Year: 2016

Niagara Falls – New York State

I have dreamed of several things ever since I was a kid.  I dreamed I would play cricket for Australia. Well that’s not going to happen. Travelling was a dream. As was wanting to see a show on the West End in London and Broadway in New York (first one […]

USA Surprises: Wildlife Prairie Park – Peoria, Illinois.

This week has been quite different. We have been staying in a small city in Illinois, called Bloomington. We chose Bloomington in part because it was a good location (2hrs in either direction would get us to either St Louis or Chicago). The other reason was because it was the […]

Gettysburg – Four Score and Seven Years Ago

One of the most incredible days we have spent while travelling - doing the Gettysburg Battlefield Tour.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so […]

Hershey’s Chocolate World

On Wednesday we went to the Hershey’s Chocolate World in Pennsylvania and we did the make your own chocolate bar.  There were three steps we had to complete: First we had to choose a base chocolate, the candy inside and design a wrapper We had to watch our chocolate go through the […]

Our (OUTLANDER) Trip of Scotland

Our Outlander Trip of Scotland Feature

It was one of the groups I follow on Facebook, where today, a friend mentioned that she was watching Outlander on Netflix (in Australia). Of course, everyone in the group gushed over the series (because it is a brilliant show and a great story). I went to post a link […]

3 Reasons Why We Didn’t Thoroughly LOVE Germany

LOPHAN family at the impressive Cologne Cathedral.

Please remember that this list is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek look at a few situations in which we found ourselves in Germany. At the time, they stressed us out, now not so much… Please don’t write and say nasty things. We know these are generalisations, and that is why this post […]

USA All the Way – East Coast America

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It has been a very long time since I have posted anything and so much has happened that to do a catch up post would be ridiculously long.  So I am just going to pick up where we are at.  We have made it safe and sound to the United […]