Show and Tell
Mostly show. A little tell. Oh, and full disclosure: there’ll be a picture of wombat poop somewhere. Just because. So. The wicked storm that had been rallying out in the […]
Category Archives: australia-pacific
Singing for my Supper
One of my friends posed a perfectly reasonable question in response to my last few blog posts. Something along the lines of, “Uhhh, what’s with all this galavanting about – […]
MONA
Up until very recently, the only thing I thought I knew about Tasmania (other than that Tasmanian devils were real, but nothing like what Warner Brothers would have us believe), […]
Shortest Summer Ever
Two hours and 46 minutes. Technically, it was summer when I stepped off the plane in Hobart, 25 hours and change after boarding Qantas 3744 in Seattle. It had been […]
Too Much to Write About
I’ve been still trying to catch up, still trying to write about everything we saw and did in those two weeks on the road/water/trail. And you know? There’s just too […]
Dusk
I’m spent. Sure, I’m spent every day, but today is a new shade of spent, a new angle on the feeling of being “done.” Past days, it was a sun/paddle/snorkel/sun/paddle/snorkel routine that left me feeling desiccated…
Mornings
The onset of heat in the morning is always startling. It shouldn’t be: it was hot and humid all night; add one blisteringly bright tropical sun, and what do you […]
Dawn
In this dark, the heat hanging from the stifling, still air of the camp tent feels incomprehensible. Remember: I’m a northern boy – the dark is supposed to be a […]
Palau, Day One
Quick note here – yes, we’ve made it to Palau, and yes, it’s more than a little breathtaking. We’ve got an hour or so of internet left before we’ll be […]
Guam. With Bob.
Guam is the southernmost (and maybe largest?) of the Marianas, a string of islands that arc north through the equatorial Pacific as a sort of geological ski jump out of […]
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