November 21st, 2005
Just for the geographically unaware 
here is some maps of our travels.
Map 1: Australia
This map shows the general travel paths we're taking. The blue dotted line is the flight between Sydney to Adelaide and back again. The red solid line is the driving that will be done.
Map 2: South Australia
Driving from Adelaide to Berri, and back again. If you look north of Adelaide, you can see Pt Augusta and Quorn, which I talked about here.
November 21st, 2005
Deidre and I will be travelling around parts of Australia for a month, and this is our itinerary.
2005
Saturday 10 Dec
Wellington 6am - Sydney 7:40am
Sydney 1:45pm - Adelaide 3:20pm
(Notes: while in Adelaide, will be staying with Deidre's dad and catching up with the following people: Phillip and Stephen (my brothers), Simon and Ben (friends I haven't seen for over a decade), and Jocelyn, a friend of Deidre's.)
Sunday 11 Dec
Xmas party at Deidre's dad's
Tuesday 13 Dec
Renting a car and driving to Berri, to visit my parents
Wednesday 14 Dec
Driving back to Adelaide
November 3rd, 2005
I'm sitting here in the New Plymouth airport now, after a full day of doing a bit of client implementation. Now we're (work colleague and I) are sitting here waiting for our flight to board. The plane hasn't even arrived yet, and we're due to board in maybe 20 minutes. The airport here is quite small. Only propellor planes come here. We came here this morning via a direct flight, but there's no direct flights back to Wellington, so we're flying to Auckland where we'll jump into a 737 (yay!) for the flight back to Wellington. If you're in America, for example, that's like flying from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, in order to get to San Francisco. Yes, stupid. But hey, this is New Zealand, where things like this don't make much sense. One of the clients today was saying that it costs them $300 to go to a town to another town here in the North Island (I can't remember which one), but only $140 to go to Australia. Go figure…
November 2nd, 2005
Well, not exactly on the road, but more like in the air!
I love airports. I'm sitting in the Wellington airport right now, at almost 8:30am, waiting to jump onto a plane to New Plymouth. I love aiports because of the variety of people you get to see. Some nervous, some relaxed, some excited, happy, sad… all kinds of emotions are playing out on the faces the people around me. Most of them, at this time, are travelling for work purposes, just like me.
September 13th, 2005
Over here I talked about the holiday plans Deidre and I were making, to travel to Australia. It's been a relatively painful thing to do!
We've had to work out the dates that we were going to go there and return, as well as the dates that we'd be in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, and back to Wellington. Three cities in 4 weeks, with countless family members and friends to see in that time.
Oh God, the pain!
July 13th, 2005
Deidre and I spent close to 4 hours last night working on our joint budget plans, to help us save money for the upcoming trip to Australia. We're doing a 'first', for both of us, and combining our incomes into one single amount and paying almost everything from our joint account. It's really quite exciting to think that we could have up to $11,000 saved in the next 5 months, by combining our incomes and being stringent with our spending.
February 22nd, 2004
I'm going on a road trip around the North Island of New Zealand next month! It's with Mel, and I'm really looking forward to it. We've been planning it over the past month or so, and I've finally completed all the preparations from my side, including accommodation bookings.
For your information, I have it below:
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DAY ONE
Sunday 14th March
Wellington
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Wanganui
http://www.wanganui.com/gallery/scenic.html
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New Plymouth
http://www.nzpictures.co.nz/newplymouth.htm
355 km
Accommodation:
http://sunflowerlodge.co.nz/
DAY TWO
Monday 15th March
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New Plymouth - Waitomo Caves
http://www.new-zealand.com/WaitomoCaves/
182 km
Accommodation:
http://www.junowaitomo.co.nz/
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Map 2: South Australia
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