Southern Exposure
Experience # 901 Travelling to the coldest, driest, windiest and least inhabited place in the world to gape at floating ice cubes is not everyone’s idea of a holiday. In fact, roughly only 10,000...
View ArticleThe Joy of the Journey
Today I bought a piece of wrapping paper, not because I had a gift to give – nor in fact will I likely use it to wrap a gift – it’s too nice. I bought it because the images on it caught my eye. I...
View ArticleLoudest Flight Ever
I’m travelling Alaska to Las Vegas. It sounds more impressive than it really is. I’m aboard my first Alaska Airlines flight as I write this. Top Tip – Barely inside the US border and a short bus ride...
View ArticleThe Crew Ship
Adventure on the high seas need not be the exclusive domain of sea-faring souls; even sea-fearing landlubbers can set sail and prove their sea worthiness by crewing on a private boat. First and...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Buses
I am sitting by the side of the road, California Interstate 5 to be exact, at 11pm on a Friday night as I write this. I was on longhaul bus trip from Las Vegas to San Francisco. ‘Was’ being the...
View ArticleBest Flight EVER
My best flight ever. Hands down, absolutely ever! I had been in Hong Kong with a good friend of mine, CherryPop (this is truly his nickname). We’d even extended our stay by one day we were having such...
View ArticleMost Colourful Flight Ever
… and the plane hadn’t even left the tarmac yet. There’s something exciting about flying the national carrier of your destination from your home country – what with the foreign accents of the flight...
View ArticleFun with Airport Codes
(A silly little article with no offence intended to any of the destinations involved.) So! I’ve decided that I need to fly into Massawa, Eritrea, Africa because its three lettered IATA airport code...
View ArticleStanding at the Bottom of the Top of the World
Motivated by a lecture, guest writer Vicki Dawson, realises a dream by climbing one shallow breath at a time to Everest’s Base Camp. On October 25th 2010, something that had started as a vague idea...
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