I was fortunate enough to spend about 8 weeks in Sydney and Melbourne last year while on my gypsy travel binge, and I’d like to share a few quick light-hearted thoughts.
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I was fortunate enough to spend about 8 weeks in Sydney and Melbourne last year while on my gypsy travel binge, and I’d like to share a few quick light-hearted thoughts.
So I’m just browsing the Web, minding my own business, and then I happen to check the feed of my friends’ status updates on Facebook. I see some rather distressing updates like “… is in disbelief” and “… is predicting national depression.” Obviously something really bad is happening, and because all the doom and gloom [...]
Last December I was on a major road trip up the west coast of the US with my friend Paul from Arizona when my engine burnt to a crisp outside of Olympia, Washington. I was forced to get rid of just about all of my possessions that couldn’t fit on an airplane, which was not [...]
ATTENTION ALL ASIAN RESTAURATEURS: You’re Missing A Huge Opportunity! So I was having dinner with my friend Priscilla at a Japanese restaurant last night, and realised that Asian restaurants are missing out on a huge opportunity. As with almost any non-Asians, both of us had pretty much no idea what all of the options were [...]
I like to think of myself as a pretty open-minded person, but recently after interacting with a great number of people here in Auckland that represent a very wide range of global cultures, I’ve been thinking that I could only live someplace in the world that generally has a culture pretty close to mine. I [...]
I’m sitting in my room and it’s very quiet here in the hall. The reason is that it’s the Easter break and everyone jetted out of the hostel late last week. I actually went up to a little town north of Auckland named Kerikeri where I spent two nights at my friend Jesse’s farm, but [...]
I must say that signage is severely lacking here in New Zealand. Everywhere I go, I have no idea where I am. Street signs are terrible. At most intersections, even major ones, you only see one street sign for the street that you’re turning onto. If you are lucky enough to see a sign for [...]