1pm Sunday 2nd Sept. Uploaded a couple of test pics, just because I could. Also trying out the journal, even though tomorrow marks the real start of ...
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1pm Sunday 2nd Sept. Uploaded a couple of test pics, just because I could. Also trying out the journal, even though tomorrow marks the real start of the trip. Haven't started packing yet, but reckon it will all be over and done in about 20mins tonight... famous last words? Plan is to take the absolute minimum possible.. then take a little bit less!.. hmm.. lets try the pics.. better get this working before we're on the road. This was taken by Sports-Pix.com during my recent running of the 2007 Pub 2 Pub. Was a beautiful day starting at Dee Why beach and ending at the Newport Arms Hotel(Pub). C...
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A couple of key points up front: the train service we used back in 2004 to travel from Auckland to Tongariro (National Park Village) has since been ...
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A couple of key points up front: the train service we used back in 2004 to travel from Auckland to Tongariro (National Park Village) has since been discontinued. While the day rides are still available, the night run we took both there and back has been discontinued. Also, our planned tramp along Tongariro Crossing got rained out - so we spent the day wandering around the very small village of National Park, wandering twice back to Eivens to drown our sorrows in wine. Almost enough to make up for the rain! Well, not quite. 4 Jan 2004: The flight from Sydney is longer than we expected - but cer...
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A factoid about Quantas (besides the fact that per Rainman, it's the world's safest airline) is this: When Cyclone Tracy devastated the town of Darwin ...
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A factoid about Quantas (besides the fact that per Rainman, it's the world's safest airline) is this: When Cyclone Tracy devastated the town of Darwin at Christmas 1974, Qantas established a world record for the most people ever embarked on a single aircraft when they evacuated 673 people on a single Boeing 747 flight. Gee, I hope they have forgotten or at least forgiven me! Hello from Sydney. The Quay West hotel is a truely magnificant property right downtown, 3 blocks vfrom the cruise terminal. The flight was another story mate. Seems to me if you go to all that trouble to build the biggest,...
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