How this Saga Began....

Before we can begin documenting our Australian Adventure, you must understand the origin of this great journey...

Some great ideas come from months of research, with men doning white coats sitting around discussing hypothesis and theory. As it is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, it is only fitting that our GREAT idea came about this very year; yet ours came about in a very organic way. Our great idea started with Vegas, 8 days of Vegas.

While working, I had planned a Vegas weekend with friends for my quarter-life crisis, but upon being laid-off, and Jeri being unemployed due to her relocation back to the bay, suddenly staying in Vegas for the whole week seemed like a good plan, and Jeri agreed. That's when all of the crazy ideas began (it could have also been the wine and vodka--guess we will never know!)

When you aren't working, anything seems possible, so maybe just as a joke, we threw around the idea of traveling to Australia, and it stuck. Soon friends (you know who you are) asked, "are you guys really going to go, or are you just saying that to mess with Garrett and Jason?" Perhaps at first it was a little bit of both!?

The rest of the time Jeri and I were in Vegas, we met some amazing people, we were definitely spoiled, danced with Akon, took a picture with Evander Holyfield (I was on the earless side, see above) and karaoked with some southern boys. We had a blast, but besides realizing that we can never do 8 days in Vegas again, we decided to actually follow through with our travel ambitions and see Australia. So although 8 days of Vegas was way too much for us to handle again, we are ready to embark on 5 weeks in the Land Down Under!

Our flight takes off Friday Feb. 20th at 10:30pm, so stay tuned!