There’s been a rush of Hobopoet posts in the past 24 hours (see here), after months of barely anything. For many years Hobopoet was my favourite blog, before he switched from blogspot to his own domain and then promptly seemed to lose the thread of his hobopoet journey.
A new post from AJ usually gives [...]
Running, Creativity, Travel
Tag Archive: Travel
Travelling Gets Into Your Blood
5 Amazing Places to Run in Australia
Right, let’s just imagine for a moment, that you’re taking some time out. Getting away from it all. You want to run, and you want it to be amazing. Here’s 5 random places in Australia that, if strung together, make for a tremendous trip.
(Most of these routes are mostly off road, so no traffic, and [...]
Would Just One ‘Great Escape’ Be Enough For You?
A conversation with an occasional reader the other day, put me in my place. “What you write is all very good,” he said. (Oh shucks, thanks…).
“But when are you actually going to do something about it?”
Oh. Ummm… Is it enough to say that I’m trying? ‘Very trying’ would be the droll response to that one. [...]
Do We Sabotage Our Own Dreams?
I came back from my travels last year, excited. I’d had a glorious year of running and travel – a combination that rocked my world. I couldn’t wait to get stuck in to doing more of the same in my home country. Have you seen what Scotland looks like?! We may not get the weather, [...]
Can Travel Save The Planet?
A dilemma I have, and rarely address, is the contradiction between how much I love and value travel, and how much I don’t want the world to be decimated by self-indulgent plane journeys. I follow many blogs dedicated to ‘location independent’ lifestyles, travel, and tips on how you too can live a life that encompasses [...]
How Travelling Can Give You Super-Hero Powers
Like Hiro in the TV series Heroes, I too can travel through time and space.
As I’m typing this post, it is this winter’s first snow fall in the city. Big fluffly flakes of snow are cascading down and settling on the cars and bushes and buildings outside my window. And as I sit here I [...]
Windows On Adventure
I’m on my Christmas holidays, and today is just Monday! The whole week stretches ahead, deliciously. Out on my run this morning, I’m unfocused and ok with that. I jog along, stop and start, stroll and sprint as the fancy takes me. I take an interest in other people’s front rooms – glancing in windows [...]
Why Being A Budget Nomad Is Good For Your Health
9.30am on a frosty Saturday morning. The sun is rising through a gap in the trees, and bathing the living room in gold. I want to be out there, jogging the ice-crusted trails down by the river. But I’m not, because I’m choked with the cold: just the walk from my desk to the kettle [...]
9 Handy Hints For Life After Backpacking
This always makes me laugh. Don’t know who to credit for it, its done the rounds on Facebook I don’t know how many times, but whoever you are out there, thank you. This is great!
“Having trouble readjusting to life back at home now that the travelling is over? Here are 9 handy hints to help [...]
Living The Dream: Costs
Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania. A nice place to hang out for a few days marathon training.
I put in a couple of magnificent (and challenging) 12 milers here, round the Hazards-Wineglass Bay loop, at the crack of dawn while most of the tourists and hikers were still fast asleep. There are great trails skirting the peaks, [...]
