Monthly Archives: March 2009

Uluru dawn – Kata Tjuta sunset.

The park pass for the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is only valid for three days, and I had got up at 5.30 in the morning and driven into the park three mornings in a row in an attempt to be able to climb Uluru. And for three mornings the climb had been closed due to […]

Goal 40 – didgeridoo dawn.

I have been attending a didgeridoo, or yidaki (see below) class at Didgeridoo Breath in Fremantle, and over the past few weeks have progressed fairly well under the expert guidance of Levi, the didge teacher there. In the first lesson I managed to get the feel of the technique of “circular breathing”, which means that […]

Kata Tjuta – “many heads”.

Before our second day out in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, both Ces and I succumbed to the lure of the fly nets that were on sale at the campground reception. The flies in the outback can be very persistant, and by the end of the previous day’s walk around the base of Uluru, we […]

Goal 39 – rock of ages.

I have called Australia home for over seven years now, and have travelled around here quite a bit. I have seen a lot of the country, but am also aware that there is a lot more that I haven’t yet seen. Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories, namely Queensland, […]

Light winds causing slow progress….

I had hoped to have another goal achieved by now, but the weather is not helping out. Perth usually has a very reliable afternoon onshore wind coming out of the south-west, which locally is called the Fremantle Doctor, as on a hot summer afternoon it cools the city down nicely. But over the past week […]

One year later…

Today is 14th March, and on this day last year my ALife4Sale.com website went live on the internet. My friend Simon gave his press release to, among others, “The Northern Echo” newspaper, who are based in my old home town of Darlington in the north-east of England. The Echo ran the first article about my […]

Goal 38 – this never happened, but….

Okay, so this never happened, but if it ever did happen, it might go something like this:- I hoped to achieve my goal of topping 150mph, or 250kph, on a motorbike in a fully legal fashion while in Germany last year, where there are certain autobahns where any speed is allowed. However, it proved to […]

Some new plans coming together.

Along with tackling my Australian-based goals, and taking a bit of a break, my main focus while here in Perth is to plan my upcoming travels for the next few months. It’s a complicated process, as there are a lot of factors to take into account. The biggest hurdle is that many of the goals […]

Some weighty issues!

Well, as I find myself still jobless in Perth, and therefore with a bit of time on my hands, my thoughts have turned to some weighty issues, and in particular, my goal to get back down to my previous weight of 70 kg (154lb, or 11 stones). I don’t really consider myself to be overweight […]

Flat Stanley achieves his Australian goal.

Until the day before yesterday I had never heard of Flat Stanley, but I received an email from Stace in Arizona, who asked me if I would be able to take her nephew’s friend Flat Stanley somewhere with me on my travels. I had a quick search on Google, and Wikipedia came up with the […]

New learnings.

During my travels over the last six months, being motivated to get on and achieve new goals was pretty easy. In fact at times, I was quite amazed at how easily some of the goals almost just fell into my lap. As I reflect upon the trip now, two such examples come easily to mind. […]

Breakthrough to Success.

I am absolutely worn out this evening, but in a really good way. A month or so ago I received an email invite to a seminar weekend here in Perth, run by a company called Universal Events. I hadn’t heard of them before, but the email had come via another company’s mailing list that I […]