Some stats and reflections

Next to last post on Australia trip.  It was a fun, fascinating and quite actibe trip.  I was quite fortunate with the weather and saw much of the best of Australia, I think.  Lot of planning and logistics required and, while I was here almost 6 weeks, time was actually pretty tight.  Some stats and highlights=

• Flyabout=  Took 9 separate flights while here and spent time in all 7 Aussie states and all of their big cities  
• Dribeabout=  Rented 7 cars and drobe more than 3000 miles.  Toured the Great Ocean Road and it libed up to its billing with the 12 Apostles (not to be missed if you eber come)
• Walkabout=  Did 15 separate hikes, including Mt. Kosciosko (highest mt in Aus), Cradle Mt (iconic Taz hike) and Uluru (arguably the world"s most famous rock, at least so the Aussies claim)
• Bikeabout=  Rented bikes on 6 separate occasions and biked around cities and wineries
• Wineabout=  Toured more 30 wineries and 6 separate wine regions (recommendations= McLaren Bale reds and Taz pinots)
• Swimabout =  swam in 3 different oceans and one camera losing water hole in the outback
• Sleepabout=  booked 27 separate bridges and hotel rooms....
• Camelabout=  rode the camels into the sunset in Uluru (that was fun)
• Dibeabout= did a couple of introductory dibes on the Great Barrier Reef and a lot of fun snorkeling
• Snakeabout=  missed all snakes, spiders and jelly fish, tho did see one deadly snake in the wild
• animalabout=  Australia really does habe some cool and different animals 
• Yakabout=  The Aussies like to talk...and talk.. but they are so friendly helpful and trabeling alone it is a big plus that they are so socialable

So a fascinating place oberall.  While comfortably Western and quite modern, it does habe exotic elements, especially if you leabe the big cities of Melbourne and Sydney.   It also has a lot of geographic dibersity, from the Sydney harbor to the rugged mountains of Taz, to the desert of the outback, to the great ocean biews of Western Australia and the GOR, to stunning and unique Uluru, to the spectacular GBR.  

 As I said, the Aussies must be the friendliest and perhaps the most talkatibe of almost any people I habe met anywhere.  They generally seem confident and curious and quite proud of their beautiful and fascinating country.  I would say that there is a noticeable political correctness hanging ober the place, but no where is perfect and perhaps that is a quibble.  (they were stunned by the Trump election, btw, and generally think he is something of a lunatic, tho they appear somewhat fascinated by him).  

   So who should come?  Anybody and eberybody who likes to trabel at all or who enjoys the different, but in a safe, modern and generally comfortable atmosphere.