Australia
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Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 | Views [1753]
Australia's latest music sensation, by my patriotic reckoning, is Perth band Karnivool. Touring around our great land for probably better reasons than me just wanting them to, they hit Melbourne in late April. The beginning of the six month period when ... Read more >
Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 | Views [1170]
Surely there was more to my last eight months than dubious forms of income, and even more dubious forms of expenditure. They may not have been very travel related, unless occasionally driving around the suburbs is considered traveling. Seeing as I continue ... Read more >
Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008 | Views [766] | Comments [2]
We were at my Uncles farm for two days to help him harvest his grape crop. For better or worse, my Uncle and Aunt had me pegged as a thorough waste of molecules since an early age and I was determined to prove them I had some nous. Nousnessly, (A new ... Read more >
Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008 | Views [761] | Comments [3]
I'm back. It took me awhile to get over the messy break up with my last laptop, but I am ready to get on with my writing life. Backing up after every third word typed may seem somewhat superfluous. I deemed it to be necessary after exhausting every ... Read more >
Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 | Views [1549] | Comments [2]
Good ole Melbourne. Just when I rule it out as a place I would ever want to live again, it gives me just cause to reconsider the virtue of that oft repeated declaration. Then as soon as I do, it ridicules my particularly curious habit of always wanting ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 | Views [1096] | Comments [1]
All they saw was our dust, gently settling on the dry chemical foam from the fire hydrants I had let off the night before. I was laughing from the moment Jess and Nina set fire to the oven (An unrelated event to my snow fall in a tropical winter) till ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 | Views [1885] | Comments [1]
So back off home it was. I was freed up for more rascalities when Rus chose to pursue the only single woman there that I had felt vaguely attracted to. The current terminal state of my libido meant that the attraction was based purely on reaching a ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | Views [1705] | Comments [2]
The Oasis Berries Farm. All dreams must end! Sooner or later. A widow wakes to the empty sheets her dearly departed just held her sleeping in. A drunk wakes to the cold concrete reality of not being invincible, choking with the dry horrors and full ... Read more >
Tags: work
Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [989]
Thanks to another act of environmental carnage, the Oasis Berry Farm has proven itself to be a great example of everything a Right Livelihood should not be. Not that the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood, or earning a living through moral ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [2693] | Comments [1]
Thanks to the work here necessitating substantial amounts of contact with the main red neck who runs the second farm, it was unavoidable that his ideology would influence me in some way. After politely enquiring of me, “What the fuck do you have going ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Sunday, 5 Aug 2007 | Views [1164]
Oh Fate, the evil temptress! After oppugning my vitriolic words on our welfare state, she graciously rewarded me with $324, for no discernable reason other than a thank you for finding work. Okay Fate in this instance is just Little Johnny Howard playing ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [1203] | Comments [3]
Is their something intrinsically wrong with a government that offers its citizens a 'baby bonus' that encourages a 10 year old girl to become pregnant to her Mothers de facto partner and 'earn' another $5,000 for their household? Is there something ... Read more >
Tags: People
Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [3420]
Life joyfully rolls on for the two amigos slaving away at a one day on, two days off schedule. Thankfully the pay is good enough to allow a decent lifestyle even with such limited work hours. That is of course on the rare occasions we get paid the right ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Wednesday, 25 Jul 2007 | Views [1339]
After another full day in the fields, and by that I mean 7am to 2pm, we have been given another two days off. Talk about easing yourself back into things. Praise be to beer that I have plenty of time to sit around and nurse my injuries. I have three ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Thursday, 19 Jul 2007 | Views [2171] | Comments [1]
Time off! Who would have thought it was just for the deserving? After staring down the barrel of work, which by definition is so back breaking that I sweat and cramp up at the thought of it, Adam, I, and 90% of the Oasis Farms workforce is being spared ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Thursday, 19 Jul 2007 | Views [1811] | Comments [1]
Employment! Who ever thought it was just for the unlucky? After staring down the barrel of work so back breaking that I sweat and cramp up at the thought of it, it seems both Adam and I will spared from such hardship. After a long, arduous and challenging ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [1158]
21 minutes of another reality. Where? Inside my own mind! How did this amazing event come to pass, you may ask? And I will answer under the assumption that you did indeed ask. Before I do though, I must explain that before meeting Adam and Gemma, I ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, sightseeing
Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [10188] | Comments [1]
Regretting the decision not to do an actual interview with Albert, I failed to take down the names of the plants Albert showed to me. The names are readily available to all who are interested, so listing them here could incriminate me as supplying information ... Read more >
Tags: drugs, party time
Friday, 29 Jun 2007 | Views [1628] | Comments [1]
Who would have thought that a weather report could be so influential on travel plans? Possibly influential at least, to people so inclined to read such things. Had I have been less otiose and looked into the prevailing conditions, I would have been ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Friday, 29 Jun 2007 | Views [1169]
It was 1am, and I was listening to Stabbing Westward (A band name that is as charming in its impression, as it is capricious in its meaning) sing a song called 'Save yourself'. Being alert at that time of night, instead of dead to the world by 9pm, ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
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Friday, 29 Jun 2007 | Views [1170]
Is a travel journal permitted to encompass aspects of life that are in no discernible way related to traveling? Moot point really, considering yours truly has undertaken a degree of movement that, it shall be revealed, is irrefutable proof of traveler ... Read more >
Tags: Family
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