Our First Day in Van Diesel in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania for the non-Aussies, or "Tassie" for short)
Our Longford family Adventure to Tasmania, has been in the making since June of this year. Given the "fluidity" of the "COVID situation" and Premiers that changed state border rules, week to week depending on what the polls were saying, we were never truly certain we would actually get on that plane, until we actually did. Even at the eleventh hour QANTAS cancelled our flight and we scrambled to get the last four seats on an earlier flight. As the plane took off from Brisbane, we felt like we were escaping. Even though the borders between Queensland and Tasmania are open now, air travel and moving around interstate for a holiday now seems even more exciting than ever, we have stopped taking it for granted. Plus after two years of being told to lock ourselves away we are kinda over it. We've done all the right things, we wore masks when we had to, we declared our whereabouts when we had to, we nearly lost our business due to border closures, we vaccinated ourse...