Stoney Monday

... weather did everything, warm sun, heavy rain, hail, thunder. The temperature in the van at night was 6 C Liz left for work at 07.30 on Monday Peter packed the van up and left at 10.00.  Got home uneventfully (were there any other cars on the ...

Monday, August 10 - Seward, Alaska, United States - Day 2 of 3 Happy Birthday, Deana! Our day started with a bus tour provided by Trails North.  The bus driver, Whitey Van Deusen, owner of Trails North, took us on an informal tour of Seward and then ...

... well. So how do you summarise that into one phrase? Deception Pass Distance: 11kms one way Elevation gain: 770m Highest point: 2475m Time: 5 hours Stoney Squaw Distance: 2.2km from Mount Norquay parking lot Highest Point: 1884m Time: 4 hours from Downtown ...

... ", one of the restaurants in Portobello.   19.01.09          Monday. Another magical morning at Kaimata, we meet our fellow residents a Swiss couple Andreas and Corrin over breakfast. As ...

... he was that Miss Hawaii lost out to the orthodontically perfect, cajun cooking, sumer camp assistant from Louissiana. Expenses: 2 beers 18.40 Monday 30 August - Day 120 We leapt out of bed at 5.30, excited at the new day ahead. As we strolled ...

... okay, which we were.  Again, a picture in my mind of pitching my tent into the lush grass…. Thwarted.  It was stoney gravel.  The grass hadn’t grown through the stones yet, so it was stoney first few nights.  Fortunately we ...

... important man in these parts, as such rum was given as a gift and he sure liked it. The local villagers are often stoney faced when posing for pictures but with a bit of rum inside him the Shaman was soon showing off his pearly yellows! Luckily ...

... with our new travelling companions (seven of us in total). We celebrated the occasion with a curry in downtown Kowloon.   MONDAY 18 MAY 2009 - DESTINATION - MAINLAND CHINA - Laden with bags, we took the clean and efficient Metro to Shenzhen where ...

... trip up to 'Karunda' for tomorrow on the skyrail and we travel back on a scenic railway which i'm looking forward to, then on monday we are going snorkelling on the great barrier reef! hopefully it'll be different to the Whitsundays, we want to see ...

... had gone there to get didn't show up, so we stopped at the bar, Swings, and had a drink. There's this drink called stoney twa...daka..(something like that in Swahili) and it tastes like ginger beer. Very good. We were exhausted, slightly toasty pink and ...

... from cigarettes and soft drinks, but I have subsequently done an about turn.  I stumbled upon Tangawizi - the Tanzanian equivalent of Stoney Ginger Beer (exactly the same stuff, in the same bottle, but with a Swahili name - as they say in Thailand: ...

... government buildings on it.  Plenty of people seem to like hanging around the square and there are families of Bolivians posing stoney faced in front of the buildings.  This square seems all so civilised compared to what we faced next – ...

... was not that complicated. A few bus stops later and I took a guess that this was where it all happened. As it was a Monday evening, not much was opened and I roamed the empty streets in search of something edible. I passed many kebab shops, newsagents, ...

... dry high desert. We eventually arrived, unpacked the rather cross taxi man (we had made him drive along the most horrendous stoney road with very low suspension) and followed June and Ed for a guided tour of their piece of paradise. First impressions ...

... through densely forested mountains. We had to walk for one and half kilometres up from where the bus dropped us off, following a stoney path up hill through the dense jungle before we even got to the reserve. There are 14 volunteers here currently, ...

... wide, and about as many feet deep.  It was breathtaking, a virgin wilderness.  A shallow river ran through the stoney riverbed, roots dug deeper, branches reached higher, and vines thickened as they had for centuries.  Ferns, trees, moss, ...

... to Samba. As if I didnīt feel enough of a plum already, here I was getting a dancing lesson that I didnīt want... A stoney silence ensued until I realised what an absolute arse I was being, and how quickly I was cocking up potentially one of our ...

... all day. We've met up with some cockney lads we met in Fiji and have booked to do the Harbour Bridge climb with them on Monday. We also have tix for the Soweto Gospel Choir at the concert hall at the Sydney Opera House next Thursday. Neither of us were ...

... one sometimes misses after 4 months of traveling. Whatīs more is that there were three other people staying there who I already knew - a stoney faced yet friendly Lithuanian who I met in Livinston, and the Aussie couple who I met both at Finca Tatin and ...