June 30, 2013 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IMG_0719-128x190.jpg

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 …

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April 2, 2025 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DSCN5490-190x143.jpg

(You got to get back to the land.) It’s a new morning in Kakadu and we have one final activity (or as RS calls it a “Field trip class”) in the park before we board our bus for the three-hour …

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March 31, 2025 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DSCN5449-190x110.jpg

If you’re wondering why I’m starting this post with a picture of the swimming pool outside my room at the Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel. The answer is that it’s the closest picture among the thousands I took that relates to …

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March 28, 2025 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DSCN5434-190x143.jpg

The seasons are different in Australia. I can almost hear all my northern hemisphere friends thinking something along the lines of, “Well, duh! Of course the seasons are different. Everyone knows that when it’s summer in the north it’s winter …

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