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Southwest in Widescreen

The American Southwest is a beautiful place. There are so many amazing National Parks, State Parks and scenic areas to visit. I passed through this stunning landscape a little too quickly a couple of times on my 2008 to 2010 goal achieving adventure. I vowed I would return to spend some more time there. In […]

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End of the journey

We dropped down out of the mountains towards Denver, where we had arranged to meet with friends Val and Eric, along with Eric’s brother Josh and son Dylan. The meeting place was spectacular. Red Rocks Canyon is a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre surrounded by huge rock outcrops. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were playing that night, […]

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September travels #8 – Arches NP

After passing through Moab we headed into Arches National Park in Utah. It was incredibly busy, even mid-week, and the campground was full. Once again we were very lucky, after hiking all day, to secure a last minute camping spot cancellation, which are offered on a first-come-first-served basis. We hiked around more of the spectacular […]

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September travels #3 – Zion National Park

I have visited Zion NP before on my “100 goals” travel adventure, and was keen to return to spend a little more time here. There were a few hikes I didn’t have time to do on my last visit. Zion is a beautiful place. From the National Parks brochure: Immutable yet ever changing, the cliffs […]

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September travels #2 – Bryce Canyon

Visiting Bryce Canyon meant a bit of a detour, and will involve doubling back after we leave, but it was certainly well worth coming here. It is equally as breathtaking as the Grand Canyon, but on a much smaller scale, so we have managed to hike around many of the trails below the canyon rim, […]

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August travels #3 – the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is simply breath-taking. It is impossible to capture in a photograph what you see and experience here, but these are a few of what I consider to be my better attempts to do so. There are a few other random posts and pix on our social media sites, but this is a […]

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August travels #1 – Texas

We put quite a few miles under our wheels during the first half of August, and have seen some beautiful and amazing places. Texas has been absolutely wonderful, and we were both a little sad to approach the western border of the Lone Star State. With August being filled with travels and new places, I’ve […]

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July travels and adventures

July has been a lot of fun, but has posed a couple of challenges too. Plans have had to be changed a little, and rather than stay in Austin through August as we had originally planned, we are back on the road again. I wrote a couple of extra blog posts in July. The most […]

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Welcome to America!

I have been friends with Evan since the very early days of my eBay-life-auctioning adventures, and Vanessa and I were very excited and honoured to get an invite to help him celebrate his wedding to Teresa. The event was to be held at Huntington Beach in California. With our first 90 day US visa approaching […]

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The Open Gate of Opportunity

One of my favourite Richard Branson quotes is: “Opportunities are like buses, there is always another one coming.” Some talk of “opportunity knocking” or about “opening the door of opportunity”. On this occasion opportunity presented itself to me in the form of an open gate. July 4th is a big day here in the States […]

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June travels and adventures

“Time flies when you’re having fun.” I guess Vanessa and I are having lots of fun here in Austin, as June just seems to have breezed by. We are fast approaching the two month mark on our US adventures already. As I said last month, I plan is to only write one travel update blog […]

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First talk scheduled in Austin

Vanessa has been hard at work in her role as publicist, and has booked our first talk at the Hostelling International hostel in downtown Austin. I have been hard at work putting together a new talk which will be a little longer and more in-depth than the talk I did for the TEDx event in […]

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May travels and adventures.

As always, time seems to have flown by since I last sat down to write a blog post. It really doesn’t seem very long ago that I took the photograph of our suitcases, packed and ready for travel, in the front room of our little home on the island in Panama. However, we have fitted […]

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New journey and adventures begin today

On 1st May Graham and his partner Casey returned to Bocas and we collected them in town after they had had a chance to do some shopping for their first week of supplies. We spent a couple of days going through the house and island, covering matters such as maintenance of the solar system, rain […]

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