Cusco, Peru

May 9, 2010

South America on a Shoestring - Sam´s Entry Oh-laaa amigos. Donde est el Banó? I´ll stop there before it degrades into Spanglish, which we here too often in English-ridden bars - "Oh la, can I have uno beer por favour, cheers mate, grassy-arse!" It's been nearly a month since the last entry, and it couldn't have been more action packed. We flew into Santiago and befriended a belligerent Bolivian-American who showed us a ...

Auckland, New Zealand

Apr 20, 2010

NORTH - Sam's EntryI climbed down from my bungee jump high in Queenstown and went to Wanaka to see Dave throw himself out of an aeroplane from 15,000 feet. What was unique about Dave's jump was that instead of the other jumpers, who went at 12,000 feet, Dave had employed a crazy cameraman to climb on top of the plane and dive after him, filming the persuit. The black clouds obscured the freefall for me on the ground, but the DVD afterwards is ...

Queenstown, New Zealand

Mar 30, 2010

BACK ON THE ROAD - Sam's Entry I write this on a ridiculous high, still pumped full of adrenaline from completing the Nevis highwire bungee at midday today. 134 metres above a massive ravine in a glass-bottomed cablecar suspended on wire ropes... 8 second freefall, 100kmph speed hurtling towards the ground. I felt like I was about to kill myself when they counted me down, and when I jumped I was moving too fast to breathe or scream. I just pu...

Dunedin, New Zealand

Mar 2, 2010

NEW ZEALAND - Adventures of the one-man recession buster (Sam's Entry)Ki ora everybody (whilst I wish they still made that fruit squash, I'm referring to the Maori meaning). It's been a long time since me and Dave have spent enough time together to organise an update to our writing. I think that this entry will be a really interesting one because we have been doing completely different things the whole month, and whilst I've probably drawn the...

Nadi, Fiji

Feb 7, 2010

FIJI - LAND OF ISLES, SMILES, FREE NARCOTICS AND DANCE-OFFS - Sam's Entry Bula. We left Melbourne for Sydney, then flew from Sydney across the giant Pacific Ocean with absolutely no idea of what we were getting ourselves into. I fail to remember why we even decided to go to Fiji in the first place. We knew nothing about it's culture, what to do there, and how expensive it was. And by this stage we've had our fill of culture, parties and sunb...