At 77, Brian Champion has lived in two worlds. Until he was 7 or 8, he lived with his parents — Kaprun people on Kaprun land. Their ancestors lived in their country (land) for ages. Not too long ago, DNA from a single lock of hair confirmed that…
Saeed has been in Kalgoorlie seeking a professional mining job for a week. He's got two cooking jobs in the meantime, after looking for work in 50 shops. I showed him his profile on this blog. "I was not aware of my effort until I read ab…
Like every one of the hundreds of hostels I've been to in my life, there's a mish mash of people in them, from all walks of life, doing all sorts of things. That's what I love about hostels. It's like a huge centrifuge: You don'…
El Sauce, Nicaragua. A friend recently asked if it pays to be a good person. Yes. I think so. Yes. I do my best to do so and feel like I get paid back for it in the amazing experiences i have and the people I meet. If you really feel like you don&…
Driving the Golden Pipeline heritage trail 600KM from Perth to Kalgoorlie, you go by a lot of small typically western Aussie towns. In this one, there were two automobiles that "didn't make it," as my mom says when there's roadki…
I'm in Australia, helping to preserve three Aboriginal languages and tell the story of three mobs (tribes). Am I REALLY learning life, culture and other stories from the last fluent Ngalia speaker on earth? The last fluent Kaalamaya speaker O…
Traveling solo, I usually never have photos as keepsakes for myself. It's great to be sent some from Eduardo Sousa, whose family was lovely to spend three days with at Selenkay Conservancy in Kenya. I'm especially glad he took some of me a…
There is a lot of gold mining in western Australia. That's why Kalgoorlie is here. Workers pull 800,000 ounces of gold a year out of the Super Pit, the largest open pit gold mine in Australia, which will eventually stretch 3.6 kilometres long,…
People tell me things. Not just for the reporting I do, in which I am asking people to reveal their most intimate thoughts and details, but in bars, on streets … Maybe people with something to share can read my genuine interest. I don’t know, but ……
