Almost there.... I've spent the last couple of weeks in east coast Oz (Brisbane x 2, Townsville, Lennox and Lisvegas) catching up with friends and family before I head off. I've had a pretty good time in the process and I've also seen and learnt some interesting things (who knew tomatos come from farms not supermarkets!!). Meeting and socialising with a considerable number of non-mining people was good (maybe I need to get out more when I return). It was intere...

Perth is the most remote capital city in the world, the second sunniest and the third most windy. I've got three more days here.....This will be the last entry from the west coast of Australia as on Thursday I head back east Brissy, Townsville and Lennox head. The last few weeks have been pretty hetic with organising and packing which I'll be relieved to see the end of and get down to travelling. The plan is simple for the next few months, on June 8th I head ...

Thailand Epilogue........On the way to the airport yesterday I reached a new level of tiredness, almost falling alseep on the way. This was the point that it sunk in that I wasn't training on Saturday. The flights were pretty uneventful but one thing that amused me on the Singapore-Perth flight was that the plane's entertainment system had 99 different movie options to chose from so basically by the time you'd looked through all movie titles you were almost home ...

I'm sitting here at the internet cafe next to Cheap Ass (voted our favorite restaurant) putting in my last blog entry from Thailand for now. I've got one training session left in the morning then off to the airport - I should be back in Perth around midnight on Friday. My training regime doesn't end there with Kobudo on Saturday morning and then off down south for a week of Gashuku (Karate/Yoga/Kobudo/Arnis in the Stirling Ranges) which will also be a new and exc...

Training today was good - I trained with Mat an older trainer who focused on footwork and really gave me a great going over. Its been three days (though it feels like weeks) since I last trained and it was tough standing around watching others train but not being able to train myself. On my Friday morning run I pulled a bunch of muscles in my back and could hardly walk less run or train. With a crash program of rest, ice and anti -inflamatories I got back in to i...