This Weekly will be quite funny for me because it will center around a question I get all too often. This question doesn’t annoy me but almost always comes from people who are sheltered, those who don’t travel much, and from people who are quite naive and take the mainstream news as the bible. ‘Aren’t …
THE WEEKLY
It’s been just over half a year since I had my double hip arthroscopy. I think I’ve come out of it all pretty well and count myself lucky, although my body is far from perfect. It allows me to do most but not all activities. I thought I’d use this Weekly to record a bit …
The second week of a new decade brought me back to Australia to visit friends and family. I really enjoy getting back ‘down under’ to catch up with relatives, grandparents, my family, and friends. I began the trip by heading up to Byron Bay to visit my Aunty and Grandmother. Byron is one of those …
2019 is well behind us now but the year only felt over for me once I finished up with my month in Hong Kong in the first week of 2020. It was the final travel block of the year and a great way to wrap up 2019. The final week in Hong Kong was a …
That’s been three weeks in Hong Kong. It’s always a blur when you are going flat out but after 21 days in the city, I feel pretty comfortable with the basics of getting around and how everything works. It takes a few months to begin to feel like a local but only a few weeks …
While most people in Hong Kong are hustling from home to job to gym to meeting to home, I’m in a hustle of my own. 20 hikes in 30 days may not seem like a huge task but believe me, it’s not easy. I need to research which are the top 20 hikes (in my …
It almost seemed like I had signed off on the year after leaving Siargao, but it was only December 7 when I flew out of the tropical paradise in the Philippines. With 23 days left in 2019, there were still a lot of adventures to be had and it was time for the final chapter …
Back in the day, I was an athlete, believe it or not, every spare moment I had was spent training and trying to become a professional soccer player. I came close to a professional contract when I was 19 but things didn’t pan out. I was pretty intense back then and had trouble separating my …
When you hang out with Josh and me for a while, you quickly come to realize one thing. We often head off an adventure underprepared, without due preparation and just with a general lack of understanding of what we are about to be in for. Siargao Island was no different. After talking about running around …
Two years have come and gone since I was last on the island of the palms, Siargao. The last time I found myself on the popular surf-island in the Philippines was back in 2017 when I stayed on the island for an entire 40 days with Josh, Jorden and my sister. During that time I …
So far our journey through Papua New Guinea had taken us into the mountains of the Kokoda Track and Mount Wilhelm, followed by a few days of coastal exploration at Madang. With a long transit day from Madang due to a flight delay, we made it to our final stop of the PNG expedition, Walindi …
After two weeks of trekking through the mountains of Papua New Guinea, it was time to hit the coast and get salty. We had a big transit day from Rondon Lodge to Mt Hagen by bus and then a flight back to Port Moresby before one final journey via plane to Madang. Here we were …