RadioRoryLeaving New Zealand is a bit like leaving Key West. To move forward, you’ve got to double-back on a lot of ground you’ve seen before. […]
Category: Australia
Before Leaving Australia
Two quick stories before leaving the land of Midnight Oil. I swung by the Australia Zoo. It’s the place made famous by the late Crocodile […]
Schoolies Are Younger, Tamer Spring Break
Tell an Aussie you’re in Gold Coast for Schoolies and you’ll get an instant eye roll and a look of sympathy. I had no idea […]
This Town Was Made for Walking
I love the beach, but after sitting there for 10 minutes I need to start walking. Maybe it’s a holdover from my old days as […]
Don’t Drink and Bridge Climb
It makes sense to want a good stiff drink before climbing to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After all, it’s more than 1,300 […]
Face to Face with Sydney’s Opera House
I will never forget how I felt when the commuter train I was on pulled into Sydney’s Circular Quay transit hub. Located in the heart […]
Prisons, Baseball, and Mass Shootings, or “Why Tasmania is just like America”
Ok, they’re not really alike but they were the three topics I wanted to cover in this last post about Tasmania. The prison and mass […]
The Hardest Blog Post I’ll Write
This is the hardest blog post I’ll probably ever write. Not for emotional reasons, but because I’m so intent on getting it just right. This […]
Can’t Unsee Naughty Tasmania
A whole post about one museum in Hobart, Tasmania? At least. MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, is edgy…and then some. Displays include […]
Melbourne vs. Sydney. Who would you rather?
There’s an unspoken contest between Melbourne and Sydney as to which is the better city. Ok, maybe it’s not THAT unspoken. The two cities are […]