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Most people who write about Alice Springs are describing a place they visited for a week. I am describing a place I lived in for nearly three years, from March 1987 through December 1989, and have never quite left, even decades later. My wife and I are planning to go back next year. We still […]
Alice Springs, Northern Territory: Notes From Someone Who Called It Home Read More »
The first thing you see when the plane descends toward Hobart, Tasmania, is the mountain. Not the harbor, not the colonial streetscape, not the waterfront that every travel summary leads with. Mount Wellington. It sits above the city at 1,271 meters, and from the air it looks as if it has not yet decided whether
Hobart, Tasmania: What the Island Capital Keeps Revealing Long After You Leave Read More »