, what do you order, and why should I go? Share This More About: Food , Men , Your , Comm
Use Visa for Your Car Rental in Australia, Not American Express
2007-04-05 04:43:00 I was stunned to find out that Australia is one of five countries excluded for rental car insurance on my America n Express card. I am going to be doing a fair amount of driving (at least two days at Ayers’ Rock, at least three in Tasmania, probably one or two in Melbourne), and ... More About: Rental , Press , American Express
Eating a bush tucker?
2007-04-04 10:26:00 Benjamin Christie is a young Australian celebrity chef who’s blog I came across while searching MyBlogLog for Australian-themed blogs. One of the interesting posts on his blog is about “bush tucker” restaurants. Ok, now that got me curious… It turns out that “bush tucker” is another way of saying “native Australian” and using ingredients indiginous to ... More About: Bush , Eating , Tucker
23 Things I Want to Do, See, or Eat On My Vacation in Australia
2007-04-03 16:07:00 23 things that came to my mind yesterday and this morning: Meet my extended family (father’s first cousins) in Melbourne Walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge Taronga Zoo Walk 300,000 steps over 20 days Find a better Aussie beer than Foster’s Tour a vineyard and find a great Shiraz I cannot find in America Not gain more than six pounds Tour the Sydney ... More About: Cat , Australia , Vacation , Things , Want
Telstra: Expensive Wi-Fi
2007-04-02 13:54:00 Telstra is one of the big wi-fi hotspot providers in Sydney and Melbourne, including a bunch of McDonald’s and Starbucks. But it is much more expensive than T-Mobile and AT&T here in the USA. Telstra charges A$5 for just 15 minutes of access, or A$14 for an hour, with a whopping A$27.50 ... More About: Wi-Fi , Pens , Stra , Telstra
Heading Bush - Squage and Pat
2007-04-02 02:51:00 I do not know Squage and Pat personally, but I like their writing style. I found them from a blog search on Google. They are on an around the world trip from their home in the UK, with most of the time spent in Australia. It appears that they are having a ... More About: Bush , Head , Heading
The Three Essential Medications to Take on An International Vacation
2007-04-01 08:17:00 I am sitting at home tonight nursing a pulled muscle in my foot, and it got me to making a list: besides your normal prescriptions, what are the most important medications to take on a vacation to another country? I am not a doctor, just a guy on a computer, but I would ... More About: International , National , Cat , Inter , Vacation
I am 2,957,583rd!! John Chow is 149th.
2007-04-01 02:23:00 Yes, you read that correctly. I am rated a whopping 2,957,583rd on Technorati. Technorati is a website which measures how many people link to your web site. This blog is new, it has no significant links from the outside world. So it is one of almost three million sites ... More About: John , Chow , John Cho , S 14
Tasmania Blogroll
2007-03-31 03:55:00 Searching around for blogs on Australia vacations yields a lot of spam-ish blog sites. Fortunately, Tasmania is just far enough from the mainstream where you can find some interesting links: Full Blog s about Tasmania: Birds in Tasmania Tasmania in Photographs - I especially like some of the “Coast and Bay” category entries Entries in travel-related blogs: Tasmania Travel Blogs ... More About: Blogroll , Mani , Roll
I am going to miss Australian Rules Football
2007-03-29 01:48:00 I am very disappointed in the fact that Australia n Rules Football will not be taking place while I am in Australia. The season runs from roughly April 1 to October 1. It’s already on the to-see list for the next trip. Share This More About: Australian , Miss
Sixty ?great short walks? for Tasmania
2007-03-27 00:51:00 The Parks and Wildlife Service in Tasmania has a set of 60 Great Short Walk s in locations throughout Tasmania. These walks are as short as half a kilometer, and have a variety of difficulties. The web site has both an interactive guide and a downloadable PDF file. Share This More About: Mani , Sixty
I?m ticketed, aka how a work crisis cost me $186
More articles from this author:2007-03-25 23:24:00 I had planned on getting my trip ticketed a three weeks ago. Now, getting a vacation ticketed nine months in advance is a little insane, even by my standards. But there are only two flights per day with upgrade inventory available, and the coach seats which are used to set the base ... More About: Work , Cost , Ticket , Crisis , Isis 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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