TheLostGlobe

The Juicy Bits

I’ve been rolling my eyes lately at a lot of travel blogs. There have been a few articles lately written by Americans lamenting the value and instability of their dollar. Travel has become too expensive they say. Being an Australian though although our own currency has strengthened in recent years we are still worth about [...]

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If learning that it is not a good idea to handle food or shake with your left hand in Asia, or that in Australia the ‘thumbs up’ gesture is considered obscene is a good sign of an interested traveller then it might be interesting to find that in Australia at least you’d be wrong about [...]

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The journal Science has published an report on the domestication of the planet. It was reported that as of 1995 only 17% of the world land area was still “truly wild” ie; no human populations, crops, road access or night-time light detectable by satellite. The Discovery Channel’s article on the report described some disturbing details.

Half [...]

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Most of us want to travel so why is it that so few of us actually do?
Let’s look at some of the reasons so many travel plans never take flight.

Ideas in your head are great fun and they are an important part of being inspired to travel and maintaining that motivation but ideas only get [...]

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Last weekend I spent most of my Saturday running around in the bush aiming at peoples heads and pulling the trigger without a second thought other than making sure the person I was shooting at didn’t look like me. It was a game of course the guns were infra-red and the only thing really different [...]

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A couple of months ago I heard about something called the Six Week Challenge, the challenge being on the premise that the Shampoo and Conditioner Industry is a sham, that Shampoo probably does more harm to your hair than good and the idea that you need to ‘wash’ your hair is simply untrue, it’s just [...]

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Some people have travel in the back of their mind but they are not devoted to the idea they need a reason or multiple reasons. Lets not down play the decision to travel to many of us the answer seems obvious but deciding to travel for an extended period of time is a decision [...]

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Reading how others are saving for travel I’ve noticed that many adopt a Buddhist philosophy towards saving, some knowingly and others not so. Of course the philosophy isn’t exclusively Buddhist, any philosophy is just that, but this one has long been associated with Buddhism.
A few months ago Brave New Traveler had an excellent article called 5 Steps To [...]

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I often find when I post something that I’ve forgotten to do something I had planned to and that might have made the post just that much better, who knows at times it could mean the difference between the post disappearing into the archives or rocketing to the top of some social networking site. So I [...]

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This is a bit of a Community Service Announcement, there have been a few reports in the news lately about the misuse of EPIRBs in Tasmania. Two notable occasions were a Swiss couple who activated their EPIRB after getting their 4WD bogged just 7Km’s from a main road and a group of South Australian’s walking [...]

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