I have been blogging and journaling our travels for a number of years and it is always great fun to go back and read about our adventures. I try to capture the ups and downs of these trips mixed with a bit of humor and the occasional snarky observation. I hope they might be useful if you are thinking about traveling to any of these places as well. My first travel adventure was in 1981 when I spent almost a year traveling around Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific Islands and the joy of travel has never left me.