On my first cruise ever last year (to Alaska from Vancouver) I wound up having a good time with two gals from Sydney. Oddly enough, I wound up talking with a couple from Sydney last week in the line for the Craig Ferguson show in LA.
The conversations in all 4 cases have put a little possibility in the back of my mind regarding visiting Australia.
Coincidentally, that LA stop was part of a 10 day Southern California road trip that saw me seeking out (among other things, including hang gliding!) the Skyline Trail trailhead (Cactus to Clouds) in Palm Springs, just to see it and consider yet another possibility! Somewhat intimidating -- both the obviously steep first portions of the trail as well as the grandeur of the mountain (San Jacinto) itself. Quite an impressive hunk of rock (what else with 10,000 plus feet of elevation change, with the slopes hitting Palm Springs itself?).
Steve, you "followed" me with my Grand Canyon rim to rim . . . have you ever done the Skyline Trail?
