Australia and New Zealand 2019-2020
Australia and New Zealand 2019-2020 This trip started with the world at the old-normal and ended as a new-normal. During our last month in New Zealand, March, the Corona-Virus 19 became only topic of news throughout the world. But let me start at the old-normal in November, 2019. 11/27/2019, the day before Thanksgiving we left our home in Alamosa, Colorado via bus to Denver, Colorado, train out to the airport and on to San Francisco airport, Auckland airport and finally Perth, Western Australia airport. Suddenly it is 11/29/2019 and we lost Thanksgiving. Perth, located on the SouthWestern edge of the continent is the only substantial city on that edge. It is as if San Francisco existed but LA, Portland and Seattle did not. But it is still 4 time zones away from the Eastern Edge of Australia. At any rate, it is big enough to have good public transportation an...