The week in Costa Rica continues to be wonderfully relaxing and immense fun. The only problem is that I am not making much progress with my remaining unachieved goals. However, I do manage to keep revisiting some of the other goals that I have achieved previously. We went horse riding again, a more gentle ride […]
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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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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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Our pre-arranged Jamaican taxi arrived, to our amazement, exactly on the dot of 3am, and once we roused the hotel receptionist from her deep slumber, and recouped our deposit, we were on our way. At the airport the coffee shop opened early, and Moe finished off her yoghurt and juice. A short hop took us […]
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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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This was always going to be a tricky goal to achieve, as I haven’t really done a stroke of work for over two years now (which is just the way I like it!) So this is one of my more unusual goals, and comes from a visit back to the UK from Australia, when at […]
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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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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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When planning a couple of the more expensive goals on the list, I ran into a few problems. Initially I had planned to go to Russia to experience a weightlessness flight, and a flight in a MiG fighter jet. However, I ran into two problems. The first was that the flight in a MiG cost […]
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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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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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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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I am back once more at mum’s house in Darlington, and am working again on my charity fundraising goal while here. I am sure mum thinks I never have time to sit and talk to her, as I am always on the go while here, trying to catch up with friends, writing blogs, working on […]
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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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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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