Metal Down and Under

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I hope you’ll forgive me, but I’m going to digress temporarily from one of my great passions (travel) to another (music). You see, a few weekends ago Brisbane played host to the Soundwave Festival and it totally rocked my socks.

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Golden Dodo of the Orient

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It was a monumental decision – good friends Cassie, Diko and myself would travel to Nepal to tackle one of the worlds most famous of adventures; the presumably gruelling thirteen day trek to Mt Everest base camp. Cassie would celebrate

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Yeah, that just happened.

It was damn tough to be back at work; my previous post certainly indicates that my frame of mind wasn’t all that crash-hot once I settled back into the normality of the daily grind. Time helped make things more tolerable,

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Normality? F**k That…

The dream, sadly, was over. Twelve months of travel was now behind me, and I was crossing the Pacific en route to home in Brisbane, Australia. Friends, family and a job awaited me. I should have been happy right? The

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Open Mind – Enquire Within

Sometimes in my idle moments, I wonder exactly what type of person would leave behind their jobs, families and friends to work in a ski resort on the other side of the world. Crazy? Determined? Inspired? Desperate? I quickly found

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On Wings and Prayers (Part 2)

Until this point, our day had been depressingly average. Planning on spending the day carousing around Boston, instead we found our hopes cruelly dashed on the rocks of bad timing – the biggest spectator event of the year, the Boston

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On Wings and Prayers (Part 1)

It’s a damn funny thing, memory. You look back down the timeline, and find it full of amazing highs and despairing lows. Funny, because in reality, those ups and downs are but slight deviations from normality; they are a small

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The Proverbial Minute

I argued long and hard with myself as to whether I would commit my thoughts of New York to this blog. I intended to pen an opus dedicated to this most amazing of cities, but instead became stricken with a

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Lost Inside the Beltway

The day dawned grey and wet; I was gradually and grudgingly awakened to the sound of ceaseless rain, thrumming rhythmically on the hotel window. I looked outside, bleary eyed and lethargic, with a quickly sinking heart. Any other time and

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Tube Fast, Tube Furious

It stands to reason that in the second biggest ski resort in British Columbia, there are a lot of jobs. From Administration to Housekeeping to Lift Operations and hundreds more, there are a veritable truckload of staff that contribute to

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