Mocking Bird l Vancouver Film Photographer » North America http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog Vancouver Photography blog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Thing About The Northern Hemisphere… http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/2009/11/27/the-thing-about-the-northern-hemisphere/ http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/2009/11/27/the-thing-about-the-northern-hemisphere/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:08:09 +0000 Amanda http://www.mocking-bird.org/blog/?p=791
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    I s that travel is so accessible and easy. Most of you Northern Hemispherians would not realise what kind of ridiculous ordeal it is to get on a plane and go anywhere from Australia. Try 26 hours to Dublin from Sydney.

    Living in Australia or New Zealand means a life devoted to travel needs to be sporadic and worthwhile. We don’t just fly to New York for the weekend, we don’t do a few days in Paris, we don’t even do a week. For us, travel is a big thing, full of as many country stamps in our passports as possible and 18 month hauls in Europe.

    In Australia it can take us 2 days to drive to the nearest major city and there isn’t much to see along the way. We are surrounded by sea and even though it’s massive, I call an island my home.

    So for me, having a border to another country just 5 minutes down the road BAFFLES my mind. The fact that I can drive on a road that is Canada on one side and America on the other does my head in.

    Imagine not being able to talk to your neighbours because they live in another country? Search lights will beam down when your tennis ball goes into someone’s yard. Border guards will shoot you down if you try to take some chocolate chip muffins across the street. How does the Christmas street party work? Do they throw sausages and beer to each other across the border? Do they use megaphones to swap eggnog recipes?

    As an Australian who loves to travel, having all these fabulous travel destinations so close by is too tempting. I have about 6 different trips planned already, none of which are likely to happen until I get a real job. The dream list is as follows:

    • Seattle for lots of shopping and catching up with friends.
    • Christmas in New York (swing by relatives in Boston)
    • Paris in the summer with a dash of Spain, Italy and maybe Switzerland.
    • Japan, oh Japan.
    • Banff
    • San Francisco
    • Edmonton for my birthday with a road trip through The Rockies.
    • Montreal
    • UK and Ireland

    Instead of always dreaming, we just booked the cheapest flights to Honolulu for January! It will be my 4th real trip to Hawaii and I am beaming at the thought of sunshine and POG juice, plumerias and Maui chips.

    What are your travel dreams?

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