Aside from walking well over a hundred miles whilst away, and throwing myself off various heights, I didn’t have a lot of exercise in the last few months. With warmer weather and plenty of options, I’ve flung myself back into exercising. Until I started this entry, though, I didn’t realise how much I’d been doing. [...]

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February the tenth was the start An unknown adventure awaited On my own, but free as a bird An amazing journey unfolded. I felt the coldest of colds Had sun scorch my neck Wind batter me senseless Cool breezes relax me. I entered the Arctic Circle Broke in to the tropics Europe’s furthest north Australia’s [...]

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So it’s over. My sabbatical from work has finished, and I’m back to work tomorrow. I have to write that again for it to sink in – I’m going back to work tomorrow. I’m sure there’s a number of you reading this feeling a little smug that after my big jolly I’m about to go [...]

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I’m sitting in a small room at Beijing airport with a thermometer underneath my armpit. Chalk up another experience… My ridiculously long journey home started what seems a lifetime ago, flying from Melbourne to Sydney. A few hours’ wait there and then an 11 hour flight to China, 7.5 hours’ wait and then another 11 [...]

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I’m currently sitting in the departure lounge at Melbourne airport, waiting for my delayed flight to Sydney. Once there, I’ll be heading back home, via a short stop in Beijing. The end of this fantastic trip is near… So Melbourne, then. It’s a cool place, I’ve decided, preferable even to Sydney. My visit to the [...]

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I’m sitting on a BMX bike on a ramp on a wobbling tower that is some stupid height off the ground ready to pedal my way into thin air. And I’m damn scared, I can tell you. How the heck did I get into this position? Let’s go back a bit to last night…   [...]

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I’m in the bus with half a dozen others being driven to the sky dive airport in Tully. I want this journey to last a long time, because I know once we’re there it will be very soon that I’ll be up I’m the sky. Unfortunately, the cheerful driver who’s seen this a thousand times [...]

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5.45am. My alarm goes off, disturbing a few of the girls in my eight- berth dorm. Time to abandon ship. Today I’m doing a sky dive. That’s jumping out of a perfectly good plane at 14,000 feet with an instructor strapped to your back, in the hope that the parachute will open ok and we’ll [...]

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