Everglades National Park We got up reasonably early today, jumped in the car, and headed out along the SR-41 to the Shark Valley Visitor Center at the northern end of the Everglades National Park. Despite the name, there were no sharks there – the name for the area comes from the “Shark River Slough”, part … [Read More »]

Miami and Miami Beach We slept in. I think it was 10:30am by the time I got up, and it was after 11:30am by the time Leanne crawled out of bed. We blame the 3 hour time difference between Miami and Los Angeles. Eventually we got down to the lobby and had a muffin, bagel … [Read More »]

LAX – FLL, Ft. Lauderdale to Miami The day started very early for us today, up at 4am, finish packing and out the door soon after 5am, drive around to the Hertz office, drop off the car, negotiate with the manager a US$200 discount on our car rental for nearly killing us during the “incident … [Read More »]

Las Vegas to Los Angeles We started the day early, getting up, finishing the packing, checking out of our hotel, NYNY, and loading up the car. We drove up the strip a bit to find Elvis-a-Rama, a museum dedicated to the life and history of Elvis, especially his time spent performing in Las Vegas. It … [Read More »]

Las Vegas, Software University Day 5 Today started off a little differently, with a breakfast meeting for all of the A/NZ staff from 7:00am until just after 9:30am at the MGM Grand convention center, after which we walked up to the Venetian for the rest of our technical sessions, which finished at 2:45pm. After the … [Read More »]