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Australian Adventures, Part IX - Night In Cairns
Following a most amazing seafaring adventure, I was now very much ready to partake in some much needed culinary diversions in order to celebrate this most momentous of days. I already had something in mind, but as it was still early afternoon, I sought some alternative modes of relaxation. I mixed myself some of the scotch from the duty free with ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part VIII - The Great Barrier Reef
Following my spectacular day at the rainforest, the following day was more or less anti-climactic. I pretty much slept in, and spent the day catching up with friends and family back home, while enjoying the sunny weather and tropical clime. I neglected to mention that the previous day, after returning from our rainforest excursion, we found that ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part VII - the Daintree Rainforest
Normally, one would think that part of being on vacation is being able to sleep in whenever you like. Unfortunately, the price for sleeping in is missing out on the expensive tours that you've already booked. Wasn't about to let anything like that happen on this trip. So, I crawled out of bed at 6:30 in the morning (far later than some wake-ups I' ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part VI - Cairns
From January 27thI'd stayed up late the night before watching the Presidential Inauguration. More for the sake of actually making sure the momentous occasion in history actually had opportunity to pass than anything else. I really enjoyed the quartet music, it was simply beautiful. Sure "Air and Simple Gifts" by John Williams was pre-recorded, but ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures Part V - The Australia Zoo
Exploring Australia has been a unique experience in many ways. On some levels, the similarity in language, culture, and even shopping venues makes it all too easy to assimilate back in to something resembling home. At the same time, there's subtle details that remind me how far out I am, and even more glaring differences that present the fact that ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part IV - Hyde Park and The Australia Museum
Well, what else is there to describe in Sydney? Ha. What's there NOT to describe in Sydney ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part III - Chinatown and Bondi Beach
Sydney made for quite an interesting trip. My first culinary diversion was into Chinatown. The place was packed to the gills with people, and absolutely gorgeous. Clean, well maintained, and full of shops, restaurants, and parks, it was a great place to check out. I looked for a noodle shop recommended by a travel guide, and the food was ( Read more... ) -
Australian Adventures, Part II - Sydney
My first day in Sydney was pretty fun. Off the airport in to the hot, humid weather, it felt like I was in Disneyworld. I took a shuttle up to my room at the Vibe Hotel, a swank place as hip as its name, right in the downtown center. I grabbed some Indian food as my first meal. Tandoori chicken just like home, it was a great way to break my long ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Australia, Part I - Enroute
I'm really not quite sure how to explain how I got here. I suppose it started off with a friend from last deployment taking a cruise to cage dive with great white sharks. Perhaps even before that with a social studies lesson of the country in 7th grade. And perhaps even earlier when some part of the roma blood that I claim (without complete ( Read more... ) -
A forest in the desert
Unfortunately, I'm coming to realize more and more that few of my posts contain any complex or interesting plot. They are mostly subjective casts in to the pool of visual images I come across throughout my travels. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that, it just seems more like a lengthy rambling of a tired old man than the inspiring visions of ( Read more... )