AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 | Views [63] | Comments [3]
Who would have thought I would make it this
far? If anyone other than me gave any thought to it, you have far too much time
on your hands and should try collecting stamps or something. My abacus must
have a virus because journal entry number ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 | Views [62]
I'm back in Broome. My house is full of
strangers. The weather is a hot liquid overcoat. I am no longer a underwater
porcelain technician. All of these facts painted a rather scary picture on my
return home. Particularly with the financial freedom ... Read more >
Tags: friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 30 Oct 2009 | Views [69]
Money can strangely lose all significance once you have
none. On the proviso that you have friends who will compromise their credit
rating on your behalf. When the universe deemed that the last $8 in my account
was superfluous to my needs, I am thankful ... Read more >
Tags: money
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 2 Oct 2009 | Views [128]
Its a sorry story when the best thing about
a place is leaving there. Even more so when it is only for two days. With a
weekend off for Rachel, and the 'Australia' movie shrines and Big
Mango sightings exhausted, we decided to venture further ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, friends
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Sep 2009 | Views [120] | Comments [1]
What drugs was I on when I thought of returning to Bowen? Anyone who reads my ramblings will be able to answer that question, but they won't win anything for their trouble. I drive around amazed that the fond memories I have of the place seem so far ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures, drugs, friends
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | Views [94]
4,500 kms is a long way to travel and I knew it was not going to be easy. Given that someone else flew the plane for me most of the way, the biggest strain was on my wallet. The 620 km driving stint I did was my most challenging task, but I still managed ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, friends, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 13 Sep 2009 | Views [114] | Comments [1]
Everybody needs holidays. Some of us need them more often than others. If I don't have a holiday every few months at least, I start entertaining thoughts of regicide. Everybody needs sex as well. If I don't have any sex for a few months at least, I ... Read more >
Tags: friends, money, misadventures, beaches & sunshine
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 | Views [93]
I can take my too-cool-for-school sunglasses off now because some of the shiny gloss has been taken off of Broome. I'm still as happy here as a four year old with a new toy. Or a forty year old. Familiarity breeds somehow, and its offspring is considered ... Read more >
Tags: friends, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 3 Aug 2009 | Views [108]
The effeminate air in this house is obviously starting to
have an effect on me. I'm not prepared to wear make up, gossip with
sacrilegious fervour or watch 'Dirty dancing' on a weekly basis yet. I have
developed an unhealthy obsession with Frangelico ... Read more >
Tags: friends, misadventures, sisterhood
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 20 Jul 2009 | Views [332]
You can't share a house with 8 women and not have delusions
about being the next Hugh Heffner. My playboy mansion might be disappointingly
short on silicon boobs, bikinis and bare bellies to snort coke off, but my bunnies
compensate by being genuinely ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Jul 2009 | Views [126]
I think Fate either fancies me, or she has a wicked and
cruel sense of humour. Finding house mates is never an easy task. Either no one
calls, or the people that do, spend the initial interview talking about their
knife collection and how they perfected ... Read more >
Tags: friends
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009 | Views [128]
If someone were to tell me that I have been in Broome for over three months now, I would call them a 'dirty, no good liar'. Then I would have to apologise profusely because apparently it is true. Over a month since my last journal, I find myself at a ... Read more >
Tags: friends, music, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [133]
If Broome has a short coming, it's that it's not a road trip. It's a bit too stationary for that. It's not actually a lot of things, like a toaster, philosophical thesis or belly button lint to list but a few. Most things obey the laws of physics and ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, misadventures, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [130]
Our first destination was the Bungle Bungle's. Knowing nothing of them prior and being given no clue by their name, we arrived with few expectations. Good thing too as it was night time when we finally made it. I was driving by then and ploughing through ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, misadventures, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [145]
I woke up before Lady Luck to find my tongue stuck in quicksand, my mind stuck in neutral and my pillow stuck to my face with drool. With BYO booze, my wallet had been a superfluous accompaniment to the night but had somehow managed to get lost in its ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, misadventures, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [195]
Soon after it was time to eat before the 4am dry heaves started 12 hours too early. We stopped at the Halls Creek roadhouse where everyone's name could have been Bates, Bundy or Manson for all I knew. Spratty took affront to Mr. Roadhouse's service ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, misadventures, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 4 May 2009 | Views [142]
I'm worried that I'll appear boastful if I
continue to write about just how good life is in Broome. Not that the place is
exclusively my domain, as the rapid increase in tourist numbers can attest to.
This party has an open invitation and I gladly ... Read more >
Tags: work, partying, friends
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Apr 2009 | Views [149]
So I got myself a job as a 'dishy'. Not exactly evolving in the vocational scheme of things. Particularly when it's in a brewery, a place that offers the chance of rapid intellectual devolving. Aside from the universe again providing exactly what I wished ... Read more >
Tags: work, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 8 Apr 2009 | Views [128]
Be careful what you wish for, some say, as
it may just come true. And then some! I am a firm believer in that principle as
life constantly confirms that my thoughts create my reality. But I seem to recall
it was a warmer climate I was pining for, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 4 Apr 2009 | Views [169]
I'm out West, and I know it. If I didn't,
most signs, businesses, and products have a reference to the 'West' in them.
We're not East Coast and we're damn proud of it! I can't see that as a good
enough reason to shoot someone, but I offer many thanks ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, shopping, people
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Mar 2009 | Views [152]
Farmers should quake whenever they see me approach their fields. I
have the cursed touch of Midas' evil twin. All harvesting work I do
carves through profits like a one man economic wrecking ball. I am
the best thing to happen to any farms ... Read more >
Tags: work, on the road, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 15 Mar 2009 | Views [188]
The train to Melbourne rattles soothingly along the tracks that carve
through a brown and barren Victorian countryside. The environment is
dried to the point of kindling combustibility, but it seems that luck
alone saved ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 15 Mar 2009 | Views [207]
The beach is definitely the best thing God came up with on day five of his universe-creating week of high achievement before he retired for good. Preparing to tackle such holy goodness at Cape Conran, I splashed out $25 on a boogie board of questionable ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, adrenaline, drugs
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Feb 2009 | Views [152]
Four days of work is a good enough
reason to have the whole following week off. It's not by choice, but
it fits in so nicely with my plans that I cannot believe my
subconscious desires did not play a part in it becoming a ... Read more >
Tags: work, beaches & sunshine, adrenaline
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [172]
After a fond farewell to our Canadian
duo, we high-tailed it out of Hobart leaving a Hansel and Gretel like
trail of money behind us. We planned to cover the state in four days
and were aware most of that would have to be ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, sight seeing, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [383] | Comments [1]
Port Arthur is Tasmania's most famous
spot for both good and bad reasons. 'Most famous' and 'good and bad'
being subjective evaluations. I must contend that Port Arthur, and
probably Tasmania, was relatively unknown to me ... Read more >
Tags: friends, beaches & sunshine, sight seeing
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [232]
The Apple Isle. A tasty destination if
ever I heard one. But as delicious as it sounds, the only people
licking their lips were the people catering to / cashing in on the
tourists. Towns are so small and devoid of business ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, misadventures, sight seeing
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [195] | Comments [1]
Rockhampton
may seem like an unusual destination for someone like me. Rockhampton
is actually quite an unusual destination for anyone. It doesn't have
much to offer travelers in the way of tourist sites. Anyone who would
be interested ... Read more >
Tags: friends, philosophy of travel
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | Views [258]
Easily
earned, easier spent. With no particular goal entertaining my
imagination, hoarding my savings seemed counter productive to me
personally solving the world economic crisis. Not much was happening
in Cairns, except for some hobo picking a fight ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, sight seeing, friends, relaxation, beaches & sunshine
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | Views [613]
With my left leg
now tattooed from ankle to knee, I'm starting to think that enough is
enough; maybe. Not that the tattoo addiction has subsided any. It's
just that I have lost faith in my ability to distinguish between a
talented artist and ... Read more >
Tags: misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008 | Views [401]
The last few weeks of my Spring time adventure in Bowen have passed in a blur of activity and hijinx. Sometimes it's better to just experience life as it happens rather than seeing it unfold from behind a camera lens or writers pen. Sometimes I'm ... Read more >
Tags: party time, friends, work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 | Views [263] | Comments [1]
6 night shifts in a row. A sudden and significant increase in temperature. Gauge measures 28.5 degrees in our dorm at 6am. Sleeping in daylight is 3 to 5 hours of fitful napping, punctuated by tossing, a constant sheen of sweat and loud room mates ... Read more >
Tags: work, party time, friends, misadventures
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Nov 2008 | Views [367]
No sooner had I removed the last vestige of grit from private anatomical nooks and crannies, when some manical party machine decided to organise another 'fill up on intoxicants and sand' event. Yes, it was the only two other remaining Australians ... Read more >
Tags: party time, friends, beaches & sunshine
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Nov 2008 | Views [320]
Isn't it funny how your opinion of a place improves when your workload changes from boot camp to boy scouts. One minute I am legging it to and fro like I've just discovered the ability to walk, and the next, I am lounging around working on my tan.... Read more >
Tags: work
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008 | Views [679] | Comments [1]
A party on the beach. A bright moon approaching fullness. A raging fire and oil lamps ablaze. Enough intoxicants to wipe out all consciousness in a five kilometre radius. A gathering of close friends and strangers from the hostel. A plethora of gorgeous ... Read more >
Tags: party time, friends, beaches & sunshine
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 19 Oct 2008 | Views [282] | Comments [1]
Literary
productivity has dipped recently as hard work and hedonistic
pleasures have superseded creative output and coherent thought. Some
cosmic governing body decreed that frivolity and fortune seeking was
my new karmic currency after over ... Read more >
Tags: friends, philosophy of travel, work
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [221]
Not much changes here and hence, there isn't much of interest to write about. My last rambling post is proof of my efforts to make something out of nothing. When something interesting happens, I usually rush to my laptop to describe it for the friends ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party time, misadventures, work
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [236] | Comments [1]
I admit I am not the most direct writer at the best of times. Everything I write takes the most circuitous route to the point I am trying to make. I like to write for the sake of seeing how much I can mangle the English language to make it vaguely ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [232] | Comments [1]
No mention of good people would be complete without reference to the Dalai Lama. Having mentioned him, I can continue on to say that a word or two about Shane and Ronan is necessary to complete said list of good folk. And Katharina too. But like ... Read more >
Tags: friends
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Sep 2008 | Views [295] | Comments [3]
Miss Karen D. was on the goon. Alarm bells were ringing. Nothing good ever comes from any situation that has a goon element. After the previous nights shenanigans, this post should have been titled 'Revenge of the Goon'. Even though I didn't touch ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party time
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