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What if you were to wake up one day, quit your career, and move to another country? Sometimes the things we value suddenly change. The weight on the scales shift and we instantly find ourselves living in a world that we know absolutely nothing about. This is a record of that on-going experience.
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Perth to Darwin
From The Bang, 9 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
It was a road trip.? I had said I wanted to cross the desert.? I wanted to see the red sands of the Outback and feel its blistering heat.? I’m one of those crazies that like to experience it all in life.? It seems that I have a tendancy not to settle for the beaten track no how matter how hard I try, but I don’t try that hard.? I had many things in mind when it comes to Australia, the venemous and deadly you-name-its, the vast and prickly deserts, the majestic reef, and some beach...
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I, the Aboriginal
From The Bang, 9 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
First, lets go over a few things.? In 1770, British captain James Cook was the first European explorer to find the continent now known as Australia.? Aboriginals had been on the continent for tens of thousands of years.? Nearly twenty years after Cook came upon Australia, Britain would send ships to colonize the continent for no other purpose than to have a place to send their unwanted because their prisons were bursting at the seams.? On 1788 those ships arrived, and with them came the lack...
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Perth Ramblings
From The Bang, 10 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Perth
A friend of mine called me up today. We got to talking about the blog. I haven’t updated it within the last few days because there isn’t much to say. “I’m sure there is something to say”, she replied. As my new friend Nic would say, seems fair enough.? So, here we go!
The other day I woke up before the sun came up. I do that quite frequently. I find that I seem to wake before everyone nearly everywhere I go. I woke up and I put on a hoodie and some sweat...
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Bags Packed
From The Bang, 10 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
An hour left before I leave Alkoomi and I never see it again.? There is a sadness to the whole saying goodbye part of it all.? The over riding, and uplifting, part is that I am about to step into something new.? Where a chapter ends a new one begins and that is awesome by its very definition.? I packed my large Alps 90 litre bag again.? Even still I am getting better at it.? I took on an extra pair of jeans and a hooded sweatshirt from Oscar.? He was a guy that worked in the cellar of the...
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Alkoomi Wines
From The Bang, 11 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I had been at the kangaroo sanctuary for forty-eight hours when Jon, the owner, walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to work in a vineyard.? It seems Jon has the ability to read minds.? I was planning on staying at the kangaroo sanctuary for one week before heading to the vine region here in Western Australia.? I laughed at him.? Actually, I told him, I would like some of that vineyard work.? You start Monday, he told me, and this is how the last three weeks of my being a vine pruner...
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Uralla Wildlife Sanctuary Photo Blog
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Kangas Everywhere
From The Bang, 11 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
We were on Perillup and we turned left onto Perillup. ?It was a road that comes to a dead end and then you can turn left or right. ?If you choose correctly you stay on the road. ?Coincidentally the road that we turned off of and now drove down is also the same name as the town. ?Perhaps town is not the right word. ?Think smaller. ?I am once again out in the middle of no where, and no where is named Perillup. ?There aren’t many roads here. ?No street lights or road curbs or signs or...
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Cockroach Boots
From The Bang, 11 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I had overheard Sahyma tell someone that she was going to rent the caravan out for $50 a week.? I went away with that and came back to her.? I proposed paying her $50 a week and an additional $20 to use the ute.? I would look for temporary work.?? The next day I put up notes on the local notice boards.? The notice boards are all over town.? I put my notices in the IGA supermarkets.? There are two, a small one and a big one.? I listed out some of the skills that I’ve picked up and I wrote...
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Playing with Fire
From The Bang, 12 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I became one with the fire.? Dave and I walked down the hill in front of the caravan.? We walked around the lone set of kiwi trees and around to a pile of old branches and plant castings.? The pile was the length of the caravan in size and nearly half of its height.? Night was coming on us and we had just spent the day relaxing as it is Sunday and even the devil should find a moment of rest on Sunday.
Dave is older than I am.? He doesn’t look his age.? I guess at why.? Perhaps it is from...
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Where is this guy'
From The Bang, 1 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
My Magical Bus.
You might be asking yourself where is this guy.? He’s writing blog updates for days and then just like that, he’s gone.? Your right ya know.? I am gone.? I’ve gone up a mountain, Mt Shadford.? Mt. Shadford, where there isn’t any internet, television, and just enough cell connection to give you a hope that the call won’t drop just before it does.? So the logistics are an obvious wrench in the gears but other than I dig it.? It’s been pretty...
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