Have you heard the saying: "You don't go to Darwin without seeing jumping crocodiles (or eating crocodiles, for that matter)."…
Keep ReadingAnother good night’s sleep (Fafa complained that I started all my recent entries with the status of my sleep ━ it’s a diary, Fa, That’s how I write my diary) and stayed in bed for some time while Fafa cooked us Farmer’s breakfast. I so can get adjusted to this morning routine! After breakfast…
Keep ReadingI woke up from another day of excellent sleep a bit later than usual, but why not? After all, it’s my vacation day. So I pulled the card of the day ━ Page of Wands ━ and journaled a bit about it while updating my to-do list for the next two days and next…
Keep ReadingI might have jinxed it when I wrote about the most peaceful sleep I had in months on my first night here — because neither of us got much sleep yesterday, no thanks to the severe wind storm. It had started yesterday afternoon, but by midnight it was a full-blown storm. The whole house…
Keep ReadingAfter a 3-hour drive from Melbourne, going around almost four empty towns that reminded me of Timaru in New Zealand, we reached Echuca.…
Keep ReadingWe reached home a few hours ago after spending the weekend at the Captain’s Retreat, an Airbnb cottage in Mornington Peninsula.…
Keep ReadingGood morning from the Captain's Retreat - our Mornington Peninsula Airbnb for the weekend. I write while being enveloped in complete silence.…
Keep ReadingI am writing from our a cottage called Captain's Retreat, along the Mornington Peninsula.…
Keep ReadingConfession time: I have committed several travel sins, including not travelling for a long time to needing bathroom amnesties.…
Keep ReadingIt’s time to dip into the travel pool again ━ travelling as self-care, even if it means regional travel—or even day trips.…
Keep ReadingI have a dream to travel to all of Japan’s 47 prefectures by train and experience a bit of culture in each of the prefectures. I have travelled to 17 of the 47 prefectures (crossed on the below list), and a few I wouldn’t mind revisiting. When I got some free time (and am…
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