A Wanderful Life

Around The World and Around The Neighbourhood Travel Adventures

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Ducks In A Row

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

And no, I don’t mean the wild ducks swimming happily in the lake in our front paddocks. We’re well and truly engaged in the ducks-in-a-row stages of preparing to depart from Australia.

My apologies for the lack of updates lately, but the reasons are many and varied and include the new release of one book and a release of a 3rd edition of another one plus lots of other writing assignments.

We finally have the darling house on the market, but the prep stages prior to listing took SO much longer than we had expected and had us quite frazzled. Now I can happily report that we have begun packing books and deciding what furniture to keep while we wait for the agent to work his magic and I will be contacting ticket agents in the next week for preliminary pricing.

Since I am shifting back to journalism and photojournalism, I will be uploading articles and photo essays as often as I can while still ticking off items on the moving to-do list. It’s going to be a finely tuned balancing act!

But there will be exciting new places to examine, new people to meet, and new events to cover in the coming months and I am quite looking forward to those challenges. Big Old World — here we come again!

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Coming Soon — City Breaks and Country Jaunts

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Flinders Street Railway Station - Melbourne

Coming up over the next few weeks — City Breaks and Country Jaunts in Victoria, Australia.

Watch for them!

Lakeside in Daylesford, Victoria

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Dreaming and Planning

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Two years ago? Has it really been two years ago since I registered this domain name and began to prepare for an around the world trip?

We had a plan — sell our small acreage instead of building a house on it, put all of our household goods in storage, and go around the world whilst working in a variety of jobs and countries along the way. Then we’d come home to Australia and buy another house. Sounds pretty good, eh — pretty straightforward?

Life didn’t cooperate with our plans and the real estate listing expired with no sale. All of our ideas went on hold for awhile and we went back to our day to day life. But we never stopped dreaming of that big overseas trip — all the while enjoying several smaller ones around Australia.

Kangaroo Warning Sign in Tasmania

The village where we live in Central Victoria in Australia is a gorgeous and historical gold mining site from the 1800s and I’ll include pictures of some of our local sites in a future post. We’ve loved living here and we are currently in the final stages of construction, an addition actually, onto the little eco-cottage that we built on our wee farm. But as we come closer to completion, those plans and dreams have percolated to the surface again and we are back to planning the around the world trip.

We love Australia and our life and friends here — but it’s time for a change. There are lots of reasons including health issues — but the bottom line is that serious change is afoot and 2010 will be the year for the REALLY BIG TRIP!

I will update this site during the coming year as things progress towards departure.

But in the meantime, I will begin by posting stories from our travels around Australia — a beautiful and varied country that everyone should visit at least once during their lifetime. We have been very blessed to live here!

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