During my trip to Australia in February, I toured a couple of wineries in the Hunter Valley, located two hours north of Sydney. The other day, in an article in...
In several earlier posts I’ve talked about the ongoing problem of trains hitting cars at grade crossings. Just yesterday, there was a report of a fatal accident in a suburb...
It’s a recurring phenomenon with me: a feeling of melancholy during the last few hours of any long distance train journey. It’s happening again as I finish a last drink...
Once again we’re back in the middle of the trackless hot and dry area that makes up most of the middle of the Australian continent. The first to successfully settle...