Just thought I’d let those of you who are subscribers know that I have not abandoned this blog. I’m just in the midst of a maelstrom of work — a big project for National Geographic and a book for the University of Illinois Press, plus my speaking career is really beginning to take off. So blogging has had to take a temporary back seat. But I still have loads to share with you, and I’ll be back with more tales from my travels in the land Down Under.