So, I'll be updating that blog for the rest of this trip. Click here to be transported to that blog.
This blog will not be updated.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
THIS BLOG HAS MOVED
I had a blog for my last trip to Australia in 2006 using the URL http://rvinaustralia.blogspot.com/ and created this new blog for this trip. Neil wondered why I just didn't use the old blog since I had a nice generic URL for it. For some reason, I didn't think of that and decided it made complete sense to simply restart that blog.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Australia - New Zeland 2012
So, here we are almost exactly six years after my last trip to Australia (documented in this blog) preparing for my next trip to the continent. This time, I have Sheila and Jay who have their own blogs here and here tagging along for the fun.
Despite the URL for this blog, the main objective of the trip is to go to Queenstown, New Zealand for the 2012 Asia-Pacific ACR Conference. I'll be presenting a paper on gender differences in the processing of price information in advertisements and decided to combine it with a few days in Melbourne and Sydney. Although I have visited both cities more than once and would preferred to have headed to the west coast or up the northern coast this time, I felt that Sheila and Jay should experience the great cities of Melbourne and Sydney on their first visit to the continent.
I must be one of the very few people from Duluth who is actually leaving our summer here to head to more winter weather. But, the way this "summer" has been rainy and cloudy, the snow may make for a pleasant change.
Our plan is to fly in to Sydney, spend a day there recovering from jet lag and then fly the next day to Christchurch. We only have a day in Christchurch before we rent a car and drive to Queenstown, stopping for a night at Lake Tekapo on the way. Hopefully the snowfall won't delay us going through the mountains. This is supposed to be one of the most spectacularly beautiful drives in the world (even in the winter, I'm assured) and I'm looking forward to it.
This is my first trip to the South Island and I really should be watching Lord of the Rings again to prepare. But that may have to wait given how much stuff there is to do before our departure next Saturday.
Despite the URL for this blog, the main objective of the trip is to go to Queenstown, New Zealand for the 2012 Asia-Pacific ACR Conference. I'll be presenting a paper on gender differences in the processing of price information in advertisements and decided to combine it with a few days in Melbourne and Sydney. Although I have visited both cities more than once and would preferred to have headed to the west coast or up the northern coast this time, I felt that Sheila and Jay should experience the great cities of Melbourne and Sydney on their first visit to the continent.
I must be one of the very few people from Duluth who is actually leaving our summer here to head to more winter weather. But, the way this "summer" has been rainy and cloudy, the snow may make for a pleasant change.
This is my first trip to the South Island and I really should be watching Lord of the Rings again to prepare. But that may have to wait given how much stuff there is to do before our departure next Saturday.
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