Funny…I write this post about arrival upon departure.  It’s a strange moment in which I find myself; literally suspended in time and space.  The sun just rose and turned the sky above the Great Barrier Reef delightful shades of pinks and oranges as we banked over fluffy clouds and watched the coastline of mountains and […]

It was a gloomy breaky to be sure.  All of us had the end-of-the-trip blues. We’ve taken enough trips together to see it coming, however, and put some speed bumps in place. But before I tell you about the end, I have to go back to the beginning.  At the beginning of our trip, knowing […]

Woke up to our usual lovely breakfast set out for us by our new friend, Ida, a native Australian who quickly became my friend as she called me a good girl every morning and knew exactly how I liked my breakfast.   She told me a story about how in 1997 she and her husband […]