Monthly Archives: May 2010

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The great monkey-feeding exposé.

Jelene woke us early this morning, as there were monkeys by the swimming pool, and before long the monkey-feeding debate was in full swing. In the brochure at the condo there is a big article on why people shouldn’t feed the monkeys. I have been teasing Moe for some time now, as she is quite […]

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Horse riding in Quepos.

I only met Jelene and John briefly in Miami, when Jelene contacted me after reading an online article about my travels. But despite the brief introduction, they were kind enough to extend an invitation to me to join them for a week at their condo in Costa Rica. The invitation was further extended to include […]

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Last day in Jamaica.

When I met Jelene and John in Miami just over a week ago, they told me they were going down to Costa Rica on business on the 24th, and would be staying in their condo down there on the Pacific coast. Would I like to come down for a week, they wondered? Monkeys come to […]

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Jamaica-time.

On Saturday morning in Miami Moe and I got to work for an hour or two with the laptops in the hotel lobby, and before long we had booked flights to Jamaica, along with a hotel for the week we planned there. Our flight left that evening, so we had a few hours to have […]

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Shuttle launch.

Linda, and her husband Brian, contacted me to say that they were going to be down in Florida at the same time as I was. I haven’t seen them since October 2008, when Linda gave me the “Sopranos Tour” of New Jersey, and took me to achieve Goal Number 10 at Six Flags New Jersey, […]

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Tampa

I was first contacted by Moe on the day that the ALife4Sale eBay auction ended, and I announced that I was planning to achieve 100 goals in 100 weeks. She suggested that I needed to add a dog-sled ride to my list of goals, and eventually, six months later I flew into Whitehorse in the […]

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Miami.

After the article appeared in Sunday’s UK newspaper Mail on Sunday, and online here, I received many emails from all over the world, many expressing how inspiring they found my story to be. I was very flattered by such support and encouragement, but even more flattered at some of the offers of assistance that I […]

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Heading to America again.

While in the UK I didn’t manage to achieve any of the goals-related tasks that I had hoped to, but I had a fantastic time all the same. From Darlington I headed south again on Thursday, and stopped off with friends Mark and Bek in Nantwich. Mark featured on the blog very early on, when […]

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The future is unwritten…

With less than ten weeks to go now until the end of my 100 week-long adventure, I get asked many times questions such as:- “What will you do next?” “Where are you going to live?” “Will you go back to Australia?” “Are you going to get a job?” To be honest, I have been trying […]

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Back in England again.

I’ve been back in England for almost a week now, and it has been wonderful. Life has been comfortable and easy. There is electricity available all the time, clean water comes out of the taps, warm showers are readily available, and you never have to worry about the potentially adverse effects of what you are […]

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