Flavor of the Week: Kangaroo Tail Soup
To look at the frozen bloody stump that once propelled Australia’s icon across the Outback is to seriously consider vegetarianism. And that’s a dramatic statement, given my current location. Down […]
Category Archives: Australia
How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 5-8
Two years ago, daily lamentations filled up the journal I had carried to an isolated mining town in Western Australia. Against all good advice to “make the most of it,” I hated Newman. The bugs, […]
Escape From Nundroo, #1: Fowlers Bay
Salt, decomposing meat and uprooted seaweed – that distinctive odor of the ocean – floods my nostrils as I climb out of the truck. The others don’t find it appealing. “It smells like […]
Postage Stamp: Nundroo, South Australia
From our room, the passing road trains sound like swooping aircraft, not the earth-bound rush of mighty 18-wheelers bearing their goods eastward. The highway sustains life out here. It is […]
Travel Theme: Architecture
Australia’s architecture is determined by the tyranny of its distances. 4,100 km (2,547 m) between coasts create a country of stylistic opposites. From the colonial domes of Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station… […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Color
From its dusty sienna soils to its leathery locals, Australia earns the poetic moniker “A Sunburnt Country.” Sand, skin tones, fresh produce and paint works are all shaded from pale red […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Love (Or, How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 1-4)
How to Love a Town You Don’t; Steps 1 – 4 (Brought to you by the Weekly Photo Challenge).
Too Mutch For Words 