Trip: The World Part 4
There are [515] stories from my trip: The World Part 4
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2023 | Views [415]
WITH APOLOGIES TO GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS, we had to “ferry ‘cross the Murray”—there just isn’t a bridge at Waikerie. Instead, a vehicle-carrying cable ferry crosses to and fro twenty-four hours a day— hin und zuruck, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 1 Nov 2023 | Views [643]
WILPENA POUND IS THE CENTERPIECE of the Park. Although it looks like a volcanic crater it is really a natural amphitheater formed by two mountain ranges. (Don't ask how, we're not geologists!) The more intrepid can hike or backpack to the rim, 13.5 km ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023 | Views [413]
THIS MORNING’S SUNRISE WAS SPECTACULAR, almost making the early start from Quorn to the Park seem like a good idea . About 100 KM of being alert for roos on the road later, we slowed to 20 mph while three hippity-hopped across the road ahead of ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Oct 2023 | Views [314]
HAWKER BILLS ITSELF AS THE “Hub of the Flinders Ranges” and Windana Cottages is the perfect base for exploring the area. It actually rained on our way from Leigh Creek, not enough to measure but I did have to use the wipers—low intermittent ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Oct 2023 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 29 Oct 2023 | Views [342]
LEIGH CREEK WAS ONCE A BOOMING purpose-built mining town. It had a modern shopping centre, a series of neat modern roads and small, attractive plots of land with standard modern houses. Miners and their families enjoyed a social life enhanced by the ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 27 Oct 2023 | Views [261]
UNDAUNTED, WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE of days checking out the more accessible birding sites. Creeping along on the “weenie-wheel” at sixty on a 110 KPH road hardly affects traffic—we generally see only two or three cars in a hundred ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Oct 2023 | Views [305]
LESS THAN A WEEK INTO OUR OUTBACK adventure and we’ve already driven 700 miles, suffered a windscreen chip and had a puncture. We are settled into the “Historic Marree Hotel” on the edge of the Outback. We’re not really “... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 | Views [242]
WE ARE BACK ON TERRA FIRMA again, arriving in Sydney Harbour on the 50 th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. All the hassle getting Australian visas paid off as we sailed through immigration and customs without a hitch. We shared a taxi to ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Monday, 16 Oct 2023 | Views [410]
COLERIDGE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD—just like the ditty “I joined the Navy to see the world. And what did I see? I saw the sea!” Except for stops in Honolulu and Papeete and Pago Pago, we didn’t see another ship until we neared ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 29 Sep 2023 | Views [311]
DESPITE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, we are not big fans of cruises. We generally take them as alternative transportation to flying or in order to reach out-of-the-way islands. Nevertheless, we’re off again, this time from San Francisco to Sydney ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 26 Sep 2023 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 23 Sep 2023 | Views [269]
THE WEATHER IN SKAGWAY WAS TERRIBLE; cold, windy and wet. We have been in Skagway several times, even camped for a few nights, so no biggie. Nevertheless, we went ashore to stretch our legs and see what had changed.
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USA | Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023 | Views [270]
ENEN A BEHEMOTH LIKE NIEUW AMSTERDAM starts to rock-and-roll in 25-knot winds and ten-foot seas. Landlubbers to the core, both Connie and I awoke during the night from the constant motion but we waited until morning to stick a motion-sickness patch behind ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 18 Sep 2023 | Views [292]
FOR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN recommending an Alaska cruise to our less adventurous friends as a great travel baptism. We had spent a summer camping in Alaska, driving up the AlCan Highway in our Subaru, had visited Kodiak, Sitka and Juneau via the Alaska Marine ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 15 Sep 2023 | Views [284]
THE KENAI RIVER AND IT’S TRIBUTARIES have some of the best fishing in Alaska. Sometimes! As it turns out not only are we here too late for the Sockeye salmon run, we’re too early for the Silvers—and the river is running so high that ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 7 Sep 2023 | Views [315]
BACK ON TRACK, MORE OR LESS, Connie and I haven’t had a lot to post recently. Our lives this summer were pretty much the same as everyone else’s—time spent with friends sprinkled with visits to doctors, dentists, attorneys, accountants, ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 3 Sep 2023 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 | Views [649]
NOW THAT THE CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG—or rather the bones are almost out of the ground—it’s time to tell the real reason for our Denver Museum Hell Creek Road Trip.
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