Recent Comments
- Cheryll on old voices impelling me upward
- J on old voices impelling me upward
- J on I travel in a circle
- Todd C. on the light was playing on its surface
- Mary Buckley on the light was playing on its surface
Categories
- Arizona – Utah May and June 2017
- Australia – Fall 2024
- Balkans and Budapest 2016
- By Train From Beijing to Saint Petersburg 2013
- France – Performance Today Paris to Normandy and more Paris 2018
- Great River Road and More 2014
- Michigan October 2023
- My Stay in Malta – June 2012
- Olympic Host Cities & Me
- Other Trips
- Portugal Spring 2022
- Scotland and Scandinavia 2015
- South America 2019
- Two weeks in Lisbon 2022-23
- Uncategorized
- Vienna-Salzburg-Prague Spring 2022
- Western U.S. and Canada August and September 2017
- Winter in Lisbon 2023-2024
old voices impelling me upward
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Tarisse-King-and-Tegan-Hamilton-126x190.jpg
HEADNOTE: All artworks in this post appear courtesy of Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery. Special thanks to Kristie Linklater for granting permission. HEADNOTE 2: This overview is a superficial summary presented within the framework of my limited understanding. Now that we’ve …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
4 Comments
other things submerged
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_20241104_134752-142x190.jpg
Now we’re Cook-in Our next, and only remaining Off-train Experience came at the ghost town of Cook. Per the information on the Indian Pacific brochure, Cook sits 1138 kilometres from Adelaide and 1523 kilometres from Perth. The closest highway is …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
Leave a comment
I travel in a circle
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Australia-Indigenous-All-190x153.png
At the end of the previous post I wrote that although the relationship the Indigenous People of Australia have with Country is “similar to the relationship the Indigenous People of America had with their land, it is unlike it in …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
3 Comments
glimpses of buried treasure
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Indian_pacific_map.gif
Ride the train from Sydney to Melbourne and while you’ll have stops along the way at places named Broadmeadows, Seymour, and Campbelltown, you’ll also stop at Benalla, Wangaratta, Wagga Wagga, Junee, and Cootamundra. The frequency of stops and this mixture …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
Leave a comment
it could never be set right
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DSCN5230-190x143.jpg
It had been a fun day thus far but these morning activities were merely the preliminaries. After lunch we’d drive 20 minutes south and come to the site of the main event – the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park. …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
2 Comments