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I know some of you wanted me to put my car around the track, and i would have loved too, however it is not Bathurst and thus i could only view it from the sideline. They were actually packing up from a few days of moto raacing and they had pretty much everything open to allow them to pack up. So i could pretty much go anywhere, so yes there is photos of m me gong places i shouldnt be. Oh well, and i so could have gone on the track to as you can see in some photos. Decided against it, not sure why. I think because there were cranes and stuff on the track i thought best not to. Anyway here are the picturess. Again i could not be bothered sorting the blurring ones or ones pointing at nothing, so you can do that

Also most of them should be GPS marked if your interested.

Well tonight is my 2nd last night of my 2month trip around the USA and Canada. What an amazing trip it has been! Seen so many places, done so many things and met so many great people. Part of me wants to stay longer and goto places i missed like Yosemite National Park and San Dieago and go back to Vegas, but the other half of me is telling me i need a break and have a holiday from my holiday. So i will continue as planned and finish up my holiday and come back at another stage in life.

Iam currently in beautiful Monterey Bay. Havent really planned anything to do so just chillaxing.

Anyway here are some photos of my trip since Miami. When i get home i will put the rest up and try and remember some stories that go with them. Anyway peace out and see you all soon enough.

This is a photo map of the swamp tour we did on the air boats in Orlando. Click HERE for fullscreen.

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Here are the photos from the helicopter ride and hike into the Grand Canyon today. Click HERE for full screen version.

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Day 4 and 5 saw us travelling upto Windang just shy of Wollongong. What a beautiful cruisy drive that was. The scenery was great, the roads were relatively quiet and it was a fairly quick drive at about 2hours 45minutes. The caravan park we stayed at was between Lake Illawarra and the ocean which again was nice. Also being so close to Wollongong we didnt have any trouble shopping or getting food etc. In fact anything we needed was within walking distance. Unfortunately for us we were allocated a site which was stuck between several families with feral kids. Although they wernt too troublesome it would have been nice not to have woken up to swearing and kids running around making a racket.

5 day long weekend this year, what a waste to stay at home. We decided to break the weekend up into parts. First the friday and saturday somewhere and come back for dinner Saturday night, Sunday lunch and Dinner then back off again for Monday/Tuesday. We didnt know where we were going until the morning of each day which was half the fun of it I guess.

We left Canberra at about 1030am Friday morning down the Monaro Hwy to Cooma, Bega then onto Bermagui. The roads were fairly busy to Cooma with lots of other holiday traffic, but from Bega right though to Bermagui it was a nice clear run. The GPS led us from Bega along a dirt road to Bermagui for a good 20KMs which funnily enough was nice. Was a quiet peaceful road with only 2 other cars that went past us.

Once back on the tar it was a great relaxing drive to Bermagui and the campsite. The caravan park was really nice located between Lake Wallaga and the ocean. There were plenty of free camp sites availiable access to the amenities. However getting the car to the camp site proved troublesome being as low as it is it would scrape on almost everything.

Saturday morning after checking out we decided to drive home back up the coast. We drove past Tilba which had what seemed like some festival going on. We decided to drive in only to be directed by the local girl scouts to some grassed parking however again the car was too low and there was more unpleasant scrapping. We didnt end up going into the festival but it was a nice area.

From Tilba we kept heading up the coast to Narooma where we had a morning tea and swim.

After that headed to a friends place in Sunshine Bay for a quick break before a drive back through Batemans Bay, the Clyde Mountain and home. Was a great few days away.

Ok so after about a year of planning and organising my USA and Canada trip is 100% paid for and booked. The itinerary is finalised and there is no turning back now! It hasn’t really set in actually how close this trip is, looking at the dates I leave in about 1 month 1 week. The stress and nervousness probably won’t kick in for another 3 weeks id say. I think iam ontract with organising what I need to prepare, pack, organise but as always iam sure there will be a massive last minute rush.

Anyway here is the Itinerary:

Below is a photo map of my North America holiday in May/June/July 2011. Click HERE for the fullscreen version.

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Another permit on the white Maverick/Patrol meant more fun in the wild Brindies. Also was a good chance to test out my new camera. Its a Samsung WB650 with built in GPS which geotags the photos which is cool. Iam yet to find a cool way to incorporate that into the blog but shouldnt be hard. Anyway I am feeling pretty lazy to write too much in here about the trip out and will let the pictures/videos do most of the talking. But essentially the mighty Mav, Big Red and the lil Suzi went out to see how many times we could get stuck or how many pointless hills we could climb…i lost count.

Anyway the story in pictures…

Videos can be found here:

http://www.davidmckell.net/category/videos/