Well, thats it! We've come to the end with a few bumps and scraps, a few hissy fits and a few memories regarding just how bad diahorea is on a 24 hour bus! We have definately finished on a high though, with the machu picchu experience being one of the most rewarding of the whole 4 months and the bolivian salt flats being one of the most otherworldly places i'm ever likely to see! Just look at the photos! Aside from the good times such as, meeting new peop...

Buenos dias amigos, Final leg of the journey underway now as we flew into Santiago a couple of days back. Stayed long enough to attend a footy match between U De Chile and La Serena (where we are now)! The game was average but the attitude of the crowd was brilliantand provided all the half time entertainment needed by provoking the police (in riot gear) through chants and banners to come charging into the crowd, who then retorted by causing a mini riot an...

Hello from not so sunny New Zealand its beautiful here and reminiscent of home which is strangely comforting after a few months in landscpaes of SE Asia and Australia. keeps raining though - ah well guess thats just part of the well rounded experience right? we've hired a car for this stretch of our journey which is refreshing and gives us a greater degree of freedom which basically means geodie is having the time of his life flying round new zealands desert...

Gudday mates!, or it would be a good day if it would PLEASE STOP RAINING!!!!!!!!! Yep, Queensland or "the sunshine state" as all the numberplates round hear proclaim has greated us with 4 days of continuous rainfall, attribited to a nice big cyclone which has parked up about 100kms from the coast and is refusing to move! It has somewhat dampened spirits because we wern't able to do white water rafting, or skydiving or any trips out of cairns to see cape tri...

Hello all since we've now been away for over a month i suspect very few ppl can be arsed to look at this website anymore. i would go so far to suggest that only our lovely parents may still be reading these entries but feel free to prove me wrong! ok, we're on a thai island called koh tao and have just become fully qualified open water divers! how good are we? pretty bloody ace i reckons. its absolutely awesome and we both loved it although geordie's swimmin...