Category Archives: travel

It’s a beauty way to go

Posted on February 19, 2012 by waggadventure

Lisa here… I’m slowly recovering from my January trip back to North America (mainly the email backlog and change in temps; no problem with jet lag really). For those of you who weren’t aware (though you should have clued in … Continue reading →

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across the great divide

Posted on December 20, 2011 by waggadventure

In our last episode, we were in Canberra eating Ethiopian food. The purpose of that trip was to take Lisa’s visiting scholar to the Capital for some meetings. One of the things the guest requested, when Lisa asked her pre-trip … Continue reading →

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Everything is upside down

Posted on December 16, 2011 by waggadventure

People here walk the streets eating pie with their hands, but we go to an Ethiopian restaurant and they give us cutlery. Weird country! Of course the server did point out that we are in Canberra, which is a pretty … Continue reading →

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I can see for miles

Posted on November 30, 2011 by waggadventure

When people ask us if it has been hard to leave all our friends and family behind, we say  “yes, of course.” But we also say that the move to Edmonton was probably a bigger move. All of our family was, … Continue reading →

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Comfort creatures: Herding cats – the homecoming edition, Part 1

Posted on August 9, 2011 by waggadventure

This is a song about being happy! Feel free to listen to it as you read. Our family is finally all together here in our new home. Our kitties arrived yesterday, after a month in, as MO calls it, Kitty … Continue reading →

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Pay as you go

Posted on July 9, 2011 by waggadventure

And we’re here!  After about 19 hours in the air, and about 6 more waiting in airports, we arrived in Wagga on the afternoon of July 7 and checked in to The Lawson Motor Inn, where we are staying for … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Canada, cultural differences, money, passports, travel, Visa | 4 Comments

Herding cats, part 3

Posted on July 5, 2011 by waggadventure

We know by reading the waggadventure stats that posts about our three kitties are popular. So, here is another one… documenting some of our most serious “Oh fuck” moments of the days leading up to “airport day”. In the few … Continue reading →

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It’s all relevant

Posted on June 28, 2011 by waggadventure

The purpose of this blog is to talk about moving to Australia, not just ramble on about our daily lives.  So if we are going to post about our UK trip, it needs to have some relevance.  This is actually … Continue reading →

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Allied Forces

Posted on June 9, 2011 by waggadventure

Packing. The longer you are going for, and the farther away, the harder it gets.  Degrees of difficulty, on a scale of 1 to 10: Quick weekend drive out of town: 1 Flying across the country for a week: 2 … Continue reading →

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