If you are going to write about travel then from time to time you have to travel.
And since I’m not a great multitasker I shall travel first and write after.
See you when I get back from Japan.
Not a lot of wallabies in Japan, you say … it’s Aussie slang,the first use in this context (that I can find) dates to 1849. It means to journey from place to place. In 1891 Henry Lawson gave us this …
Australia’s a big country
An’ Freedom’s humping bluey,
An’ Freedom’s on the wallaby
Oh! don’t you hear ‘er cooey?
bobmcgee 