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  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thursday, June 10, 2010

This is a long overdue blog of this trip. The trip is named Australia, New Zealand and Fiji and is provided by Grand Circle Travel (GCT). As you can see, the trip was almost 2 years ago. I will be providing links to as many vendors, including hotels and attractions as I can. I will also be providing links to Google Maps and GPS coordinates to be used in Google Earth. The base trip starts in Cairns and ends in Fiji, but we have chosen to take a pre-trip extension, starting in Melbourne and includes the outback and  a post-trip extension of a cruise in Fiji. I will attempt to be as objective as possible about the trip and and all activities. The trip includes stays in Melbourne, Alice Springs, Uluru, Cairns, Sydney, Christchurch, Queenstown, Aukland and Fiji, as well as the MV Reef Endeavour.

I would appreciate feedback on my heavy use of web links, Google Maps links and GPS coordinates. Do they add to the to the blog, or detract from it? Are there too many or too little (which I doubt), etc? As this is my first blog, hopefully, of many, I would like to get a format that is useful to most, that I can follow. Are the number of photos about right? I intend to use brief video clips on future trips as well.

I have past trips to Egypt, Europe, Russia, China, Israel & Jordan, Africa, Thailand and the US, that go back over 10 years, that I intend to write up. The detail will depend on my recollection.

I have a trip to France in a few weeks that stimulated me to do write this.

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