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Victoria, Australia

During Mum's recent visit to Australia, we did a fair bit of traveling. In her 5 weeks stay here, I think we did more than 5000 km around Victoria and New South Wales. A graphical representation of the places we went to:





I know the map above can be customized with Google map, but I don't know how, dammit! Techonolgy, sigh...


Some of our highlights:


1. Saw most of Victoria's attractions.

2. Went from oh, total driving mileage in Melbourne = 5 km to scoring a massive 900 kms during our drive up to Sydney. It was fantastic because I've never done it before, we've pushed ourselves to drive overnight after a day of work and there's just something magical being on the road in a tiny 2-door Ford at 3 am.

3. Went to Dimboola, which is a small small country town, (population: 1700) from which Sonya hails from. Mom and I had such a wonderful time, I'm in love with her parents and it's just such a different experience!

4. Took a lot of photographs. Will post them with notes here soon.

As my tagline: too many things to do, too little time!







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