Conventions And Conversions

IF YOU’RE NEW TO THE SITE, PLEASE READ THIS FIRST. I started this blog to write about my 2013 trip on the Trans-Mongolian Express. Its first expansion was to include my June 2012 trip to Malta. The momentum from that …

Then tell the Wind and Fire where to stop

It’s Road Scholar’s standard operating procedure to have each site coordinator distribute a paper with a summary of each day’s activities while the group is under their purview. I’ve found these helpful in reconstructing the trip for this blog. I …

the inscription on the baker’s shelves

For a second consecutive day, we’d be up before the sun. We had to be on the bus by 06:15 for the roughly two hour ride to Cape Jervis where we’d board the Sealink ferry for its 09:00 departure to …

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self

After enjoying the views, and spotting a superb fairywren, we descended from the top of Yuridla (Mount Lofty) following the same route we’d used in our ascent but once we reached the plain we’d proceed to the center of Adelaide …