Native North Carolinian

My friend Marcus suggested that I might find talking about traveling to other places an interesting topic for this blog, so I thought I might try it. You can let me know what you think in the comments. He wanted me to compare them to North Carolina, and then say how North Carolina is always better, but he has underestimated the size of my travel lust, and while I do always want to come home, I really do love to go, go, go.

So, lets talk about Australia. I was surprised to see Australia hotels on the Asia hotels website. It just never occurred to me that it would be considered part of Asia, ykwim? But it makes as much sense as anywhere else, geographically, so it works. Once you get to that Australia page, you can use the right sidebar to find hotels for a specific city, for example hotels in Cairns. Pretty simple, yes? Yes.

So what is Cairns like? The temps range from a mean temperature of 25.7 °C in July to 31.4 °C in January, and they get tropical monsoons between November and March. In contrast, our temps here in coastal North Carolina range from an average of 31.6 °C in summer to 4.4°C in winter, and we have hurricanes from June to December. Sounds like I might want to go in their winter, since they are coolest while we are hottest, but I use the term coolest is a very loosest sense of the word.

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