Locums for a Small World Blog

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Where can you ski and surf on the same day? (Hint: it's like no other)

In Tasmania you won't run away from your problems, you'll bike.

The kea: the cheeky bird New Zealanders love to hate

Bubba Gump may know shrimp, but Aussies know yabbies

Don’t put all your (chocolate) bilbies in one basket

The incredible (edible) boab

Put Wanaka at the top of your Wanderlist

Five Aussie inventions that changed the world

An eccentric shop owner...a mysterious dame...intrigue...a must-read!

70 years later, Darwin is an all-new frontline; just ask Dr. Starkey.

Call Stradivari for a violin; termites for a didjeridu.

To the boatload of Scots who disembarked in Tasmania, thanks for golf.

Picasso and Pollack walk into a museum in Australia...

Locum here and you'll never get your head out of the clouds

A harness, a helmet & a nappy.... Name 3 things you should take to New Zealand.

Traveling as a locum? There's a camera for that.

From the Top End of Down Under, it's a new year with Dr. Starkey.

Pack up your tucker bag! ‘Tis the season for Australian edibles.

Tasmania: Where pademelons run amok and Boag's beer is magically brewed

Kerouac’s got nothing on this cross-country adventure

Hydrate, prep the kids for pat downs & other tips for holiday travel.

Spectacular swirls in the Australian nighttime sky

The fish are abundant. The lifeguards are female. It's not a dream, it's Tallebudgera Beach.

Finally - once again - black becomes gold!

Gents, return the Rugby World Cup to our shores

You can't rain on Dr. Starkey's locum parade (well, maybe during the wet season)

Warning: The turquoise waters and red dirt of Ningaloo will seduce you.

Put the bottom of the north at the top of your list

Flash mob in Auckland at seven. Do you haka?

It's "game on" for music, theater, food & more. Oh, and rugby, too.

One if by land, two if by sea: RWC2011 is here!

Great ball of fire?! Meet Australia’s master of light and exposure photography.

Rugby World Cup 2011: Some footie, a cuppa and a stadium of four million

Omaka is not a museum, it's an experience

You can take the Dane out of New Zealand, but you can't take the Kiwi out of the Dane

5 far-out spots to spend the dog days of summer

Crikey, Cadel! Grit powers “Old Man Evans” to Australia’s first Tour de France Victory

Peter Bush, Hard on the Heels of the All Blacks

Aussie film festivals get a big thumbs up

Why do you move around? The MD from MD answers the burning question about locums.

Locum off the grid: Find yourself in Alaska’s famed Inside Passage

Emperor of New Zealand: Happy Feet finds fame a long, long way from home

Leaving New Zealand: The Taylors say so long to feijoa fruit, friends & more

Ta moko: Don't take this tattoo art at face value

Traveling as a locum? There’s an app for that.

Kiwi locums are atwitter over their fair-feathered friend

Locums are sussing out the ski fields Down Under

Beer me, America: 5 microbrewery tours you don't want to miss

Dr. Starkey bids farewell to Tasmania: her own piece of heaven on earth

Pack up your cats & dogs - New Zealand introduces new animal import laws!

Nirvana, maybe. Kiwiana, definitely.

Five things to add to your Australia locum list

Locums: did you hear the one about the goat, the hippies and the old Protestant church?

Locums: You know you're in Christchurch when...

The locum guide to architecture, iconic watering holes and the best damn pancakes in California

Locums: tell the hairs standing on the back of your neck it's called the HAKA

Locum tenens help quake victims in Christchurch

From knock 'em downs to beasts & billabongs: The 6 seasons of Kakadu

Five locum cities for fine foodie fare

Five gotta-have gadgets for every locum traveler

A locum plan to “get amongst it” in New Zealand

The Australian Open in Melbourne, a sweet spot for locum tennis fans

From Port Arthur to the petting zoo, more locum tales from Dr. Starkey

Locum tenens raise a glass to another vintage year in New Zealand

Forget the milk and cookies: hokey pokey's what it's all about in New Zealand

Locum in a Winter...er...Summer Wonderland

Australia locums: Quick, name that creature!

Locums: Lance Armstrong rides again in Rotorua

Wellington: New Zealand’s Locum Capital of Cool

Why locum in Colorado? It's no great mystery.

A locum tenens guide to speaking 'New Zillund'

Locums: Meet Australia's rebel with some claws

Southern California: The happiest place to locum

Locums take a walk on the wild side

A bite of Tasmania: Another locum adventure with Dr. Starkey

Locums: Why did the Cassowary cross the road?

Locums: 'Tis the season for tailgating

Locum lore: favorite 5 stories revisited

Now casting: Locum anglers, part II

Ta moko: A rite of passage for any New Zealand locum tenens

Now casting: Locum anglers

Locum surfers: You should have been here yesterday

Locum cavers take to the underground in Oz

Locums: Don’t adjust your "telly"- it’s all black and white in NZ

Minnesota: Land of lakes, loons and locum tenens

All work and no play makes Bentch a dull doctor

For your next locum adventure, look to the skies

Locum Tennis: Advantage Australia

"Mister" Bentch goes to NZ: A locum Down Under, Part II

New Zealanders are dreaming of an All White World Cup

Slow down and locum in the prune-popping, hippie-loving California Sutter Buttes

Retired doctor sets sail in Caribbean, but locum winds blow him to New Zealand

Locum in Oregon? There’s more than one reason to “just do it”

Locum tenens doctor 'tossed by the wind' in New Zealand & Oz

3 reasons Western Nevada will tickle your locum tenens ribs

Some see a hillside, locum tenens see a thrillride

Protect Mother Nature: take a locum traveler’s Hippocratic Oath

There's an opportunity in every difficulty, says Dr. Francina Hoffman

Biplanes, sky swings, yacht races & jet boats: it's all in a locum day's work

8 surprising things you'll love about locuming in New York

Locum tenens and curling: from misunderstood to the next big thing

Locum tenens: fewer than 6 degrees of separation from Olympic Gold

Doctor MacKenzie, I presume? A locum tenens guide to golf courses in Australia

Locum where the Rough Riders rode and "Easy Rider" became a touchstone for a generation

Locum Here and Enjoy the 7 Wonders of Illinois

Packing for a locum Down Under: forget the fear & loathing

Bigger than life in Bemidji, and yes, you can locum here

From tall trees, to deep caves, to fine wines: more adventures with locum doc Starkey

Locum Doctor Down Under: On kayaks, clams, kitsch and being first to ring in the New Year

How one lonely woman inspired the most treasured Australian holiday tradition

Two words that are bound to fire up a New Zealander

Why one locum stint in New Zealand will never be enough

What locum tenens jobs in Alabama have to do with a magazine called Garden & Gun

Forget the Turkey: Try Some Bush Damper & Morten Bay Bugs

It's a Wonderful Locum Life in Upstate New York

7 sure-fire tips for would-be Kiwi drivers

Australia's Red Center: Where fly netting is fashionable, women ride camels & the stars are otherworldly

Not surprisingly, the country that's home to the world's best golf caddy has some of the world's best golf courses

Where roses "riot" and the rain brings a new crop of waterfalls

Locum Tenens in Tasmania: One Devil of a Time

Where Mother Nature sings the blues in color

Locum doc spots Elvis in New Zealand

The daily concert outside my window

Never anger a male cassowary, and other lessons from a bird-loving South African locum

My locum adventures 'beyond the black stump'

It's a long way from Biddeford to the Top of the North

Little known ways to discourage a water buffalo and other tips from a rural Aussie locum

Platypus, echidnas and emus, oh my!