US eh?

With the the Aussie dollar at a lows to the greenback not seen since the days post GFC and the Northern hemisphere about to enter winter, what better time is there to fly for 2 days to the exact opposite site of the world to Perth??  The great thing about that is you get to choose which way you want to get there.  East, West or over the top!*

We tried, unsuccessfully, to get our French fix by heading to Vietnam earlier in the year.  But as it turns out aside from the baguettes and a few buildings, there are few other odes to the former colonial overlords.  A case of don’t mention the war…or the other one.  Except that the other one is mentioned everywhere.

Anyway…after another term of French classes (where we’re not quite ready to order a coffee but if we need to warn anyone about dangers in a national park I’m certainly ready to crank out some subjunctives!) we thought it was time to try another colony.  So we’re off to Canada!!

And given we’re going all that way to Canada we thought, “how aboot we go to the US…eh?”

*Spending a week in California and 10 days in Canada might help make the long journey more…bearable, but just to be sure, after an extensive debate, we forked out for some extra leg room!

Debate transcript:

Lea: Do we really need to spend $700 on extra leg room??

James: Do we really need to spend $1000 on lunch??

Lea: Do you really need to spend $1800 on flights to Melbourne the weekend before we leave?

James (26-Sep): Um…is that one rhetorical??

James (1-Oct): That’s a great point, do you think our health insurance will cover emotional trauma??

 

So won’t you join us once more as we wait with baited breath to see if James manages to recover his sense of humour as we travel through Canada and the US eh?

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