Hi Ann Thanks - the trip was one we had been sort of planning for almost 30 years! Now to go back to some of the places we visited and spend a bit more time there (packing and unpacking every few days does get a bit wearing after a while....)
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:25 -0400, "ann sanfedele" <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > Brian - although I didn't go through it in great detail (that's just my > lifestyle these days) I did enjoy checking out your > travel journal that Christine posted because it is exactly the kind of > trip I love -- coast to coast by ground transportation in > one's country of residence... driving being first choice. Of course, > "coast to coast" in some areas isn't quite as long a journey > as you too or has I've taken :-) > > Look forward to your Pesos > > ann > http://annsan.smugmug.com > > Brian Walters wrote: > > >G'day all > > > >I'm back from my 7 week trip across Australia (east to west and back > >again). All up, 4,200 km by train and 10,300 km driving. > > > >Did I miss anything? > > > >A few things I learned on the trip: > > > >1. Red wine and laptop keyboards don't play well together. > > > >2. Dave Savage is a good bloke (although I'd already guessed that). > > > >3. The D700 is a monster camera (well...compared to my K200D and > >istDS). > > > >4. Never count on the weather being cooperative when you feel like > >doing some 'serious' photography (the weather was particularly foul for > >most of the trip). > > > >5. Film is dead! As usual I packed one film camera (an ME-F this time) > >and a few rolls of film. They weren't used. > > > > > >While in Perth I found an exhibition of Richard Woldenthorp's aerial > >landscape photography at the Art Gallery. The exhibition, titled > >'Abstract Earth', featured photographs of patterns in the Australian > >landscape taken from about 1,500 metres. There's a slide show of the > >photographs here, if anyone would like to take a look: > > > >http://www.richardwoldendorp.com/exhibition/index.htm > > > > > >I'm still sorting though my photos in the hope that there might be a few > >I can PESO. In the meantime, if anyone wants to see where we went and > >what we did, there are some low res photos on our holiday blog. Some of > >you might have already seen some of it (thanks, Christine, for posting > >the link): > > > >http://www.blognow.com.au/gowest/ > > > > > > > >Cheers > > > >Brian -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
