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The Buddha’s Striptease #4

Worries? We don’t need no STINKIN’ worries! Almost Homeless When we last saw our intrepid traveler, he was stranded in Tennant Creek (TC) awaiting a new engine in Eve, our 1987 Ford Falcon. We were towed back to TC on Tuesday night and original estimates were that it needed a new engine and it would [...]

Tim and Mari’s World Tour #4

The South Island November 28 Things looked better once we got to the South Island.  We haven’t been forgotten even once.  It has been a while since our last update, but click on the mid-November update to see some of our earlier trials. One dark and rainy night (In New Zealand???), Mari and I arrived [...]

No Pockets in Shrouds – September 2nd 1999

September 2nd, 1999 Your nerves are wrecked from working too hard and your company decides to retire you early. You have your 50th birthday staring you in the face and you don’t know what to do with yourself. This is the dilemma that I am facing at the moment. So, what do I do? Do [...]

Canberra, ACT – July 1999

Zen and the Art of Living in Canberra for Longer Than 2 Weeks Well, here I am again, perhaps a little more spiritual due to the fact I have had to survive mind numbing boringness for the past three months. I will be stuck in Canberra for the whole holidays as well, due to the [...]

The Northwest Mud Circuit

Hiking Stewart Island off the coast of New Zealand

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.

Swagman #4 – RSA and Me

As George quickly discovered, serving beer in NSW is not just a case of turning up at the pub and asking for a job.

Swagman #3 – American Alien – Sydney, Australia

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.