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Grand Canyon And Arizona Snow

Grand Canyon And Arizona Snow ©Exploramum and Explorason – gorgeous glass church sits in a bed of Arizona snow We have just had two days of Arizona snow and cold weather. We had made a quick trip to stores and did the rounds on a couple of other stores to find warm clothes for this […]

Route 66 Road Trip Laughlin to Flagstaff

Route 66 Road Trip Laughlin to Flagstaff Route 66 is one of the most famous roads in the USA and our Route 66 road trip takes us from Laughlin to Flagstaff near the Grand Canyon.  “Have you won Lotto?”. This is a comment I have just received on Facebook. My answer is “no”, I have not […]

Joshua Tree to Laughlin via Route 66

Joshua Tree to Laughlin via Route 66 We picked this trip to Joshua Tree area after some good advice from luxury travel experts as we depart, so we sadly say goodbye to Palm Springs and are on the road for our single parent travel adventure. Our faithful GPS takes us the longest and most boring way […]

Gorgeous Palm Springs Plus An Overtired Single Mum

Gorgeous Palm Springs and an overtired single Mum We leave San Diego mid-afternoon for our next family travel journey and decide to drive to Palm Springs. We arrive and it is just starting to get dark. We have no idea Gay Pride Festival is on this weekend, so most reasonable hotels are booked out. Luxury […]

SeaWorld San Diego For Kids

SeaWorld San Diego For Kids We are having a great time on our new adventure – a road trip through California and into neighboring states.  I am glad we have a pass to access SeaWorld San Diego. This is part of a City Pass we purchased for Disneyland. This is nice since park entry is about […]

Legoland And Our Road Trip Through San Diego Begins

Legoland, San Diego We have just had the most delightful few days in Los Angeles and the family we stayed with has 2 Mums and 2 kids as it was a chance for us to share our lives as they shared their home before our road trip through San Diego began. For my son, it […]

California Adventure Park Is Awesome

California Adventure Park Luxury travel experts advise: Disney land is a very busy place. While on a family travel in California, we advise you get here as early as you can to beat the queues. By doing this, we figured out that our single parent travel would be more interesting, allowing us more time to […]

Last days at Savusavu Island Fiji

Last days at Savusavu, Fiji The last two days at Savusavu, Fiji have been just wonderful. Over the last couple of weeks, we have made friends with ‘Dave’ and ‘Aoife’ from Ireland. ‘Dave’ is training for a triathlon in Canada and is super fit. So he kindly takes my son out so I can catch […]

Faces of Tacilevu – Savusavu Island Fiji

Faces of Tacilevu – Fiji Here are some of the new friends we got to know in the village of Tacilevu. They are the Faces of Tacilevu – Fiji. I love these photos, regardless of the fact that I am only using a small instant camera.  I, however, understand that I will need to get a […]

Random Acts Of Kindness In Fiji

Tacilevu Village receives donated goods Thank you to all who helped donate! It is Saturday and it has been raining for days here on Savusavu Island but its time for our first major Random Acts Of Kindness. Over the past two weeks, we have been receiving monetary donations to help a village about 40 km […]

What is a Lovo ?

A day on a Fiji farm for a 7-year-old Australian boy We are awake at 5:30 a.m. on the island of Savusavu Fiji to catch the early bus to the foothills. Our friends ‘Marylyn’ and ‘Dave’ (50/50 Australian & Fijian) own rural property. Their caretaker ‘Julian’ and his sweet wife ‘Lele’ are organizing a ‘Lovo’. Now a ‘Lovo’ […]

Hidden Naselesele Waterfall on Savusavu Island Fiji

Hidden Naselesele Waterfall (on the road to Bua) We are house sitting on the island of Savusavu in Fiji, n Sunday we decided to ‘find a waterfall’, so we hopped into the hire car – that we hired thanks to the knowledge of  some luxury travel experts in the region – and headed through the […]