Ginger Without Borders

We were warned that New Zealand would be colder than Australia but Christchurch was quite warm. We soon discovered that New Zealand has the opposite problem of Australia. While Australia is suffering drought and bush fires, New Zealand is having a very rainy Spring. So much rain has fallen that it has twice washed out…

We have made our last airplane flight until we head back to the US in December. And of course, at the Sydney airport was when the Australian version of the TSA literally took everything out of Dawn’s two carry-on items. She had left a bottle with a little water in the bottom of one but…

As we wandered through Australia, Dawn and I spent a fair amount of time talking about how much this or that part of Australia reminded us of other places we have been fortunate enough to visit in our years of traveling.  But what occurred to me in the shower this morning on our first day…

Our Australian adventure has come to its last two days.  While we really enjoyed the Rocks area of Sydney, we wanted one more journey into the bush before we head off to New Zealand.  When Sydney was first being developed, numerous groups attempted to push further into the Australian interior only to hit the insurmountable…

Athough Dutch and Spanish navigators discovered western Australia in the late 1600’s, it was not until 1770 that Captain Cook explored and charted parts of the east coast of Australia and claimed the territory for England. And even though its land mass was bigger than all of Europe (even bigger than the continental US), it…