Continuing travel notes from southern Australia. First order of business if you plan to camp in OZ is to buy a printed camping manual from “Make Trax” for all campgrounds, fee or free. If you don’t want to drag along […]
Kangaroo Island (KI) was one goal of this trip I managed to fulfill. After R&R at Venus Bay, I headed to Port Elliot (a few miles east of Victor Harbor) showgrounds RV camp. It is close to Cape Jervis and […]
South Australia is widely recognized as the driest state in Australia, which is itself the driest inhabited continent on Earth. BUT, not in 2026. Lake Eyre, normally dry, was filled to the brim, the first time since 1974. Relentless rain […]
Melbourne is a huge city, Australia’s second largest after Sydney. I stayed a couple of days which only gave me a quick taste of what Melbourne has to offer. From what I gathered, the city is more traditional than Sydney. […]
I love Australia, fondly referred to as OZ . Although they speak English and have a similar history to the US (except they never ditched the King), everything else is different…plants, birds, animals, geology, topography, etc. Craig and I have […]
If you are planning a Southwestern winter get-away camping adventure, I have a few suggestions of places to include. All have practically unlimited dispersed camping options except for Organ Pipe National Monument. We went in mid-March. From our Colorado start, […]
When Tito died in 1980, Slovenian dissatisfaction with the Serb-dominated government deepened. In 1987 Yugoslavia’s new de facto leader, Serbia’s Slobodan Miloševic, resolved to put an end to any talk of independence. Slovenia rebelled and in 1990, it voted to […]
Leaving Zagreb I snapped a couple shots of mundane parts of the city and surrounding area on our way to Opatija. Located at the very north end of the Adriatic Sea, just south of Trieste, Italy, lies the small […]
From the bus on our way to Zagreb in the upper north part of Croatia. Zagreb is the capital and largest city in Croatia. Over a million people live in the metropolitan area, a quarter of the population in Croatia. […]
Sarajevo’s history…The short version: Ruled at various periods, first by the Roman Empire and with its fall, the area became autonomous until 1463 when the Ottomans took over. When that empire fell, the region was given to Austria/Hungary which angered […]
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