As humans, we tend to want what we don’t — or can’t — have. So while you’re building your never-ending list of places you can’t visit right now, add to it these locales you can literally never visit, under any …
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Around the World in Review, Leg 13: Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Hawaii
Around the World in Review, Leg 13: Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Hawaii
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Around the World in Review: Start Here!
Angela and I have returned from our year-long trip around the world, visiting all seven continents and 130 countries and territories. It was a daunting, wonderful, exhausting trip of a lifetime, difficult in the original telling. But certainly worth a …
Tasmania, Australia: Beneath the Land Down Under
Heading to a new destination usually involves imagining what it will be like. Frequently, those visions are based on photos, movies, and television shows you've seen from that locale. Which means I was very confused when attempting to envision Tasmania, …
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Postcards to Wanda: Tasmania
We really didn't know what to expect from Tasmania. As it turns out, the island surprised us in the most wonderful ways.
Darwin, Australia: Where the World Comes Together
“I’m having a going-away party tomorrow,” said the Australian woman we’d just met. “You should come.” Her goodbye was our hello to an international collection of expat friends who now called Darwin home.
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Postcards to Wanda: Darwin, Australia
We packed a ton of fun into our few days in Darwin and still had time to find (and mail) this beautiful, ominous postcard to Wanda!
New Year’s Resolution: See the World
Angela and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary in October 2018, and, less than a month after that, I will turn fifty. While I'm typically not inclined to make a big deal out of a milestone, this year seems …
Australia Adventure: Mornington Peninsula Wine Country
Our Australian adventure took us all up and down the eastern coast of the country, beginning with beautiful Brisbane, heading to Cairns for our liveaboard dive excursion along the Great Barrier Reef, then to Sydney and Melbourne for some cosmopolitan dining, …
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Australia Adventure: Melbourne Walkabout
In Aboriginal culture, a walkabout historically referred to a boy's rite of passage into manhood. Today it refers to a nomadic lifestyle, and after walking all over Brisbane, Cairns, and Sydney, it felt pretty spot-on for the way we'd been seeing the sights of …