Want to get away from it all? You can't get much farther than Western Australia

A dispatch from Perth, Australia, a "deeply rewarding" destination that's 13 time zones and a day's flight from the United States. Yeah, that's remote.

Aren Elliott surveys Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Australia.

It's the year of the far-cation, and almost no place is farther from the United States than Western Australia.

Perth, Western Australia's capital, is halfway around the world from the East Coast. To get there from Washington, D.C., you'll spend a day on a plane and endure a mind-bending 13-hour time…