Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting
At Nundroo Roadhouse, waiting was a time of day. Every time of day, it often seemed. Those three months weren’t just a rare employment opportunity – they were a lesson in patience…
Category Archives: Australia
Every Departure Is An Arrival
It’s a well-honed habit, the final actions of a traveler who has done this a thousand times before. Pen out, one last entry scribbled in the journal that’s acted as silent companion during this portion of the journey.
Red Dirt On The Dashboard: Travel Playlist For An Australia Road Trip
Until then, I’ll placate myself through songs. For if there’s one thing every road trip needs, it’s a proper travel playlist. And an exploding Aussie music scene means the only thing more vast than the cross-country kilometers are the local musicians who sing about them.
The Devil In The Details, and 8 Other Ways To Tell You’re In Tasmania
Two heads. Webbed feet. Snaggle teeth. An assortment of unflattering body parts that supposedly separate inbred Tasmanians from the rest of Australia. However mercilessly the Mainlanders may laugh at the island, locals shrug it off with a stoic pioneer spirit. During my six months here, I’ve realized that they’ll gladly trade a little laughter in order to keep secret the paradise that is their home.
Wattle Seeds and Witchetty Grubs: Discovering Australia’s Unusual Cuisine
So this is what good luck tastes like. A clod of dirt caught between my front teeth, earthly particles burying my taste buds under the distinctive flavor of ground soil.
Up A Mountain Without A Map: Climbing Mt. Parsons
Lost means little when you’re halfway up a rock face, wedged furtively between towers of stone. Every surface looks the same from this angle; no map promises us stable footing.
My partner and I are chasing cairns to the top of Mount Parsons.
Why Fishing Is Like Traveling
But my boyfriend, Hadyn, feels about fishing as I feel about traveling: that it is an act of passion, of reverence, which must be practiced as often as possible in order to feel a legendary moment of aliveness. Both activities share a pull that only the dedicated will ever understand.
Too Mutch For Words 