All posts tagged southern
The Road Goes Ever On and On
I spent almost a month in New Zealand and realized, gosh, I hadn’t written much at all about this wonderful, magical place. Well, now that I’m back on dry land in Colombia, …
Ten Years After…
Ten years ago today, the United States began perhaps its costliest and most destructive foreign policy blunder. And as for many young journalists, it also allowed me to jump-start my …
Australia’s Forgotten People
Aborigines just aren’t visible in the larger population. From Perth to Melbourne, including in Adelaide, I rarely saw an Aborigine. And when I did, they were like the poor woman I saw today, sitting around on the margins, singly or in small groups. White Australians seemed to scarcely notice them. Even worse, in Coober Pedy, I was warned of an Aboriginal “gang” roaming the streets at night, as if they were wild dogs. I’ve never seen an Aborigine working in Australia, either as a cop, a waitress… as anyone
From Here, North
The numbing flatness of southern Australia and its Eyre Peninsula is beginning to get to me, not to mention the endless driving and huge distance between, well, everything. I find myself …
A Landscape of Sensual and Terrible Beauty
EUCLA, Western Australia — I realize that in all of this, I haven’t really given my impressions of Australia, particularly its wild and woolly western half. In short, it’s tremendous and awesome. I’ve …
Sea Change
“Devote thyself single-mindedly to the Faith, and thus follow the nature designed by Allah, the nature according to which He has fashioned mankind. There is no altering the creation of Allah” — Surah 30:30
Le Grande Tour, Days 2 – 3: Life on the River
MEKONG RIVER — If the first day leaving Chiang Mai was somewhat leisurely, the morning of the second day seemed almost frantic. Well, as frantic as life gets in northern Thailand — which is …
‘To think that anything so fantastic could exist on this sombre earth’
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — To say the north of Thailand differs from the south is one of the most obvious observations you can make about this country. And by “south,” I mean Bangkok …
Three Weeks in Delhi
I’ve spent about three weeks in Delhi now, and love it. It’s a great city, with tremendous energy, good food and a very optimistic feel about the future. But I’ve been hesitant …
Antipodal Nodes
View Larger Map I’ve been reading Seth Stevenson’s book on overland circumnavigation of the globe, “Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World”, and he brings up an interesting point: …
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