We began our Great Ocean Road adventure in Melbourne, where we had booked a rental car from Melbourne to Adelaide for six days through rentalcars.com. I am sometimes weary of booking rental cars through online third party agencies, but was very happy when I found out that our rental was being provided by Thrifty’s. We took …

To see the West MacDonnell Range and West MacDonnell National Park, Sara and I booked an Emu Run day tour for $110 each. A map of the stops along the tour is shown below:

My second trip to Australia began in Alice Springs after narrowly catching my connecting flight from Melbourne. I had taken the direct flight from Dubai to Melbourne, which was over 14 hours long, and was unable to sleep the entire way. I made it through customs in Melbourne without a problem but fell asleep while …