Love Ridge

... our road. Through this blog we can share each other's laughs and sadnesses as we learn our lessons in this weird and wonderful life. Enjoy our accounts as we travel the road to 'there and back again'! love and hugs from Jodie, Andy and Maudie

4 Days in Lightning Ridge - this place really has a buzz about it. Cool in the evenings but t-shirt weather by noon. You forget that it is currently the middle of winter, it is so warm. However, the humidity during summer can be a killer according to the ...

... Sidra, the Realtor we used in April when we were checking out TN properties. She said there were homes on Lake Blue Ridge she wanted to show us. We love the idea of being so close to Sass and Louise. The houses ended up being right on top of each ...

... on first class, it was great!) through pretty country side to Dubbo, once there we changed to a bus for 4 hours to Lightning Ridge. This is a small mining town and has one main street really...we walked single file with our luggage to the hotel which was ...

Day 3 Blue Ridge Parkway 316 to 229.7+ Sparta NC Broke camp and started out again on BRP by 10:00 am. Drizzle, 67 degrees and fog. We saw a loose rooster crossing the road which reminded us of some chicken jokes. 25-30 mph due to HEAVY FOG. ...

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... till we were out of breath. The water was a tiny chilly for Louise and Sass but to us it was heaven! We fell in love with Lake Blue Ridge. It is the lake you can see from Louise and Sass's house. It is a jewel in the mountains. We played for a few ...

... can really do...with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.  We enjoyed a couple of movies over a few days fun and frolic before the rains began.  Rain expected for a week.....Crazy Fish wants to travel on .........love to all our Blue Ridge ...

Headed off to the Ridge to spend time with my parents and generally pass the time until Tamworth. Mum celebrated her 50th birthday on the 17th, and the whole family made it which was amazing.  Much revelry was had by all, the champagne flowed ...

... far.  Back to pick up Carl and head back to town to check out the John Murray Art Gallery – it was fantastic – I love his paintings – very good but also with a great sense of humour – very Australian! I bought a print of a ...

... for its opal mining, and most notably, for being the world's sole producer of black opals which are found only in Lightening Ridge, just a mere 2 days drive northwest of Sydney. Thanks to Glenda and Tim’s travel advice, we found a destination for ...

... the wine country in the morning mist – but not for long as a I was soon climbing the hills up the Sugar Loaf Ridge state park.  Completing my honours system parking ticket I spent and age putting on my boots and scoping out the hill; to be ...

... .  However, life continues to move on and I'm ready to move on with it. I decided to go back to Perth because I fell in love with the city and country.  I also fell in love with a boy.  But more than just my feelings for the location and ...

... to get my last IV treatment on Monday and then I'm good to go, too.  The anticipation is just too much - I know I'm going to love this, but still a bit scared that I won't - cabin fever, too much "dog time," etc.  As soon as the leprechauns ...

... for ice cream. But it wasn't about nostalgia, there was no idle moments lost in the past, it was about how very much I still love this place and how if you look at it with the right perspective, in the right light and with just the right mood, it's so ...

... cage like you se on TV with the great whites swimming around you! Fabulous! Alright guys-lease keep the e-mails coming and I would love some mail (hand-written letters) if you can. Again-there is nothing like receiving mail here. Thank you mom for the ...

... to fill you in on the last few stops another time!! Hope you're all well, and we miss you all lots. lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Part 2) I'm back!! So where were we, Vancouver. Yeah, really liked it here-and guess what.it rained! But luckily not on ...

... , red, and brown. I guess the most recent news is that i have decided to leave GGA one month early and backpack down the coast. I love what I am doing and will miss the children terribly, but I really want to do some more traveling while I am here-and am ...

... have enough to get me by. I'll write again soon-I really want to crash while I have free time! I just arrived an hour ago, so I don't have all the details for you-but I'll write soon and fill you in on my duties/experiences:) Love and miss you ...

... . Today, we drove up to Blue Ridge, which is just the quaintest little town I've seen in awhile. I didn't ride the Blue Ridge railway (which I would love to do, but its a 4 hour hour ordeal, and we didn't really want to commit to that long of a ride with ...

... that what I study is very interesting as well. We finally rounded a bend where we could finally see why it's called the Sringalila Ridge Trek.  We were very obviously on a ridge, and could see the line of towns that we were to hike to for the ...