I’m ignoring the fact that we’re ending the last week of our vacation. We’ve been having too good of a time to think about that. Besides, we don’t have to go back to work for about six more days — because of the date-line and the long holiday weekend. The truth is, [...]

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This is an update to my earlier post on Aboriginal Australians.
After a really great hike through the Valley of the Winds in Kata Tjuṯa on the 20th, Lisa and I stopped into the national park’s Cultural Centre. It was really interesting reading stories from the Aṉunga Dreaming about the formation and significance of Uluṟu.* [...]

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I’m going to live a little dangerously now and write about race, specifically Aboriginal Australians. Hopefully reading about it doesn’t make you too nervous; although I have to admit that it makes me a little nervous that I’m going to accidentally write something that doesn’t convey my true feelings or (worse) that shows me [...]

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I’m trying to build a time-lapse video from some photographs that I took today with my camera’s interval timer. It was very convenient having the camera do all of the hard work after I set up the tripod and set the timer to make an exposure every 45 seconds. Lisa and I were [...]

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As I write this on the evening of Friday the 18th of June in Watarrka National Park, Lisa and I have been in Australia the better part of two weeks. There’s no Internet in this particular part of the outback — not even a kiosk where you drop dollar coins in for a bit [...]

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We’re in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory right now. Yesterday we were in Litchfield NP.
These parks are unusual by American standards, but I love ‘em. You don’t know what you’re going to see until you’re there, because it’s mostly just monsoon forest. But then you stop at an amazing waterfall [...]

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New photos are up on Flickr.

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Wednesday, 9 June 2010, a bit after 9:00 PM (ACST)
Hopefully, yesterday’s dispatch wasn’t too incoherent, although I fear it was a bit rambling. I didn’t have enough change to feed the meter another time. So, there wasn’t a chance to proofread or make edits. And I was kind of tired. Even [...]

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It’s a bit after 4:00PM on Tuesday the 8th of June in Australia right now.
We’re in Sydney for one more night before we jet off to Darwin tomorrow morning. We’ll spend a small amount of time before starting the big, big part of our adventure: the RV. But more on that later.
Sydney is nice. [...]

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Q: Are you going to New Zealand?A: No, Australia is big enough.
Q: Are you going to Perth?A: No, Kelly. We’re not going to Perth this trip. Although it does sound awesome.
Q: Are you going to Tasmania?A: Not this time. Everybody says it’s fantastic. Maybe next time — I’m going to suppose there [...]

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