A little boat and a vast ocean: are we the only people in the world?
In my South Pacific sailing adventure there was no getting away from it: hundreds of miles from anywhere and anyone, we were in the middle of a big blue ocean, and for three weeks that ocean was our...
View ArticleThree weeks of Pacific sunrises
Somehow I got lucky and landed the sunrise watch. Me and early mornings have a love-hate relationship but in this situation, where I had to be up anyway to do my boat duty as we crossed the South...
View ArticleWinding up life on board
It’s all whizzing by so fast now! I’m watching the miles tick by and it’s making me a bit nervous. I’ve mixed feelings, of elation and apprehension. Some excitement too. How do people go back to real...
View ArticleMarooned: what the hell do I do now?!
It was never a guaranteed that I’d stay on board all the way to Australia, and with space for only one of us, either Matt or me had to make a move to a different boat or a different whatever. …...
View ArticleAnd then it was over
As I sat on the flat, spongy mattress of a cobbled together dorm room near the airport on the island of Tahiti listening to the woes of an eighteen year old French lad who’d had his money and laptop...
View ArticleTotal solar eclipse: the power of the universe puts things into perspective
I’ve been putting off writing this up for some time. Why? Because everything I put down on paper feels empty compared to the actual experience, because each moment and emotion described feels shallower...
View ArticleTravel, belonging and reflections on home
A moment for reflection (courtesy of travel writer Pico Iyer) before the Travelola travelogues move Melbourne way. Related articles Pico Iyer (wikipedia.org) Pico Iyer (Official Website)...
View ArticleTravel Word Play on World Poetry Day 2014
The Greek philosopher Aristotle reckoned that ‘adventure is worthwhile’, thus giving travelling the thumbs up, while Edgar Allen Poe is quoted as saying that ‘to elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.’...
View ArticleLeaving, Again
Does saying goodbye ever get any easier? It’s all a bit strange, this leaving thing, when you think about it. Traveller or expat, I’m sure we all feel it to varying degrees, this need to get on and do...
View ArticleWhat Changes While You’re Away? The Inevitability of Missing Out When...
‘Never heard of Fomo?’ asked a Guardian newspaper headline of its readers, ‘You’re so missing out.’ So common is this Gen-Y social condition that the acronym FOMO – fear of missing out – was added to...
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