title: Vagabonding With Kids: Australia: You Can't Ride a Dingo - True Tales from the Land Down Under
author:  AK Turner 
description: AK Turner is the New York Times bestselling author of This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask, and Hair of the Corn Dog. Her works have received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, an IPPY Award for Humor, and been named in BookLife's Top 5 Indie Books of 2014. She is a contributor to the anthologies Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana (Traveler's Tales), Little White Dress (Mill Park Publishing), and I Just Want to Be Alone (Throat_Punch Books). Her work has been featured online at Scary Mommy, In the Powder Room, The Huffington Post, Nickmom, Felicity Huffman's What the Flicka?, and Artocratic, among others, and in a variety of print publications. She is a former humor columnist, founded ''The Writers' Block'' on Radio Boise, hosted the ''Tales of Imperfection'' podcast, serves on the board of the Idaho Writers Guild, and speaks at conferences and in live comedy events. A former Writer-in-Residence for the City of Boise, she lives in Idaho with her husband and two children, but travels frequently as a part-time digital nomad. Her next series focuses on parenting humor and travel.
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  CHAPTER I. LANCASTER GATE, LONDON, W
  
  CHAPTER II. THE RAINHAMS
  
  CHAPTER III. PLAYING TRUANT
  
  CHAPTER IV. COMING HOME
  
  CHAPTER V. THE TURN OF FORTUNE'S WHEEL
  
  CHAPTER VI. SAILING ORDERS
  
  [CHAPTER VII. THE WATCH
  DOGS](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_001.html#filepos163252)
  
  [CHAPTER VIII. HOW TOMMY BOARDED A STRANGE
  TAXI](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_001.html#filepos183402)
  
  [CHAPTER IX. THE WELCOME OF
  AUSTRALIA](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_001.html#filepos222387)
  
  [CHAPTER X. BILLABONG](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_001.html#filepos262944)
  
  [CHAPTER XI. COLONIAL
  EXPERIENCES](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_001.html#filepos293994)
  
  [CHAPTER XII. ON INFLUENZA AND
  FURNITURE](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_002.html#filepos343140)
  
  [CHAPTER XIII. THE HOME ON THE
  CREEK](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_002.html#filepos384051)
  
  [CHAPTER XIV. THE CUNJEE
  RACES](Back%20to%20Billabong_split_002.html#filepos414052)
  
  [CHAPTER XV. HOW WALLY ROD