The Magical Whisky Tour Goes Fo(u)rth

Its been a few years since I posted to this account. I can see reading back that quite a few things have changed in my life. When I kicked this off 13 years ago I had just buried my mother, divorced my first wife (there is a trend developing I fear) and got to my weight down to 100kg from the ever so chunky 150kg. I was heavily into my geek life building computers, playing keys in a couple of bands, working with a couple of singers and doing a bit of studio work. Come 2025 I find myself in Lightning Ridge, divorced again (I will be getting good at it soon), and now I'm chunkier than ever. 

Its been an intense couple of years where I have kicked some goals professionally, hopefully made some serious strides towards improving my superannuation. It seems the clock keeps ticking and you have to plan for that stuff now (who knew?) Also help set up the Club I am proud to manage for a long and prosperous future. 

 

So in celebration of my newly won singledom, to pat myself on the back for a few solid years of work and to hopefully de stress after a few hectic years I'm off again. This time I head to Honolulu for a few days where I will check out all the Pearl Harbour war memorabilia, visit a Dinosaur Museum and then kick on to New York where I will catch up with a buddy from Australia conducting his own odyssey through the good ol' US of A. After New York the seven seas are calling and I will embark on a 33 day cruising adventure.

After leaving New York it is on to Miami, Cartagena, Colombia. From there we traverse the Panama Canal and on to Peru where we stop at two ports of Lima and San Martin. From there we head to Easter Island where there is a small chance we will get to go ashore. Then we head to Pitcairn Island, home of the Bounty mutineers. We stop at two ports in French Polynesia, Papeete and Moorea, then across the international date line and stop in Auckland, New Zealand. From there its back to Sydney and the oh so short drive to "The Ridge".