One of the most frustrating things about my efforts to share in my travel adventured is to come back from my various trips with a lot of photographs to share, but for some reason, many of the photos have simply disappeared. I have no idea why. For example, I took hundreds of shots on my…
Here’s a departure from the norm: Darwin’s train station is a 30 minute taxi ride out of town, well beyond the airport. And when I get there, the rain is coming down in sheets … so hard that Great Southern Railway, operators of The Ghan, have buses there to take us from the terminal itself…
The night before my flight up to Darwin, as I arrange a wake-up call, the woman at the hotel’s front desk says 30 minutes will be plenty of time to allow for the check-in. Well, as a veteran traveler, I know better and this morning I arrive at the Perth airport nearly two hours before…
Most people think that three nights on a train is an eternity. Me? I’m always sorry when I near the end of a train ride, no matter how long I’ve been on board. It’s true again as I sit having breakfast on the last morning of the last day of this ride on the Indian…