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NEW BLOG FOR AUSSIE TRAVEL 2023.   Hi All - well it's been a Looong time since we used the Blog.  Our Website 'Living-our-dream.com' was closed some time ago due to cost of maintaining it.  So thought we would go back to the blog and see how that goes. We are leaving on 14 Jan 2023 to do a trip around Australia. The intention is, at this stage, to head for Tamworth in NSW for 4 days of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. After that we will travel to Newcastle to visit John & Vicki for a few days then a slow trip to Bright in Victoria for three days of The Adventure Travellers Film Festival. Next we intend to follow the Murray River to Adelaide and then just keep on going and see how far we get.  Hopefully across the Nullabor to Western Australia, up to Broom, to Darwin then home again somewhere around October? We are travelling in a Holden Colorado towing a 6 Meter 5th Wheeler. So we headed off on the 14th January and stayed the night at a Karara a little blip on the m
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Hi Again

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HI ALL.... Well we have in fact been quite busy since the last post and have done an extensive amount of travel. We have been up to Alaska, across Canada down the East Coast/Appalacians of USA and across to Texas then down through Mexico, Belize, Guatamala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. WE DID SET UP A NEW WEBSITE BUT HAVE SINCE SHUT IT DOWN FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS INCLUDING UPKEEP COSTS, ETC.
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USA 1

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1 November 2010 AMERICA! Land of the Free... and the most amazingly friendly and helpful people we are ever likely to meet. This was part of the appeal to return to this beautiful country, and we are pleased to see that nothing has changed. While waiting for the trucks to clear Customs, John has enjoyed some super days with old friends, who are cowboys. The whole family was extremely competitive in shooting competitions, and their son has just won a scholarship to University, through rodeo! ** Tom on Tango Two of our trucks were offloaded successfully, but Customs decided to retain the other 2 trucks for X-ray, so a further charge of $800 each on top of the $800 we had already paid. A much more expensive exercise shipping into the States, than into Asia. However, we are off to Carlsbad, San Diego, to visit with a delightful 83yr old friend, who is truly inspirational! ** La Vonne and 1 of her 3 cars The truck has been serviced, and we are $2200 poorer, but confident of a good trip. Our
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Blog 11 - Back to China Again

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CHINA AGAIN An early start, collected by cab at 5.30am for the bus to Harbin. A long boring 15hr trip, but arrive at The Holiday Inn, to a luxurious room with the best bed we have slept in! Oooh luxury! Once we negotiate our way across the road, dodging crazy drivers as is customary in China, we prowl a great shopping area, with beautifully illuminated older buildings. Walk to the waterfront, but is cold, and of course, so much smog, you can't see beyond the other side! We spend 2 lovely days here. This is the Ice & Snow city, where the Ice Sculptures are done in January. Then, we fly to Beijing. Good 2hour flight. Caught a cab to Capital Hotel – right in downtown Beijing. I am amazed that there are not nearly as many people as I expected! Except when we went to watch the changing of the guard at sunset - then we saw some of the 1.6billion people! We paused a moment to visualise the young student who stood alone and faced an army of tanks, during the student revolution. An awe
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