It lives....or at least I do

yes, good people, this is the new blog, and I am indeed typing these brief words from the underside of the globe, almost dead-center in the middle of that left-by-itself-its-entire-childhood oddity known as Australia.

(as a similarly conditioned oddity, of course I'm sympathetic)

within a few days, expect photos and limpidity on wild dingoes sniffing my face while I tried to sleep on a bedroll sans-tent in the outback; on Uluru, the great aboriginal icon (and much more); and on my probably overactive honkiphobia. 

for now, a pic of where I am: 

The at-times-aptly-named (but not always) Australian "Red Center"