This blog is going to be a record of our family's trip to Australia in March and April, 2008. We have been getting progressively more excited about the trip as the departure date has approached, and now that a mere week separates us from the takeoff I have been trying to tie up a lot of loose ends. One of the preparation duties I have undertaken is the founding of this travel blog, which is a first for me. I have read many blogs over the years, though, and I am not unfamiliar with the concept.
Today I spent running around trying to get Australian money, returning library books, and getting some extra digital video tapes for our camera. I have also turned my attention to this computer to research train travel down under, discovering to my dismay that trains in Oz seem to be almost as pathetic as Amtrak. (We had all the romance of train travel knocked out of us on our last trip from Montana to Michigan a few years ago; unreliable, dirty, and inconvenient, American passenger trains are really no better than taking the bus, in my opinion.)
I will try to keep these entries worth reading, but it does not appear as if I have made a very good start. Tomorrow is another day.
