Australia

Ziah

We're travelling overseas now, while we are young enough to be able to go all the places and do all the things we want to do. Then we can see more of Australia when we are too old to be climbing the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building or hiking the Grand Canyon, or kayaking the Colorado River, or Skiing in Aspen, or riding the rollercoasters at every Disney or Six Flags park in the world or anything else we have done/will do. Touring Australia is something to be done leisurely, over many weeks or months, to truly enjoy what it means to be Australian. It is not something to be hurried or crammed into the only holiday time we can get right now. Touring Australia is not fitting in ten cities in ten days, or seeing how far you can get on a Berocca - it's slowing down, watching the sunset and sunrise at the same beach, or dropping a line in and not caring if you catch anything, or snorkelling over the Great Barrier Reef every day for a week, or riding a horse along a deserted beach, or climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or taking a coupe of weeks to drive the Great Ocean Drive, or across the Nullarbor, or taking the Ghan or the Indian Pacific, or hiking through Kakadu or game fishing off Exmouth, or any number of beautiful adventures that require far more time than work will permit right now. Australia is for when we have time to appreciate it. That's why overseas adventures tend to come first, and Australia later in life.