I was recently contacted by an Elementary school (grades 1-8) classmate who now lives in Sydney, and invited classmates to get in touch if they ever visit Australia. (She'll be sorry.) Well, Australia and New Zealand have plants and animals that are found nowhere else in the world, and I'd like to see them! Particularly Victoria and Tasmania, and I don't know where in NZ. I just turned 70, so if I wanna do that, I'd better get a move on while I still can. So I am now working on it.
If you live in AU or NZ, and you wouldn't mind buying me a VB at lunch, or even offering a bed for the night, I might be appearing on your doorstep in the next year or two. Let me know where you are via e-mail or PM.
Conversely, if you're visiting the United States, and traveling through Virginia (near Washington DC), I've got plenty of beer - I brew my own - and have a guest bedroom available. But, like relatives and fish, you've gotta leave after three days.
I hope this gets something started.
Dave Hennessey