Travelling Lore

In  October 2016  we took the trip of a lifetime to Australia, Bali (Indonesia), Singapore, and the Philippines.  Because I am the slowest travel blogger ever, I am just now putting all of the photos together and revisiting old/recent memories and travels.  Since Australia was our shortest segment of the trip, we hired a guide to drive us around the Great Ocean Road, which was fantastic because it also included some wildlife viewing both in natural, wild surroundings and on a nature preserve, all in a day's worth of fun. My husband, who does a lot of the research for our big trips, booked our tour with Oceania Tours   ( this tour , specifically) after combing through reviews.  Our very amiable driver, whose name I unfortunately can't remember (because, as mentioned above, I am the slowest travel blogger ever, which leads to forgetfulness of details) picked us up at our hotel in downtown Melbourne.  And so we began our drive to the Great Ocean Road.

Wow, I can't believe this last Yosemite post has been sitting in my draft folder for 2.5 months!  This is also my very last post about our honeymoon to California, which was, at this point, over 1.5 years ago.  Talk about time flying by quickly!  Without further ado.... On our second day in Yosemite we chose to hike a few miles farther than on our first day--about eight or nine miles.  I really wish I could remember where we started the hike (I'm trying to dig back in my memory nearly 1.5 years ago now!), but the highlight of the hike was the Sentinel Dome portion.  Before you get to the top you get to hike along trails that have these amazing pine trees called Jeffrey Pines...and they literally smell like vanilla!  Talk about the little things, but I just thought that was so cool! Anway, the hike to Sentinel Dome is well known for having the most famous Jeffrey Pine of them all, or what's known as the Ansel Adams tree (see his photo ).  Unfortunately, dr