Hehe - my backpacking days are also long gone. I do like traveling though and try to get away as much as I can. I don't have kids so that makes a big difference. So anyway when I was 17 I spent a summer working in Clifden, Connemara (sorry if the spelling is wrong) - just up the road from Galway. What an amazing part of the world that is!! You are blessed to call that home. Fraser Island is awesome eh - I spent a lot of my childhood there on camping trips!