AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Nov 2008 | Views [4961]
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: beaches & sunshine, friends, party time
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 1 Nov 2008 | Views [2108]
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 [5881] | 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: beaches & sunshine, friends, party time
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 19 Oct 2008 | Views [1748] | 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pleasures have superseded creative output and coherent thought.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 [1318]
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, misadventures, party time, work
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [1166] | 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 [1118] | 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 [1680] | 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
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Sep 2008 | Views [1267]
How do I manage to keep working in this tomato packing torture shed? The most likely cause is the amazing group of people I have had the good fortune to meet. Like abused siblings we rally together to help each other see the lighter side of working ... Read more >
Tags: friends, party time, work
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 15 Sep 2008 | Views [1737]
Is money enough reason to drive yourself harder than your body is able to handle without falling apart? The first toe nail of the season has already been cut off, eulogised, and appropriately interred in a garbage bin. My feet are more blister than ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 6 Sep 2008 | Views [469] | Comments [1]
It's winter in Bowen. Apparently. Wearing just two articles of clothing is one too many in the 'winter' sun. I'm sun burnt already. And I worked nights in a tomato packing shed. Did I get burnt sleeping in my dorm bed? Or in the brief trips I had just ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 6 Sep 2008 | Views [1178]
At the premature
end to my first nights sleep in Airlie Beach's Bush Village
backpackers, I was awoken by a guy looking for a drinking partner,
duties to start immediately. I hadn't celebrated my arrival in Airlie
so enthusiastically ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 | Views [1751]
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 >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 | Views [1168]
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 >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008 | Views [764] | 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 >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008 | Views [759] | 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 >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 8 Sep 2007 | Views [1546] | 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!
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 | Views [1090] | 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
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 | Views [1883] | 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
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 24 Aug 2007 | Views [1702] | 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
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [984]
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
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [2691] | 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!
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 Aug 2007 | Views [1160]
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
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [1199] | 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
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [3418]
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
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