February 15, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Okay, I admit it: I’m freezing. Here we are on the south coast of Western Australia at the tail end of summer and I’m freezing. Not all the time. There […]
February 14, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
The view from the top is spectacular, but it’s one heck of a climb. 75 meters straight up, in a spiral, around, and around a giant Karri tree. This particular […]
February 14, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
The scent on the morning breeze, as the sun yawns into her golden arc and warms the grey green leaves of a eucalyptus forest, is intoxicating. It’s a forest smell […]
February 13, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Hamelin Bay is one of the perfect places in the world. White sand beaches stretch as far as the eye can see in either direction. The water is a blue […]
February 13, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Sometimes, I just have to walk. I get this slightly claustrophobic feeling in my own head. Noises from the outside seem louder than they should. My physical space seems impinged […]
February 12, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
We knew we’d love Australia, but we couldn’t have predicted how much! We’re kind of critter collectors: amateur biologists of sorts. We’ve long kept nature notebooks as part of our […]
February 11, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
The number one out of Perth headed south looks a lot like the wilds of Arizona, and occasionally like the north loop around Chicago, with the highway divided around the […]
February 8, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Having left Asia in an all fire hurry, tired of the press of overpopulation, ready to eat something that doesn’t include noodles or rice, and having spent 10 months, essentially, […]
February 7, 2013 in Asia, Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, Travelogue
Let me open by saying, “It was all my fault.” All of it. Even the parts that were not my fault and out of my control. Those were my fault […]
February 6, 2013 in Asia, Indonesia, Travelogue
Our last memories of Bali are in the dark. The warm sultry dark of evening to a latin beat, not as incongruous as one might think for an island bridging […]
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