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A RECORD number of Australians are expected to travel to the US this year.

A RECORD number of Australians are expected to travel to the US this year as airlines slash their fares to around $1000.

Visit USA estimates more than one million Australians will travel to America in 2012. “It’s a remarkable number considering the population is 22 million,” Visit USA spokesman Mark Sheehan said.

“The population of the US is 322 million people and even with Oprah it only manages to send 500,000 Americans to Australia each year.”

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Any fellow Aussies going this year? I know I am :-)

High-res Tim Mathieson, Australian Prime minister’s partner, shows U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama his cowboy boots before she hosts a luncheon with the spouses of APEC leaders at Kualoa Ranch in Kaaawa, Hawaii. (REUTERS/Hugh Gentry) ———————————— Which for some reason seeing the image above, brings me back to this Simpson’s episode:

Tim Mathieson, Australian Prime minister’s partner, shows U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama his cowboy boots before she hosts a luncheon with the spouses of APEC leaders at Kualoa Ranch in Kaaawa, Hawaii. (REUTERS/Hugh Gentry)

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Which for some reason seeing the image above, brings me back to this Simpson’s episode:

High-res Samantha Stosur is Australia’s first female grand slam singles champion in 31 years after pulling off a stunning upset over Serena Williams at today’s US Open final. Stosur, 27, won her first Grand Slam title and became the first Australian woman to capture any of tennis’s four major tournaments since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 at Wimbledon.  An engraved metal panel in the Court of Champions leading toward the tournament’s main arena lists every singles winner since the event moved to the National Tennis Center in New York in 1978. Until yesterday, no Australian woman had made the list.

Samantha Stosur is Australia’s first female grand slam singles champion in 31 years after pulling off a stunning upset over Serena Williams at today’s US Open final. Stosur, 27, won her first Grand Slam title and became the first Australian woman to capture any of tennis’s four major tournaments since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980 at Wimbledon. 

An engraved metal panel in the Court of Champions leading toward the tournament’s main arena lists every singles winner since the event moved to the National Tennis Center in New York in 1978. Until yesterday, no Australian woman had made the list.