Any reference to Australia is likely to feature a kangaroo, a koala, or perhaps an echidna, platypus, or emu. These are, after all, the most iconic animals here next to crocodiles and Great Whites. But it’s the birds and horses I will remember most. Since my earlier post about the animals here, one of my…

I am a man of peace. ‘Live and let live’ is a motto I respect and abide by, and I want nothing more than to exist in harmony with those around me. However that all changed in 1995 when I first encountered a real life cockroach after moving into an apartment in Columbus, Ohio. I…

My time grows short, gentle reader, so I will do my best to complete as many posts as possible in the next 8 weeks. As you may know, my trip was originally to last at least another year with further stops to New Zealand, England, and a year in Scotland. However due to the pandemic,…

Rain is something that is often taken for granted until one day it’s nowhere to be found. The weather in Ohio is rainy at least a handful of days every month. Of course this prevalence of precipitation is largely due to living in close proximity to Lake Erie, an enormous body of water and one…

When talk of the coming paradise and the prospect of having a limitless amount of time to spend learning new things arises, a point about plants is often mentioned, namely that ‘we’ll be able to learn the names of all of the different kinds of trees there are.’ This comment is often followed by an…

We stopped into the Central Highlands shopping Marketplace so that I could buy an ear bud/headset for a job I was supposed to start once we returned to Monto. (This would end up being one of two jobs I was hired for and immediately quit after the first class, despite being a bit hard up…

Years ago while attending a Trek convention with some friends, I was listening to one of the series actors talk about a moment in his life when he was sitting in a bathtub and watching the water swirl away down the drain. He realized that essentially this was what was happening with his career and…

The day before leaving for the trip North I had found a snail while clipping the edges of the lawn. I had brought it inside to see if I could get a nice time lapse video, but it wasn’t until night fell that the little guy finally came out of his shell and I was…

Lark: (n) – 1. Something done for fun; an amusing escapade. 2. An activity regarded as foolish or a waste of time. One of the draws for coming out to Longreach was the suggestion that we could visit the dinosaur museum in Winton. It would be a further two hours away, but, well…dinosaurs!! We had…

Peter and Carolyn wanted to go and visit the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This initially failed to elicit excitement as it sounded like a place focused on cows and farming. These are two things not generally seen in Michael Bay movies and not typically classed as exciting. In addition, this trip was already going to…