Welcome. I don’t use this much blog anymore, but there is still some good content here from back in the day, and I still travel a lot. Now though I just share on my Facebook and Youtube channels and then share that content here.
Here we are two days out from jumping back in the car and hitting the road again. It is a funny old life this one we lead. There is a strangeness to living in a place almost long enough to call it home, and then
A lot of people think I am a little crazy for one reason or another, not crazy like I am going to chop you into little pieces and maybe have a taste crazy, just crazy like “He did whaaaaat now?” crazy. I don’t think myself crazy
It had been about a week since I had flown, and I was starting to get that feeling again, you know the one I mean, the one that says “You should really be doing such and such”. I still struggle with this sometimes. The feeling that there are
Oh my God that is the most awesome thing I have ever seen!!! …is what you will be saying by the end of this Paramotoring video. Actually I don’t mean to be flippant about these things, but I think this is definitely the best paramotor
Making a change and allowing yourself to reach beyond an ordinary life opens up a miraculous world of entirely new possibilities which you could never imagine without taking that initial leap of faith. Although this miraculous-ness has made itself known in my life since the
I have now gotten up in the air here in La Penita on two separate occasions. Both times I was on the verge of soiling my pants, but this last time I actually managed, in between large bouts of fear, not to soil my pants
It is a difficult balance to reach, and a strange one to even have to consider. How much should you work to be able to afford the life you want, and what kind of life do you want? Will an extra $10 000 a year
Here we are on the first few days of our house sitting gig, and all I can say is WOW! Actually that is not all I can say, I can tell you that La Penita is really hot right now and that it is the
For about as big a turn around as you can get, our new plans have moved on to the final stages and I am happy to announce that we have been approved for our US visas! After going to Mexico City for a night
Slowly but surely we are edging our way back to what is the new normal in our lives, travelling without travelling, living without the regular rules, and just enjoying being alive. For a little while there these things left us, me in particular, and the
As many of you are aware, and I am sure an equal amount are not, we are no longer in Guatemala! I say that with a smile on my face because despite what I expected and hoped for from Guatemala, life jumped in the way
And that’s a wrap! Our time in Playa del Carmen has come to an end. It is a very bizzarre feeling, almost as wierd as when we packed up and left Australia over 2 years ago. Playa has become like home to us, and that,
Below is a video of the last two days of training, which also happen to be the second and third day, which means I only had 3 days of training! And now I am solely responsible for a little airplane thingy which straps to my
As promised, here it is, video proof that I actually got in the air with nothing but a paramotor on my back, a wing above my head, and an extra layer of underpants! [vimeo 86800702 w=800 h=450] The training ended up being around 3 days
I am shortly going to be putting together a video of my time at the Blackhawk Ranch in Valley Springs, California, but until then I wanted to share with you the amazing thing which has just happened, my incredible foray into the heavens. Goin’ Up!
You may very well have seen my last post about wanting to follow a long-held dream and take to the skies like a bird (albeit a bird with one giant parachutey type wing and a motor on its back). Well after that post I started
Everyone has dreams, some more likely to become reality than others. Some seem as unreachable as the stars, others as unlikely as making it through life without pooping yourself somewhere other than a toilet at least once. I have so far at the grand old
I had a thought this morning. I was in that state where your eyes are opening and closing every few minutes, where you know the day has started but you are not quite ready to join it, and my mind had started ticking over and
Last night as the clock struck twelve and Sarah and I wished each other a Happy New Year, I was struck by a rather odd thought. Odd only because it is one I have never had before. “How the hell is 2014 going to compete
I haven’t written a post for awhile because I have been fixing lots of broken stuff, some of it biological and some of it technological. THE BODY After about two weeks of waiting for the hospital in Cancun to send my results through to Playa
Yesterday I went for an MRI on my neck. It has been a long time coming, but I hate to spend money, and so I have been putting off what I knew would be a costly procedure for as long as possible. Unfortunately the day
*I meant to post this a week ago, but then my laptop died. Anyways, here it is… The main reason we went down to Huatulco was to meet up with Sarah’s sister Holly and her friends who were on a cruise and stopping in there
The journey down from Oaxaca to Huatulco was supposed to take about four and a half hours, at least that is what Google said. Google was wrong. Now, I love Google, I wish I was smart enough to be a highly treasured employee of Google
After recovering a wee bit from the driving and the altitude, and having wandered around the actual city of Oaxaca and its markets. It was time for something a bit more old school, old school as in 1500 to 2500 years old. The ruins at