Six Things To Do Before You Celebrate Australia Day
Smear your cheeks with red, white and blue paint. Crack open a Coopers Ale and line up a backyard cricket pitch. Flaunt your Southern Cross constellation tattoo under a sweltering […]
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Introducing: Gone Workabout
“My life is better than your two-week holiday.” – Written on a women’s bathroom wall, Queenstown, New Zealand The arrogant chalk statement, scrawled above the pub toilet in New Zealand’s […]
How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 5-8
Two years ago, daily lamentations filled up the journal I had carried to an isolated mining town in Western Australia. Against all good advice to “make the most of it,” I hated Newman. The bugs, […]
The Effects of Gravity (That Is, How to Throw Yourself Into The Future, Even With Bonds Around Your Ankles)
At this moment, when the AJ Hackett crewmember with the neck tattoo invites “Who’s next?,” I feel liberated by a decision to give up. Ignore the 134 meters between us […]
5 Ways To Do Vegas Without Debt
Cliches roll round my mind faster than coins in an unlucky slot machine. This city – “The Meadows” or “The Fields” – has been the main character of so many […]
New Year’s Resolution #9: Learn Something New (That Is, How to Curl)
1. Gear up: Slip-on grippers? Check. One extra-slick slider that threatens to speed away from you every time you step on it? Check. Brooms? Check. 40-lb granite ‘rocks’, which will involuntarily […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Love (Or, How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 1-4)
How to Love a Town You Don’t; Steps 1 – 4 (Brought to you by the Weekly Photo Challenge).
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