Yass is the answer. The question? Fiona, did you see the king parrot? “Yass!” How about the ring-tailed possum in the tree? “Yass!” And the Koala, which we were informed in no uncertain terms is not a bear? “Yass!” Was dessert good? In unison...
Yass is the answer. The question? Fiona, did you see the king parrot? “Yass!” How about the ring-tailed possum in the tree? “Yass!” And the Koala, which we were informed in no uncertain terms is not a bear? “Yass!” Was dessert good? In unison...
And on the Third Day, we really started to get our learn on. The first thing I learned was that even for such a big country – (and by big, I mean you could literally fit two-thousand four hundred fifty and a half Kingdoms of Rhode Island inside Australia, with a bit of room left...
It’s amazing how big Australia is. Big and empty. We rode for hours down the Sapphire Coast the next day without ever seeing another soul, topless or otherwise. Not once did we see a car, no trucks, no cops… nothing but twisty roads, bright sunshine, and… our first...
Early to bed, early to rise may make a man healthy, wealthy and wise, but all it does for Sleeping Beauty is make her grumpy. Unless, of course, the wake-up call comes from one of Dan’s wild-yet-somewhat-domesticated neighbors, the Laughing Kookaburra. The call of these birds sounds...
One thing I didn’t know about Australia before we left – time travel is involved in getting there. Sleeping Beauty and I boarded the United 747 in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, flew for fourteen hours, and arrived in Sydney on… Friday morning? Does this mean...