Blogiversary! 20 Years!

 

It's 20 years today since I made my first blog post on this blog. It was for the CQ 4x4 Christmas Party Chris & Darryl's Trips: 4X4 Club Xmas Party in 2004.

Up until this post there have been 600, and we have enjoyed some amazing events, parties, and travels. 

We have travelled to overseas to New Zealand (3 trips), Canada (3 trips including the Rocky Mountains, Calgary, and Vancouver, as well as Montreal, Quebec City & Toronto), USA (including Alaska, Hawaii, Seattle), China and Japan, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Greece & Spain, Singapore & Thailand.

In Queensland we have gone all over South-east Queensland, North Queensland (several trips), Western Queensland & Central Queensland, including: Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Toowoomba, Winton, Cania Gorge, Isla Gorge,  Byfield, Charters Towers, Mt Bartle Frere (highest mountain in Queensland), Ingham, Paluma, Eurimbla, Blackdown (at least twice), Goodedulla, Bulburin, Lawn Hill, Pocupine Gorge,  Lamington, D'Aguilar, Dawes & Kroombit National Parks, Keppel Island, Glassford, Benaraby, Mount Jacob & Mt Morgan Goldmines, Mt Etna, Bunya Mountains, Girraween, Elliott Heads, Mount Perry, Hervey Bay, the Sunshine Coast, & Cape York

New South Wales to Sydney, National Parks including the Blue Mountains, Waterfall Way, the Warrumbungles, Orange, Adelong, Carcoar, Cootamundra, Hill End, Mt Kosciusko.

Victoria to Melbourn, the Gold-mining areas in Victoria of Beechworth, Bendigo and Ballarat, the Great Ocean Road, Mt Macdeon, the Grampians, Walhalla and the Alpine National Park.

The Northern Territory (2 trips) to Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine & Kakadu, Nitmiluk and Litchfield National Parks, Wolf Creek Crater.

Northern Western Australia with Kununurra, Broome, Mataranka and the Bungle Bungles

Tasmania including Hobart, Bruny Island, Salamanca Markets, Sydney to Hobart Yacht race finish, Cradle Mountain, Mole Creek and the west coast.

This map shows just a little of where we've been in Australia & New Zealand.

I have documented family & friends' events with births, deaths & birthdays, concerts (Status Quo & Deep Purple), engagements, reunions, work and Christmas Parties, social events, bushwalks, floods (Rockhampton 2008) and cyclones (Marcia which hit Rockhampton in 2015).

I have about 40 draft post that I'm working on, and there's plenty more travels coming. I'm also working on fixing up the photos in some posts that have disappeared. So, there's more to come. 

The 20 graphic was created by AI - Microsoft Co-pilot, the map is from my Google timeline.