Coming from Australia, New Zealand is familiar, but also oddly different. One obvious difference is the size of the lumps. The landscape here looks a bit like Australia, only stretched, like someone scaled a picture on Photoshop…
Travelers Dilemma ( #2 ) Sometimes you stumble into a place and it’s beauty makes you feel as if you could spend the rest of your life there. Paradoxically, if you followed those sort of impulses you would not be a traveler and you would not have discovered the place you yearn to remain in.…
Shannon loves big rocks. When we drove past Karlu Karlu, she had to stop and risk her neck clambering all over them. I took pictures from a safe distance. White people named Karlu Karlu “The Devils Marbles”. It’s easy to see why. It must have seemed like a place straight out of the old testament…
We went out to Cedar Bay to visit my old mate Wilson the basketball. It’s a 17 kilometre hike to Cedar Bay, through the national park. No roads. You get there by foot or on a boat. This place is nice and quiet. Shannon and I took about 8 hours to do the hike because…
…My left knee jams under the accelerator grip, and the next thing I know, I’ve lost power, lost my balance and I’m toppling, slowly and gracelessly toward the ground. A group of monks are laughing at me uproariously. I pick myself up with Buddhist humility, and ride slowly and carefully out the temple gate… Flashback:…
“There is a hungry old wolf, lives in this wood. Better you should be home now that night has fallen, for he may smell your young blood on the breeze…
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…The sun shines and life is exciting and challenging. The people of ‘B’ look at you with curious eyes. You are an outsider. You feel exotic. You take pictures, post feverishly to Facebook, walk the streets wide eyed… Getting from ‘A’ to ‘B’. It’s the essence of travel. ‘A’ is a place where the weather…