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WARNING: The following post contains many repetitions of the words ‘proper’ and ‘normal’.I’m now home. Have been so for a week now and thought it’d be worth dribbling on for one more hit. The last couple of weeks I was hanging out to go home. It didn’t help that I met another Hobartian in San Diego and we proceeded to spend the whole week yabbering on about all the things we were looking forward to about going home. The d...

It's almost hometime, so that means another country recap. I think some of my posts have been a bit negative towards the States - truth is a great place. It's also just such an easy target. So here's the usual dribble, this time on the greatest country in the world. Best City: Unlike everywhere else, there are so many unique cities here. There truly is only one Vegas, San Fran, Seattle, LA etc. But I'll have to go with New York. One of the most o...

I was just eating lunch and looking through my money tracker book (yes, I write down everything I spend - lame but good way to keep to a budget) and realized that today marks 8 months since I left Hobart. I can still clearly remember that day walking through the streets of Melbourne looking for carb gel packs before heading up to Bendigo for a weekend of Orienteering. I then looked back over the other days seeing what I was doing on this day for the last 8 months...

'What is it with people?' 'They're the worst!' Thank you Elaine Benes and Jerry Seinfeld, I couldn't have said it better myself. I don't know if it has come across in other posts, but travelling can really make you hate tourists. There's nothing worse than going somewhere new and cool, then having a massive tour bus pull in and offload a bunch of the tour brigade who swarm over everything, climb on statues, line along view platform...