Trip Blog

susangususangu
in General Discussion
We returned last Saturday from the Grand Australia/New Zealand trip and it was fantastic! For my trip diary, I decided to try writing a blog. I wrote almost every day about the day's adventures and posted pictures. It was a learning process for me, and it got easier as time went on. I learned to write a draft note on my iPhone on busses, boats and planes and complete the post when I returned to wi-fi at the hotel. I thought that others who will be going on a Tauck tour might like to also try their hand at creating a blog. So if you're going to Australia and New Zealand and would like to see what's in store, or if you just want to check out my blog, you will find it at--http://followusdownunder.wordpress.com. Just type the address into Google or at the top of your browser it will take you there. I'd love to follow the travels of others and get inspiration for our next trip!

Comments

  • RichardbRichardb
    Excellent! Well done Susan. We did the tour from England last October and your blog has brought back so many memories. I shall read it again much more thoroughly.............but thanks!
    Richard
  • AlanSAlanS
    youdontknowme wrote:
    (spam?)

    I don't think we want to know you if you are just a SPAMMER and don't have information or questions for Tauck travellers.
  • jdurkinjdurkin
    I think I prefer the Ray Charles version of You Don't Know Me, Alan. ;)

    Cheers,

    Jan
  • AlanSAlanS
    edited April 2014
    : -) I sure wish this site would allow emoticons! I guess I could use a jpeg this:
    rotflm.gif

    Is it just me, or have the number of spammers increased this year? This year I have see more people attempting to hawk other travel services, trying to post in English, or just seeing if they can post on this US website.
  • jdurkinjdurkin
    ;)

    I don't know about the spammer thing, Alan. I do know that the moderators often nab their posts before we see them. Sometimes they just follow our pointed barbs till they find the offending post. And while this is a US hosted web page, I mostly view and post from Australia. But I've also kept up with the jottings from all sorts of interesting places around the world, even from deep into the Southern Ocean. (Everyone knows where that is now … courtsey of the terrible Malaysian plane mystery.) So while some spam is sooo obvious, I have seen posts that, well … although they do test the credibility and the syntax is such that it hints at a non-English as a first language speaker … you can be fooled. And then sometimes it's just the attitude that gives the game away. My interest is always pricked at the sense of entitlement some people display. I always wonder why they think we'd be interested in their …. Acme, One Click, Idiot Launcher. Haven't they done any demographic research?

    Cheers,

    Jan
  • AlanSAlanS
    jdurkin wrote:
    ;)
    But I've also kept up with the jottings from all sorts of interesting places around the world, even from deep into the Southern Ocean. (Everyone knows where that is now … courtsey of the terrible Malaysian plane mystery.)
    Cheers,

    Jan

    I learned about the Southern Ocean a few years ago from the two teenage young ladies who blogged during their attempted solo sailing circumnavigations of the world - Jessica Watson, the Aussie who made it and Abby Sunderland, the American whose boat was rolled and dis-masted and had to be rescued in the middle of nowhere, a bit north of desolate Kerguelen Is. I lived vicariously through their exciting journeys.
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