George Dunn
| George Dunn contemplates his time away from home. | Swagman #17 - Magnetic Island: The Battle for Cabin 27 - Magnetic Island, Australia Magnetic Island is like visiting a small community that lies within a zoo, as George found when he came up against some territorial possums. |
Swagman #15 - The Sugar Drive to Cairns - Cairns, Queensland, Australia George found that there is really very little to do in Cairns but rest, drink, and risk your life on any of the latest adventure crazes sweeping through. | George Dunn lost a day of his life on the way to Fiji, but the price was worth paying after just a few days in Nadi. |
| George Dunn's smooth departure was in direct contrast to his younger brother's. | As George quickly discovered, serving beer in NSW is not just a case of turning up at the pub and asking for a job. |
| George's first days in Sydney are no holiday. He gets lost, almost killed crossing the street, and he has to share a bed with his brother. | Swagman #6 - Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting - Sydney, Australia For anyone thinking of travelling to Australia and working in a pub, George Dunn gives a blow by blow (literally) account of a night's work. |
| The apartment has become a revolving door of tenants, and George found a job in one of the roughest pubs in Sydney. | Swagman #9 - Short Days, Long Nights and the United Nations of Quarryman's - Sydney, Australia It's a bit ironic to travel around the world to a country and not encounter anyone from that country, but that's exactly the situation George finds himself in at the end of his second month. |
Swagman #8 - A Month Down - A Cheap Guide To Sydney - Sydney, Australia George has been in Sydney for over a month now and has somehow, inexplicably and unintentionally, managed to avoid just about every tourist attraction that requires a fee. | George walked into a pub for a couple of beers and walked out with a new job. He also felt a little too close to home at a college party. |
| Travelling up the east cost of Australia, George stops in Byron Bay and then Nimbin, where he is offered more pot in one afternoon than in his entire life. | With his brother about to leave town, and his own time in Sydney coming to an end, George makes an effort to experience Sydney - a bridge climb, a trip to the Blue Mountains, a booze cruise, and a 7 h |
Swagman #10 - To Venture Out of Sydney - New South Wales, Australia George Dunn had spent about two months in Sydney and had never ventured beyond its borders. A connection with a local enabled him to get off the well-worn backpacker trail. | Swagman #14 - Noosa and the Development of a Backpacker Town - Queensland, Australia It seems to George that all a location needs is a beautiful beach, and the backpackers will find it, tell others about it and then money pours in. |
Swagman #13 - Gold and Sunshine Coast Sandwich, BrisVegas Filling - Brisbane, Australia Before leaving New York, George had promised his brother that they would go skydiving, and the time had come to deliver on that promise. | Swagman #20 - Back to Sydney, Down to Melbourne - Melbourne and Sydney, Australia The run down the east coast has seen George's bank account dry up. Fortunately, there's plenty of free things to do in Melbourne. |
Swagman #18 - Whitsunday 'Sailing' - Whitsunday Islands, Australia Backpackers convene like moths to a flame to the many Whitsunday sailing deals offered in Airlie Beach, and very often get burned. | George came to the conclusion that visiting Fraser Island on a self-drive tour is like living out the first episode of the show Survivor. |
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