Sticker Shock Exactly one year from departing Australia, I returned to Adelaide on an overnight flight from Singapore. It was a beautiful March day - as most March days in Adelaide are - and I was excited to bring my trip full circle, as it were. Despite my lack of sleep the night before I was chatting enthusiastically to my Eritrean taxi driver as we left the airport to go to the city. As we left the airport, turning onto Sir Donald Bradman Drive (Adelaide...

I was probably looking to stir up sentiment, similar to how someone looks for meaning in their horoscopes (ahem) - but my trip from Adelaide to the airport and off to Sydney seemed to replay my 12 years of Australian experiences. Start at the Austral - a classic Adelaide pub, of course, where else to go for a last pint of pale. Then up O'Connell Street and past the Oxford, which we frequented about a decade ago and haven't been to since, and into Prospect - where...