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Adventures with Aster

Camping With a Puppy

Yes! It is possible to find adventure and camp with a puppy in your life.  It just requires a little bit of extra preparation, a sensible approach, and a dog-friendly setting.  June long weekend, we took five-month-old Aster on her first camping trip.  As first-time puppy parents we were optimistic about the trip because Aster […]

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Other Adventures Travel

A Road Trip I Would Love to Take

America and Australia are excellent road trip countries. America has its interstates and iconic routes like Route 66 that pass through middle-America towns, both beloved and forgotten, and past famous landmarks. Australia has wide-open expanses of country, stunning coastlines and roads that take drivers through small country towns and their bakeries. Growing up in America […]

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South Australia Regional SA

SA Weekend Getaway: Black Point

Sometimes, you just want to get away and it doesn’t really matter where you go or what you do.  After being cooped up in the house for three months during the peak of South Australia’s coronavirus restrictions, this was exactly how we felt. Luckily, SA’s restrictions were eased slightly, just in time for June long […]

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Day Trips from Adelaide South Australia

Port Hughes

I should probably explain that my fiancé has a special, weekend-drive car.  This means he belongs to a car club and from time to time they go on car cruises (i.e. they all drive together in a convoy to a predetermined spot).  I’m not much of a car person and I really can’t follow half […]

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Our Ski Adventures Skiing Travel

Perisher 2018: The Drive Over

We’ve made it to Perisher! And, oh my gosh, what an interesting drive. It was a long drive; 14.5 hours plus stops from Adelaide’s CBD to Perisher’s Ski Tuber terminal at Bullocks Flat. It has been a while since I’ve done a road trip that long, but it had a few odd and amusing moments. […]