I met up with an old college friend this morning on a stopover in San Francisco.  Our rendezvous flew by as we both tried to fill each other in on...

Yin and Yang The iconic Bondi Iceberg Club is an ultra white 4-story rectangular building built into the cliffs of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.  Light blue ocean waves pound...

It had just rained torrentially for 5 days straight in Cairns, Australia.  Even for a rainforest’s standards, the volume was record-breaking.  The Cairns Community Facebook Page was overloaded with locals...

In the land of sugar cane, crocodiles and the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Australia has a hidden gem:  the Cairns Yacht Club (or CYC as it’s referred to).  An inconspicuous boatshed...

Flying 1,000ft over the NE corner of Tasmania and banking left towards Flinders Island in a 1978 4-seater Cessna, it occurred to me how little I had known about Tasmania...

In the final scene from Point Break (Keanu Reaves’ 1991 blockbuster film about an undercover FBI agent tracking bank robber surfers), Patrick Swayze is released from handcuffs to surf a...

I felt completely at home in my beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, a city of about 1.3M with a similar layout to Philadelphia nestled in Australia’s wine region capital...

Where is Kangaroo Island? My 2nd Workaway experience was on Kangaroo Island, a remote island in South Australia that few Australians could locate and even fewer have visited.  Because of its...

Noosa, Australia I am a guest here, volunteering through a company called Workaway, receiving room and board for 5 hours a day of work…  but it’s hard to call it...

A Trip to Sydney After traveling 53 hours to get to Sydney, Australia, you could say I took the scenic route.  With an unexpected 12 hour layover in LA and...