Mark & Jen's 'Around the World' Travel & Photography Blog

Hello! Well, the blog isn’t dead, yet. After returning to Denver last summer, Jen and I returned to our previous jobs. We bought a home (something about staying in a different place every other night), now own a dining room table and patio furniture, but honestly, the most luxurious item is still our very own [...]

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Have you ever read The Thornbirds or perhaps seen the movie? Imagine a 152,000 acre sheep station in the middle of the Australian Outback. Built in the 1930’s (the original homestead having burnt down), corrugated tin roofs cover plywood-thin walls. 3,000 sheep (and what seems like a similar number of kangaroos) call this place home, [...]

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Mark’s health continued to improve slowly, so we made our way to Karijini National Park. Maintained by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, the park hosts sacred spiritual sites of the Aboriginal people. Crystal-clear pools of water at the bottom of gorges juxtapose dramatically with the endless, arid desert surrounding the park. After camping out under [...]

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A manta ray glides silently by in the turquoise-green water, flapping its arms as gently as a butterfly. A silver fish leaps out of the water, creating an arch in the sunlight. A few glass-bottom boats sail off in the distance. They are full of eager tourists in search of whale sharks and manta rays [...]

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“You need a visa to enter Australia. Where is your visa?”
We made it a total of 25 miles in our 39,000 journey before we encountered our first hiccup. With a row of our bookshelf already devoted to Lonely Planet travel books, we had decided to forego purchasing the book for Australia – after all, it’s [...]

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