Summertime Treats

[Carlos del Vaca]

I've cooking on the grill damn near every night.  I cooked up a batch of Korean-style beef ribs last weekend, which are pretty much a summer requirement, as are traditional pork ribs with a rub and some sauce.  I also have to make corn-okra-tomato pile-up every summer (I don't make it as often as I'd like since the missus is allergic to corn).

Drink-wise, I love me some caipirinhas in the summer.

[Nabubrush]

Damn right I would. All y'all need to organise a road/sea/sky trip and come see what's going on down here.

I can't promise anyone else, but I'm going to look into this. I promise I won't expect you to put us up for a week or anything. How far are you from Sydney?

[Doc]

Google maps tells me 1,420 kilometres away, so, y'know, decently far.
That said I'd recommend you go to Sydney over Brisbane (which isn't where I'm living right now in any case but should be by the end of the year) there's more stuff around there. Brisbane is a cool place to live but really just a stop-over on your way up to the cool stuff in north queensland.
If you're going to come to Queensland you should probably go to Cairns, which is a bit of a bullshit little town but it's the place to go if you want to visit the Reef. And if you come to QLD and don't want to visit the reef then, I'm sorry, but I don't know you (shameful secret: I lived in North queensland as a child and have visited more than once as an adult and never gone scuba diving on the reef, never even went snorkelling till recently).

That said it all depends on what you're wanting to do, there's lots of cool stuff in Aus but a good deal of distance between it all so you've got to plan shit out. I've got mates who live in Sydney so if you're wanting info on something feel free to drop a line. And of course let me know when you're coming anyway. a trans-continental TOUAMBie meet up might just be worth the trip.

[Nabubrush]

Looks like 1500 of our "miles" from Sydney to Cairns. We'd probably only go for like ten days, because it's a pain to take extra time off. I don't think I would want to do that much driving in that short amount of time in country. It's about 1050 mi from Brisbane to Cairns. I would like to see the reef while we would be there - that would be cool. I will talk it over with the missus and cogitate.

[Doc]

Oh yeah, if you're spending a holiday in Aus you sure as hell don't want to drive anywhere. You'll waste way too much time. If you book far enough ahead cheap airline flights are comparable to what you'll pay in fuel anyway.

Random list of things to see in Australia off the top of my head:
The Daintree
Kakadu
Lake Eyre
Great Barrier Reef

That's if your into out-doorsy stuff though and the issue is that most of that stuff is a fair hike from any decent cities. If you want to hang out in another city then you'll want to go to Sydney or Melbourne, I like Melbourne more myself (they have fairy penguins and cooler night life) but you're probably going to want to get a tourist shot with the opera house and so that would mean Sydney. The weather and the beaches are better there anyway. Also, it's cheesy as hell and I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I can confirm that Uluru at sunset or sunrise is just fuck*ng magical.

End tourism department pimping.

[wombat]

I like Melbourne more myself (they have fairy penguins and cooler night life)

Now that's what I call a convincing sales pitch.

[pmcd9]

Before you plan your itinerary you must watch Billy Connolly's World Tour of Australia.