Monthly Archives: March 2025

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 …

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 …

Today, after two brief stops, one planned and one a bit of a surprise, we’re leaving Kangaroo Island and will be back on the mainland where we’ll remain together as a group for 12 more days. However, that won’t be …

Sometimes the difficulties of taking photos from a moving bus are a bit of a boon. We left the Kangaroo Island Animal Park and drove west through Flinders Chase National Park. Although the landscape wasn’t utterly barren and it’s said …

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 …