So why Australia?

I guess I watched too much Crocodile Hunter and Crocodile Dundee. Frankly, who isn't enchanted with the land Down Under? Hopping marsupials. Giant Lizards and venomous everything. Devils Marbles and Ayer's Rock. Spectacular cityscapes where everyone is your mate. The oldest continual human society.
I had to see it.

So when the time came for me to travel out of the Americas for the first time, Australia was my first choice. There are a lot of places I'd like to see, but Oz has to be first.