The arrangements have been made, the itinerary settled, and the world is starting to look a lot closer all of a sudden. Due to the inclusion of South America in the itinerary, we basically exceeded all the limits on the various round the world (RTW) tickets that were based on mileage. That left us to [...]
Sony Mavica FD91
Posted by Trav on November 23, 2000
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When planning the costs associated with these travels, we had to factor in costs for the pictures we would take over the course of our adventures. Basing our calculations on past travels (ie: roll of 24 exposures every three days), we worked out that at the end of purchasing film and developing film and sending [...]
Trav wins $1000 travel
Posted by Trav on November 18, 2000
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I entered an online competition through ninemsn.com on Thursday 16th November 2000 for a $1000 travel voucher from www.travelshop.com.au and won! Yes, the competition was valid for one day only, and it said you could enter as often as you’d like to. I decided I’d like to enter as often as I liked, having always [...]
Blackberry pudding and gravity
Posted by Trav on August 31, 2000
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Never immune from winning the award, and without doubt one of the most spectacular winners of the SPOTD, I awarded the prize to myself, for a demonstration of how notto take out the rubbish. Heading out the door to go to Uni at 8:30am, I noticed a bag of rubbish in the kitchen, as well as [...]
Pavlov’s car thief
Posted by Trav on July 4, 2000
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This SPOTD tale does contain some very minor spoilers for the movie “Gone In Sixty Seconds”, so I am inserting some spoiler space, for those that do not wish to read any further until they have seen the movie. I am not going to give away anything more than what is indicated in the trailer, [...]