Trip to Australia

In April 2000, the spring after Emlyn died, Geneva's parents were on sabbatical in Perth, Western Australia. At their invitation, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity to see a bit of a part of the world we're not likely to get to very often.

We flew via London and Singapore, taking about 30 hours to do it. Corwin was a real trooper for the entire trip, but especially for the long airplane ride. We arrived to find a very different continent from our own, and we were ably guided around this little piece of it by Judy and Eldridge, who had already done a bit of exploring themselves. They were able to tell us a great deal about the unusual flora and fauna (and the flora were just as unusual as the more famous fauna). It was only a very small part of a continent as large as the continental United States, and we hope to go back and see more of it. Sometime.