It was a lot of work to try to get everything organized so the chores would be less work for John, who volunteered to do chores for us so we could go. Our neighbour, Leon, also said he would help out.

The day before we headed south, Gregory discovered one of our broodmares had slipped her foal. Thanks to the warm-up it had become quite slippery in places and she more than likely fell down. It was quite sad and upsetting but there was nothing that we could do, so we continued with packing and preparations.

On Feb. 1 we loaded up the kids and headed south. It took us 13 ½ hours to drive to Salmon, Idaho. I packed sandwiches and lots of snacks, so we only stopped for fuel and potty breaks. We arrived at my mom and dad’s house at around 9:30 p.m.

We were able to visit with quite a few friends and family, including my parents and my brother, my Grandma Heather and Grandpa Lynn, my Aunt Andrea, a few of my cousins, and my Great Aunt Jenelle.

We made a special trip further south to Arco, Idaho to see my Grandma Allen and Uncle Mike. My good friend Michelle drove over from Missoula to see us and we had a good visit with her parents as well. Everyone enjoyed meeting Anna for the first time and they had fun getting to know Ian a little better. He was only eight months old the last time they had seen him. He was much bigger, much more mobile, and quite interactive on this visit.

My brother Nick was able to take Joseph and James on some adventures hiking around the hills behind Mom and Dad’s house. The boys had a blast. They greatly enjoyed the different terrain.

On Feb. 6 we drove to Grandma Allen’s in Arco. Grandma enjoyed meeting Anna and Uncle Mike enjoyed taking the boys on quad rides to push the snow out of Grandma’s driveway. In no time, five hours slipped away on us and we needed to start heading home.

From Arco we traveled to Helena, where we spent the night. It had started storming on our drive to Helena and continued through the night into the next day. The next morning, we carefully continued our journey home on slippery roads and arrived home later that evening.

The next day we were out on the road again, taking Anna to her baby checkup in North Battleford. Thankfully John and Barb were able to watch the boys so they did not have to be in the vehicle again. Barb had her cataract surgery the day before and was sore, but had missed her boys while they were gone.

Barb had a second cataract surgery on Feb. 14. She was quite sore after this surgery and healing will take some time.

First calf

On Saturday (Feb. 24) we set out on the road again to do some more visiting with family. We went to visit Gregory’s Great Uncle Joe and Aunt Betty. Aunt Betty made Anna a beautiful quilt when she was born. Due to the weather and some health concerns, Aunt Betty and Uncle Joe were not going to be able to come and see us to meet Anna, so we decided to make a very quick trip to see them.

The weather was looking like it was about to turn very cold toward the beginning of the week and there was a good chance of a snowstorm. Calving had started Feb. 23, with a healthy heifer calf. Crossing our fingers that there would not be more calves over the weekend for John to try to take care of, we packed up the family and traveled to Edmonton.

We arrived around 12:30 p.m. We had a good visit and Aunt Betty and Uncle Joe enjoyed the boys and little Anna. We left around 3 p.m. the next day. It had started snowing just before we left and continued through most of the drive home. We arrived home around 8 p.m. and the storm got worse. Through the night it turned into a blizzard and the temperatures dropped.

We were very happy that we were able to do so much visiting in February. It was more travelling and visiting than we have ever done as a family. Both of our trips were almost perfectly planned around the weather and calving.

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“I hope you get caught. Maybe that will slow you down before you have an accident,” he often said.

Now that she had her own beautiful, red Toyota, she could drive as she wished, she thought.

Although tired, she was pleased to drive Peter, her cousin, and his friend Scott 120 miles to the farm. Later, she was able to grab a few hours’ sleep because Scott and Peter were outdoors with her father. She could not imagine how her father was entertaining them, coming as they had, straight from Expo ’86 in Vancouver.

What would interest them on a farm without livestock or pets? There were only noisy tractors that smelled of dust, grease and diesel fumes, and grasshoppers that banged on the windshield like hail everywhere you drove. You also had to survey the ground carefully for snakes before getting out of your vehicle.

Peter and Scott had flown from England, where they lived, to Los Angeles, and then to Vancouver for Expo. They had arrived the week before in Regina.

Her mom was having trouble adjusting her menus to the boys’ enormous appetites. And their egos were as big as their stomachs. They soon made it known they had both received scholarships from Manchester University and asked how her mom, after living in London, could “live in a town like this?”

Kerry’s father had gone out to the farm early that morning. Kerry and the boys followed later. Now they were on their way back to Regina, where her mom had invited them out for supper. The next morning, Peter and Scott would take the bus to Toronto and then to Boston to catch their flights back to England.

They were halfway to Regina when they stopped for fuel and to clean the grasshopper porridge off the windshield. Driving on the excellent, two-lane highway at 120 clicks, she thought they should be home, in Regina, in 45 minutes. As it panned out, it took more than three hours.

Suddenly, from the approaching stream of traffic, a car executed a neat U-turn and followed Kerry, its red flashers indicating the police wanted her to pull over.

“Fasten your seatbelts,” she hissed, as she seethed at the thought of her father’s satisfaction if he found out she’d been given a speeding ticket.

Watching the outside mirror, she noted the RCMP officer approaching.

“Hallo,” he said in a friendly manner. “You’re Kerry, aren’t you?”

“Huh?” asked Kerry, for once, completely at a loss for words.

“Do you have two English people with you?” asked the tall officer, bending down to peer into the back seat. Kerry was getting more tense by the second. Now that he had her for speeding, was he looking for drugs as well? Were Peter and Scott in the country illegally?

“Yes,” she said, her voice barely above a whisper.

“Well, you have to go back to your dad’s farm for Scott’s passport.”

“What?” asked Kerry.

“Your father phoned your mother, and she called us to intercept you because you must return to the farm,” said the officer.

“If you want, you can come over to the cruiser and hear the message,” he said.

In the cruiser, the officer called his dispatcher.

“I’ve found Kerry. Would you repeat the message to her?”

The dispatcher explained her father noticed a backpack left at the farm. It contained, among other things, Scott’s wallet with his money, traveller’s cheques and, most importantly, his passport. Her father had called her mother. He didn’t have time to bring the backpack to Regina. If Scott was so intelligent, he could look after his own affairs. Her mother eventually called the RCMP to see if they could help. All she could tell them about Kerry’s car was that it was a red Toyota Celica.

Kerry thanked the officer, grateful that he let her off with only a warning for speeding.

“You’ve had enough trouble for one night,” he said, “and still have almost 200 miles to drive.”

About two weeks later, Kerry learned her dad, too, had an opportunity to thank the pleasant officer who stopped her — the officer had awarded her dad with a $60 speeding ticket!

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Antigen tests are cheaper than a molecular test and can provide results within minutes.

The new measures, which include random testing for vaccinated travelers entering Canada, were announced by federal government ministers at a briefing.

Canada will monitor conditions with an eye on dropping coronavirus testing requirements for fully vaccinated Canadians who make short trips — less than 72 hours — abroad, usually to the U.S., Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said.

“These changes are possible not only because we have passed the peak of Omicron, but because Canadians across the country have listened to the science and to experts,” Duclos told reporters.

About 80 per cent of Canadians are fully vaccinated and over 40 per cent have also taken a booster dose, according to the health ministry.

The global travel advisory for Canadians is also being changed. Previously the government recommended against all non-essential travel, and now it is only urging citizens to take precautions.

“Though today’s announcement brings us one step closer to where our industry needs to be, in requiring pre-departure rapid antigen tests, the government missed an opportunity to align with other international jurisdictions that removed pre-departure test requirements for fully vaccinated travellers,” the Canadian Travel and Tourism Roundtable industry group said in a statement.

Several provinces, including Quebec, Ontario and the three Prairie provinces, have announced relaxations of restrictions imposed during the pandemic as coronavirus infection rates fall.

Ontario said it will speed up its plan to remove proof-of-vaccination requirements and lift pandemic-related capacity limits for many businesses, while Alberta ended its mask requirements for school children on Monday.

Protesters have blocked border crossings and paralyzed the centre of Ottawa for weeks asking for governments to roll back pandemic restrictions. Provincial premiers have denied loosening restrictions to appease them, saying instead that the limits are no longer needed to contain COVID-19.

— Reporting for Reuters by Steve Scherer in Ottawa, Ismail Shakil in Bangalore and Allison Lampert in Montreal.

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Representative Brian Higgins, a Democrat representing a district along the Canadian border, said: “You can’t on the one hand talk about the importance of vaccines and ignore the fact that people that are fully vaccinated could not cross the border.”

The restrictions harmed border economies. Higgins noted both professional sports teams in Buffalo rely on Canadian fans and 30 per cent of Buffalo airport users historically are Canadians.

He told reporters “I think it was the pressure” that prodded the White House to finally act.

The White House did not immediately comment on his remarks.

The White House said late on Tuesday it would lift restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign nationals at the land borders in early November, ending curbs on non-essential travelers in place since March 2020.

A growing number of U.S. lawmakers had questioned why the White House had announced on Sept. 20 it would lift restrictions for fully vaccinated international air travelers in early November and yet upheld restrictions for land border travel to the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.

A precise date in early November when the restrictions will be lifted on both land and air travel will be announced “very soon,” an official said.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair welcomed the news.

“Today’s announcement is one more step toward returning to normal,” Blair said, noting that from Oct. 30 Canadians will need to be fully vaccinated to travel within Canada by plane and various trains.

U.S. Travel Association president Roger Dow welcomed the news, saying declines in international visitation since the start of the pandemic “have resulted in more than $250 billion in lost export income and more than a million U.S. jobs [all figures US$]. The closed Canadian and Mexican land borders alone costs the U.S. economy nearly $700 million per month.”

Canada on Aug. 9 began allowing fully vaccinated U.S. visitors for non-essential travel.

— Reporting for Reuters by David Shepardson; additional reporting by David Ljunggren.

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This column isn’t about that, though. It’s about the community of Souris, Man., and the surreal/great experience my wife and I had there.

My wife, Jamie, and I were on a junior road trip. A colleague of mine at Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers asked if I’d consider meeting her at a crop research trial site a few miles east of Souris to snap some photos and take some drone footage.

I said “yes” before I finished reading the email request: A, I enjoy flying my drone; and B, I needed to get out of the house before cabin fever finished making scrambled eggs of my brain. I’m fine, by the way. But I did welcome the excuse to get out and do something work related.

I packed my camera, my drone and was excited to try out some new gear I had purchased since I was last commissioned for such services. Jamie had time and agreed to join me. We would make a fun trip out of it. The two of us really do enjoy exploring the nooks and crannies of Manitoba.

We arrive. Exchange some long-time-no-sees and then I begin unpacking my gear, splaying it out on my endgate like I know what I’m doing.

The new gear (a new, longer cable connecting my phone to the drone remote) didn’t work, so, after hours of troubleshooting and attempting to Google this issue with virtually zero bars of service, I discovered a workaround.

The crops represented by this particular series of plots looked unusually healthy. Souris is about two hours directly west of my farm. Not too far, in other words. I expected to see soybeans that looked dwarfed and parched, like ours did.

This was not the case. Instead, I was forced to confront an accurate representation of what healthy soybeans should look like at this time of year. They should be about four feet tall, bushy and bursting with pods. So, not 14 inches tall, the opposite of bushy and struggling to stay alive amid the crippling heat and drought.

We got the shots of these beautiful test plots and put them onto a flash drive, which we handed over to my colleague. We were then told that if we were to make it to the Souris bakery before it closed, we’d have to make haste.

And this bakery came highly recommended.

As we neared this mythical land called Souris, we started to get a quaint vibe, in a good way. I know you know what I am talking about when I say, “vibe.” The impressions we were receiving from what we could see on either side of the highway were positive and our decision to visit the town over heading home was fast becoming vindicated.

The topography started to become what I would describe as rolling and forested. The namesake river that runs through the town is a feature the community is proud of and has invested in. There were walkways, a park and tourist-oriented infrastructure built around the relatively wide (for Manitoba) river. There is a sizeable swinging bridge spanning its shores.

We arrived at the bakery before it closed. We bought a loaf of cheese bread and two sandwiches for the ride home. The friendly woman taking our order recommended we walk around the corner to Forty-Nine Degrees Coffee and Ice Cream. We did. It was fantastic.

All the while, we’re taking in the cozy restaurants, artisanal shops and the kind of wide streets you’d find in small, touristy towns.

We decided to walk around a bit with our coffees. It is at this point when our time in Souris took a strange turn.

At the edge of my peripheral vision, to the left, I could see something blocking traffic. Jamie and I were crossing a main street on our way to traverse the swinging bridge.

If that would have been the only glimpse I had of the thing and I was chatting with, say, a police sketch artist, I would have described something that looked like a peacock.

I looked again. Certainly, it couldn’t be a peacock.

It was a full-on, living and free male peacock. Judging by how the traffic was avoiding it and stopping for it, I guessed this peacock was something people knew about and were quite used to accommodating.

Then I saw another one. This one was on the meridian, poking around in some community-planted flower garden. Then another. Then another.

In case you are not following, Souris is a small town in southwestern Manitoba. It is not where one would ever expect to see peacocks roaming free.

I saw a woman walking with two children and approached, trying very hard to hide my nervous excitement/bewilderment, as I didn’t know how that would present to a stranger.

She affirmed they were, indeed, peacocks and they do roam free in Souris all summer. Apparently, they are a remnant of a bird sanctuary that used to operate in the area. They either were freed or freed themselves at one point in time, and now have become permanent and welcome residents of Souris.

They are taken in for winter and released in summer.

I’m not sure we could have digested any more adventure, so we drove home, and we tell everyone we meet about the peacocks of Souris and just how gorgeous of a community it is.

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Canada on Aug. 9 began allowing fully vaccinated U.S. visitors for nonessential travel. The United States has continued to extend the extraordinary restrictions on Canada and Mexico on a monthly basis since March 2020, when they were imposed to address the spread of COVID-19.

The latest monthly extension goes through Oct. 21, White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters Monday.

Zients said nearly all foreign nationals traveling to the United States by air will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination starting in early November.

He said “we do not have any updates to the land border policies at this point.”

U.S. lawmakers have been pushing the White House to lift restrictions that have barred non-essential travel by Canadians across the northern U.S. border since March 2020.

The U.S. land border restrictions do not bar U.S. citizens from returning home.

Republican Montana Senator Steve Daines said Monday the White House’s “continued refusal to open the northern border is inexplicable and is devastating Montana border communities and our economy.”

— Reporting for Reuters by David Shepardson in Washington, D.C.

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Inoculated visitors from countries other than the United States will be permitted to enter beginning on Sept. 7. The relaxation depends on Canada’s COVID-19 rates remaining favourable, officials said.

“Thanks to the rising vaccination rates and declining COVID-19 cases, we are able to move forward with adjusted border measures,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference at Brampton, Ont.

Some 50 per cent of Canadian residents are fully vaccinated, and 75 per cent have had one shot, government officials said.

Businesses in Canada and the U.S., particularly the travel and airline industries, pushed for an end to restrictions on non-essential travel between the two countries, which were imposed in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic.

Since then, the land border has been closed to all non-essential travel. However, the U.S. has allowed Canadians to fly in, while Canada has not allowed Americans to do the same.

“As Canada moves from recovery into growth, having workable border measures for fully vaccinated travelers is critical for Canadian businesses,” said Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Until now, the U.S. and Canada had extended the border restrictions month-by-month.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said U.S. officials told him it was likely Washington would extend its land border restrictions, which expire on Thursday, for an additional month.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say whether the U.S. would follow Canada’s lead.

“We are continuing to review our travel decisions and we’ll be guided by our public health and medical experts… I wouldn’t look at it through a reciprocal intention,” she told a briefing when asked about Canada’s decision.

People eligible to enter Canada must have been fully vaccinated at least 14 days beforehand. Children under 12 who are not vaccinated will not be required to quarantine if traveling with their fully inoculated parents.

The government repeated that Canadians should still avoid non-essential travel abroad.

The news should be a boost for Canada’s hard-hit airlines which have recovered more slowly from the pandemic than their U.S. counterparts. Ottawa is also lifting the requirement that all travelers arriving by air must spend three nights in a hotel.

Canada’s second-largest carrier, WestJet, said it was operating at 40 per cent capacity in July compared with pre-pandemic levels in 2019.

Mike McNaney, CEO of the National Airlines Council of Canada, whose members include Air Canada and WestJet, welcomed the announcement but said, “we have almost lost the summer travel season.”

In a statement, Air Canada said the loosening of the border restrictions was “an important step” and added that it had announced a new summer schedule with up to 220 daily flights between the U.S. and Canada.

— Reporting for Reuters by David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer; additional reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Allison Lampert in Montreal.

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Trudeau, under pressure to allow non-essential travel from the U.S., was more categorical than he had been on Tuesday, when he said announcements on border relaxation measures would come in the weeks ahead.

“I know people want to reopen (the border). But I know these people are also really afraid that we will have to pull back and reimpose restrictions if we open too quickly,” he told French-language broadcaster Radio-Canada.

Pressed for a specific timetable as to when the restrictions would be eased, Trudeau replied: “This will happen in weeks — it won’t be months, we’re talking about weeks — but it will take a few more weeks.”

Canada said on Monday it would waive quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated citizens on July 5 but made clear it would be months before U.S. and other foreign travellers could enter the country.

Trudeau said authorities were looking at vaccination rates, the spread of variants of concern and how the rest of the world was dealing with COVID-19.

Canada and the U.S. first banned non-essential travel in March 2020 as a part of the effort to fight COVID-19. The restrictions, which exclude trade in goods, are now due to expire on July 21.

— Reporting for Reuters by David Ljunggren in Ottawa.

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Canada is under pressure from companies and the tourism industry to ease the ban, which was imposed in March 2020 to help contain spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and has been renewed on a monthly basis ever since.

But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood firm, saying the border would stay largely shut until 75 per cent of Canadians had received the first of a two-dose coronavirus vaccine and 20 per cent had been given both shots.

Although Trudeau said Canada had basically achieved the first target, official data released after he spoke showed 73.4 per cent had received their first shot. Only 5.5 per cent of the eligible population has had both shots.

“Even a fully vaccinated individual can pass on COVID-19 to someone who is not vaccinated,” Trudeau told reporters, saying Canada needed to avoid “any further massive waves.”

The extended border closure comes as the Alberta unveiled plans to fully reopen the province on July 1, lifting virtually all remaining public health restrictions, after 70 per cent of eligible Albertans received their first vaccination dose.

The travel ban does not affect trade in goods but Statistics Canada said total exports of services in 2020 compared with 2019 fell by 17.7 per cent and imports of services plunged by 24 per cent, in part due to the border restrictions. Travel and transportation services were particularly hard hit.

“The inability of the U.S. and Canadian governments to reach an agreement on alleviating border restrictions… is simply unacceptable,” said U.S. Representatives Brian Higgins and Bill Huizenga, co-chairs of the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group.

Harley Finkelstein, president of Canadian e-commerce company Shopify, tweeted that the extended border closure was the wrong decision. “We need to open the border for fully vaccinated travellers immediately,” he wrote.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce — a national group that advocates for businesses — lamented what it said was Ottawa’s excessive caution.

“All of the science would say we should be moving ahead to reopen the border. We don’t even have a plan at this point,” said Perrin Beatty, the group’s CEO.

Ottawa will reveal on Monday how it plans to start easing measures for fully vaccinated Canadians.

— David Ljunggren is Reuters’ national political correspondent in Ottawa; additional reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Nia Williams in Calgary.

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Getting ideas

Careful planning and research will make for a safe, enjoyable and rewarding trip. And remember, Google is your friend.

First, decide what are must-see places on your checklist. Sydney’s big-city experiences are easy, as you will need a few days to acclimatize and get over jet lag when first arriving.

Is it worthwhile to see Ayer’s Rock in the middle of the continent versus spending time on the Great Barrier Reef? Taking the SkyRail in the tropics of Cairns versus the Great Ocean Road drive from Adelaide? Distances are very far apart and while air travel is quite civilized you still need to give yourself ample days to rest and enjoy the country instead of trying to check off as many items on the list as possible.

It seems almost everyone has a friend who has connections to someone in that country. Quiz these people on what to see and maybe they will set you up with someone to visit when you get there.

Another great resource would be to actively communicate with Australian farmers on Twitter, and search Google for farm tours in different parts of the country. There is no better way to experience sugar cane farming, huge cotton farms, or dairies that operate without supply management.

Getting there

It’s a long way to get from the Prairies to Australia. Depending on your connections you can expect at least 17 hours of actual time in the air. Start your planning with Google Flights which gives you all the available options and filters, but once you have chosen an itinerary it will track the pricing and alert you when the price drops for a short-notice sale. It’s amazing how much it can vary over short periods of time, so be ready with your credit card.

You will need a tourist visa to enter Australia, which is available quickly and easily on the Australia Government website at https://www.eta.homeaffairs.gov.au. If you are considering going to work in Australia for a period of time, be sure to have your work visa in place, which seems to be easy to acquire if coming from a fellow Commonwealth country.

Getting around

First, remember you are driving on the other side of the road.

Since most of the time you will be following traffic, you quickly get used to the idea of how you should be driving around the traffic circle, that is actually the best traffic control device ever invented and you’ll wonder why there is ever a need for a traffic light.

Rental car companies are plentiful, most of the same brands we are accustomed to in North America. Be advised that if you don’t buy their extra insurance, you will be responsible for a deductible of up to $5,000 on your rental car and they may place a hold on your credit card of that amount until the car is returned with no damage. An alternative is coverage from a third party such as RentalCover.com. If you are depending on your travel credit card to cover your extra insurance, be sure to read the fine print. Also, be sure to ask the questions from any coverage provider if you are covered if you get a stone chip, or hit a kangaroo.

And don’t be in a hurry to book your vehicles. My trip had all the rental car companies’ rates drop in half approximately two weeks before departure. They also have reasonable fees for renting in one city and dropping off in another.

Getting connected

Keeping connected to friends, family and Facebook has never been easier than it is today. Your local mobile phone provider can sell you a roaming package to cover your time away.

But if you want to have a holiday and be disconnected from the usual distractions while saving money, consider getting a local SIM card. We all have old phones in the drawer, and as long as they are unlocked you can pop in a local SIM card and be instantly connected to phone and data.

Before leaving home forward all your phone numbers to a web-based service that sends your voice mails to you in an email. My preference is Kall8.com for many reasons, but there are others out there as well. Apple users can log in to IMessage on your travel phone and get all your text messages. The key thing is to leave your regular phone at home, turned on and plugged in, then it will never accidently connect and roam you into a huge surprise phone bill when on holidays.

Data from a reputable mobile provider with good coverage is important, since you will become very dependent on your mapping app of choice. Google Maps allows you to download trips in advance.

Getting a good night’s sleep

Unlike North America where every town seems to have a new Holiday Inn Express on the outskirts, rural Australia still has an abundance of motor hotels. Without any consistent hotel chains, you’ll have to book directly with each one or use Expedia.com, Booking.com or look at Google Maps for the next town to see what’s available.

A popular option is to combine your vehicle with your accommodation and rent a campervan, which can be a great money saver.

Getting a good meal

Skip the chains, skip the Yelp reviews. Go directly to the nearest pub, visit with some locals and have the best meal in town. No matter where you travel in the world, follow the locals. Need a quick lunch? Grab a meat pie or a spring roll from the first bakery you see on the street.

While the food prices may seem high, don’t forget the sales tax is included in the pricing, and tipping is not expected.

Also, rather than promoting parallel parking as Canada has, angle parking is the norm to maximize spaces, even including angle parking in the centre of the street.

Getting home

After making the most of your trip of a lifetime, it’s a long trip home. With the time change, date line, and jet lag, the journey home seems like a 40-hour day — because it is! With the 16-hour time change you will likely take longer to get back to normal at home than you did when arriving in Australia.

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