Articles Posted in the Thats Crazy Category
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Fort Lauderdale to Washington DC – JetBlue Airlines – What a Drama
13 October 2010 Having decided to stay in America and continue with my original plan of travelling the United States and Canada I’d booked a flight up to Washington DC. I tried to check in early for my flight just to be alarmed when the assistant at the JetBlue desk notified me that Homeland Security [...]
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Alligator Wrestling Show
12 October 2010 Please excuse all the videos – my trial license with Adobe Premiere Pro has expired and I’m currently without video editing software. Any suggestions for free editing software will be appreciated
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Las Vegas Experience
13 – 18 September On the Monday we returned our rental car which had served us so well from San Francisco to Napa Valley, to Lake Tahoe, to Yosemite, to Santa Cruz and back again! We caught our flight to Las Vegas and arrived in the evening; without too many hassles we caught a shuttle [...]
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Albania (Tirana)
09 July 2010 That morning we departed Preveza at 7.45am, we were heading into the Albanian unknown; into the Eastern Block. To think that it was only as recent as 1991 that Albania started letting foreigners into the country, we were about to fulfil the ‘Adventurer’ part of our European Adventurer Contiki tour. When we [...]
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“It’s not wrong, it’s just different”
“It’s not wrong, it’s just different” Ray cracked out this saying from day one of our European adventurer, as a precursor for events to come and no doubt with the intention of instilling a calming effect on our group. It’s not wrong, it’s just different. Essentially chill out and go with the flow, some may [...]
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Battle to London
29 May 2010 – 31 May 2010 “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey” - Kenji Miyazawa What follows is a chronological timeline of the small battles and the large battles that James and I faced in our war with distance and time in order to reach London. Koh Phangan to [...]
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Koh Phangan Pharmacy
26 May 2010 Having recently come down with a cold I found myself in the local pharmacy. Now I’m not sure if it is more my ignorance derived from not spending much time in New Zealand pharmacies or if it is as I suspect and Thai pharmacies tend to have a larger range of breast [...]
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Pictures from Koh Samui
21 – 22 May 2010 Wild (or not?) pineapple I discovered on the walk up to the waterfall (snake encounter). Lizard (I felt like such a wild life photographer) I encountered on this same waterfall, also before I encountered the snake. Thailand’s child seat. It is interesting to note that current car seats for kids [...]
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Big Cheeky Monkey
18 May 2010 Two Banana Pancakes for Breakfast Bloody big as monkey just tried to come into my room and steal my stuff. I had to leap up and bellow like a gorilla to get the cheeky pest to bugger off! Plan was for Rock Climbing at 2pm Started raining at 1pm so didn’t end [...]
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Free Rock Climbing & Cliff Jumping
14 May 2010 Bloody Awesome. With the American’s we’d met a couple of nights before we paid a local long boat driver to take us out for half a day to some of the popular cliff jumping areas. Cliff jumping is great, it is rock climbing but without the need for equipment plus the added [...]
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