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Well lets start with the good news first, I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago now and I have Social Anxiety and some Depression. I’m quiet but everyone always said I would grow out of it and I always believed it until now. In fact this trip was largely planned to help [...]

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I booked our day to start the Overland Track last night, 27th December. The booking system only opened on the 1st July and I found that January already had a few days with only a few spots left in the 3 days the system had been open. The cost was $300 for two, steep really. [...]

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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.

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Thanks to Mike at Vagabondish for tagging me for this, I like this one more than the first one that went around,
1. The Real World. I want to know the real world, how people live in other countries, what their world view is like, their history, how much of the world is occupied by humans and how much or little damage have we done. Of course we can read about all these things but I don’t think [...]

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Of all the travel sterotypes the Anti-Tourist is possibly the worst, he is the traveller who as the name implies, hates with a burning passion the regular tourist, he is quite well defined here. He is the one who doesn’t just give advice on travel, he tries to tell you how to travel. He misses [...]

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Quite possibly one of the ugliest tourist developments I have ever seen the Grand Canyon Skywalk opens to the public in 2 days. At $75US it’s not a cheap way to see the canyon eigther, in fact personally I don’t even think the whole development looks like it is worth $75. Still in a couple [...]

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When you were a kid what did you want to do with yor life? Most of us had pretty grand ideas of what we wanted to be and do, looking back although the plans were grand and to reality of the what we wanted to do was very pure, very simple. I wanted to be [...]

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The other day I commented to my girlfriend that we have almost been living in our current residence for almost 2 years and she said “where has the time gone?”. It’s never really worried me before but I guess I’ve changed a bit in the last 2 years and no I do wonder where has [...]

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Why not? It’s the biggest [tag]adventure[/tag] you could possibly take. It’s one of the most meaningful things you could possibly do in life. You should become a better person for it. Because to many people waste their lives working their butts off so they can sit in front of the biggest TV they can possibly [...]

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