Ginger Without Borders

We were greeted with a rainbow over the ocean when we checked into our hotel room in Apollo Bay. It was a good omen because it meant the rain had moved on. Many parts of Australia are in severe drought and some radio reports indicated that there are localities that will exhaust their water supplies…

The Great Ocean Road was built by Australian servicemen returning from the Great War (now know as World War I) as a memorial to their comrades who were lost in Europe. It is the world’s largest war memorial. It is 152 miles long and was built from 1919 until 1932, largely by hand. Parts of…

When the travel agents sent us the proposed Australia schedule, both Dawn and I balked at the distance we would have to cover in one day from Adelaide to Warrnambool in order to start the Great Ocean Road. Google maps indicated it would be about six hours in the rental car. It has been our…

After two wonderful days on Kangaroo Island, we took a short (25 minute) hop back to Adelaide in a propeller driven Volvo commuter plane. Neither Dawn nor I could remember the last time we rode in a propeller driven plane (and now we have done it twice in three days). Before we left for the…

After two mornings of rising early for travel, today we finally had an opportunity for a little “lie in” as the Australians call it. But my body clock had me up minutes before my cellphone alarm clock rang. Our Exceptional tour operators arrived five minutes early (like the other transportation folks we have experienced here).…