Across the Nullarbor
The night before we left for the Nullabor, we ran again into Jeff at Cape Le Grand National Park. He is a landscape photographer from Minnesota, married to an Aussie girl, and travels this continent taking magnificent pictures of the grandeur. I had introduced myself to Jeff at Cape Leeuwin as he was packing up [...]
Roads Unknown
(Author’s note – Internet service is scattered and weak in most parts of Western Australia. I’m posting when I can. I am trying to update the two earlier pieces with some photos. – JM)
In the morning, we rode south to Cape Leeuwin, a long outcropping of rock that separates the Indian from the Southern Ocean. [...]
On the Loose (updated)
There is not language that I know to describe what it feels like to ride a motorcycle through a countryside you have never seen and every sight is new. The world feels specially made and customized for your personal enjoyment. In King’s Park, up above Perth, you look down across the broad Swann [...]
West with the Sun
I dreamed of Australia when I was a boy in Michigan. In one of my elementary classes, we had a book that had color pictures of kangaroos and the sun on the Outback as if it were a light that had no off switch. When we were freezing in the Lower Peninsula, and as the [...]
The Blessings and Burden of America
(Author’s note – the piece below was commissioned by The Sunday Independent of London. The piece was the leading article on the section front of the paper’s front page this Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010.)
“I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a [...]
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