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I ❤️ quests, public lands, travel adventures, & #OptOutside ✹ Created #GoQuesting + OnePhoto.Club ✹ Visited all 431 National Parks 🌵 Most posts here are syndicated from my micro.blog at rsjon.es, but I see comments.
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Life in 2025: it costs $3 more to have our bed comforter cleaned than to just buy a new one. 🧐🤨

This morning’s thought after being in foreign lands for more than three months: DRIVE ON THE RIGHT, SCOTT, DRIVE ON THE RIGHT 🚙👉😂

Welp, due to “recent events,” we had to abruptly and prematurely end our trip, and frantically race ourselves back to the US. The sun has set on our adventure, but we’ll get caught up with more photos and posts this week.

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Our last night in the campervan: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/22/our-last-night-in-the.html

Although we are currently sitting on the beach waiting for the Australian Blue Penguins to come ashore, I found this guy hiding under the boardwalk! -J 🇦🇺

Because it wouldn’t be a Scott roadtrip without a stop at some sort of roadside oddity or “World’s Largest” thing… -S 🇦🇺

A12 #ParkChat After eleven years at @Twitter and @X tonight we are announcing that beginning next week we will be conducting the chat exclusively on the @Bsky.app @naturetechfam.bsky.app and I are thrilled to be here. My apologies but I just noticed that this didn’t post during #ParkChat

Given our experience roadtripping around Australia, I can only assume that the word “kangaroo” is an ancient aboriginal term for roadkill. -S 🇦🇺

How do you deal with a sinkhole (or two) in the middle of your town? Well, you make them into garden parks! -S 🇦🇺 https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/19/how-do-you-deal-with.html

So @tthrash.bsky.social…new state borders quest? 🤔

Approximately half of our conversations while campervanning here in Australia are about what we should do about getting/building our own campervan-like adventuremobile back in the US. 😂

The Great Ocean Road: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/18/the-great-ocean-road.html

The branches/needles on this tree appear to grow….upward?! -J 🇦🇺

Parliament House, Canberra: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/18/parliament-house-canberra.html

Love this sundial mural in the tiny town of Foster -S 🇦🇺

We had an excellent afternoon of wildlife viewing along the Koala Trail yesterday. More photos and video to come! -S 🇦🇺

Street art in Canberra -S 🇦🇺

Tonight’s campsite views. -S 🇦🇺

We stopped to stretch our legs on the East Gippsland Rail Trail and to check out O’Grady’s Bridge, one of the old wooden rail trellises. This one dates to 1916, and the line was closed in 1987. -S 🇦🇺

Genoa Creek Falls, Croajingalong National Park 🇦🇺

Carrington and Fitzroy Falls: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/15/carrington-and-fitzroy-falls.html

Preparing for the wedding. #the100pics

Royal National Park and Grand Pacific Drive: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/15/royal-national-park-and-grand.html

Rock pools: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/15/rock-pools.html

Blue Mountains National Park: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/14/blue-mountains-national-park.html

Other Sydney Sites: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/14/other-sydney-sites.html

Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney: https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/14/hyde-park-barracks-in-sydney.html

Australia does not suck to visit.

Look at the size of those feet! An Australian Purple Swamphen. -J 🇦🇺

Shadow stripes #the100pics

Trailside litter #the100pics

We finally found a great brewery! We had already enjoyed a pour of Mountain Culture Brewing in Sydney, later grabbing some cans from the liquor store for our campervan. But yesterday we found the actual source! The sign does not lie. We may have even snagged a few additional cans as well. -S 🇦🇺

🎶 Break on through to the other side 🎶 #the100pics

Wollumai Lookout, Blue Mountains National Park https://adventuresaroundthe.world/2025/02/12/wollumai-lookout-blue-mountains-national.html

Step by step, follow the path #the100pics

We’ve secured our campervan, grabbed some supplies, and made it to our first campsite in Blue Mountains National Park near Sydney. It’s best to grab a site with power the first night to fully charge up the house battery, and we opted for one with a private bathroom/shower. We’re here for 2 nights.

We explored Sydney today—day 80 of our trip. These last 3 weeks seem like its own little vacation. Tomorrow we pick up our campervan to explore a bit more of the country, heading towards Melbourne for 11 days. And then it’s on to French Polynesia for a week. Somehow, we still have 7 flights left!