Travel
Related: About this forumWell, I'm about 20 hours from beginning my trip to New Zealand and Australia. I will be
gone until December 2. This is a trip first booked in Jan. 2020. Because of price increases and some other reasons, it's about a week less than what I planned back then. I will be meeting up with some friends I made on my Antarctic adventure 5 years ago. I'm spending 18 days touring both islands of New Zealand and the rest in Australia. Seeing Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru. Have long layover in Fiji on my return.

MLAA
(18,877 posts)MLAA
(18,877 posts)sinkingfeeling
(54,069 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)by inventing a tool to help sharpen the saw blades used by the prisoners to cut wood
MLAA
(18,877 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)and friend of my parents. his wife survived auschwitz.
Walleye
(37,846 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)And lamb fries are not what they’ll try to make you think.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Diamond_Dog
(35,926 posts)We’d love to hear of your experience and impressions!
Have a safe trip!
Kali
(56,073 posts)been trying to get to Australia for 15 years or more.
MontanaMama
(24,244 posts)You’re going to have the time of your life. NZ is my favorite place in the world, next to MT of course. We took a three week trip to NZ in 2013 when my kiddo was in the 2nd grade…then a 4 week trip to Australia and NZ in 2018. Wonderful people, amazing food, the most beautiful wildlife…Australian spiders would be my only exception. The birds in NZ will take your breath away. I hiked miles and miles and miles on the north and south islands. Enjoy every minute.
Phoenix61
(17,953 posts)I’m planning on going early next year.
Srkdqltr
(7,997 posts)kimbutgar
(24,189 posts)Australia is so awesome. I last went to Sydney and Melbourne in 2001. The aussies are great people. I hope to return there someday.
blm
(113,980 posts)Heheh. Hope you have a wonderful trip, sink.
👋🏽
sinkingfeeling
(54,069 posts)global1
(26,048 posts)that early voting starts on Oct 24th. Where did you vote?
ShazzieB
(19,427 posts)I'm in Illinois, and early voting started in my county on Sept 29, but only at the county clerk's office. It's a long drive up there, so I decided to wait until other early voting locations around the county open up, which is on Oct. 24th.
Don't know if that sheds any light on your situation or not, but that's how they're doing it here, fwiw.
global1
(26,048 posts)It was voter information. It indicated that Early Voting was Oct 12 - 21 M-F and Oct 24 - Nov 7 M-Sun.
It had the closest early voting site listed which I went to and a sign on the window indicated that the site change and they provided the new address. I drove over to that address and all that was there was an empty storefront. This was on Oct 20th.
I then recalled that I received another postcard from them and it had a third address for an early voting site. I went to that address and was told that early voting starts the next week on Oct 24th.
I showed them that the original mailing I received indicated that early voting started Oct 12-21.
I don't know what's going on at the Cook County Clerk's Office and was pissed that I had to chase around and still didn't get an opportunity to early vote.
I will go on Oct 24th and hopefully somebody will be there to let me vote.
Are they trying to dissuade people from early voting and is that why they provided us with bogus info? Are the shenanigans starting even before Nov 8th?
sinkingfeeling
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Phoenix61
(17,953 posts)I’m planning on going early next year and would love to hear your must see/do list.
Permanut
(6,824 posts)I don't know how my sister did it with a rented motorhome; it was the trip of a lifetime for her.
Abolishinist
(2,220 posts)prior to Covid. We actually took masks with us because at the time there were huge fires burning in Australia... as it turned out they were quite useful once back in the US.
Every place you mentioned will impart an incredible memory. We stayed at Latitude 131 degrees for the Uluru part of the trip, absolutely a fantastic place with a wonderful restaurant.
Bon Voyage!
orleans
(35,617 posts)lots of pictures please
have fun!
Bayard
(24,255 posts)Send us postcards!
New Zealand is one of the few places I still would be interested in visiting.
homegirl
(1,637 posts)first visit to New Zealand-be prepared you will be tempted to stay. I have had the
joyful experiences of three vacations to NZ. Wish I had moved there 40 years ago! Enjoy!!!
cstanleytech
(27,369 posts)ever do any traveling.
DFW
(57,208 posts)I wish I had a month free to do that. I hope you send back lots of pictures and reports to make me feel even worse.
wryter2000
(47,689 posts)I've never been to Australia, but I have to New Zealand. Be prepared to see some of the most beautiful country imaginable. I hated to see the sun go down every day.
babylonsister
(171,824 posts)Have a grand ole time!
questionseverything
(10,472 posts)Check in every now and then!