 The Preposterous Project - Alex Armitage | All Comments |
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| 2nd November 2009 lema | interested on buying - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi Hi Guys, is this vehicle still available? can you post the photos too....I'm the owner of a small safari company in tanzania and looking to buy a pick up to tansfer our equipment to Mt. Kilimanjaro.www.serengetipridesafaris.com. Let me know i it's still available and is you are in Tanzania by |
| 28th October 2009 fadhili | landy for me - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi hi Alex i am interested to buy your landy if it is astill available.if in tanzania can i have my brother to have alook at it for me .looking foward to your reply. thanks |
| 8th September 2009 Niek Hoorweg | Land Rover purchase ? - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi Dear travellers, Saw your advert of your Land Rover Defender for sale. Not sure where you are now, but I am a potential buyer if you are still in Tanzania by mid- November. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards, Niek Hoorweg |
| 29th July 2009 sapience | travel - From: Cocos Keeling is Paradise? As you describe your journey it seems very fantastic and it could be seen in picture that it certainty a amazing place to visit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Cruz sapience |
| 4th June 2009 narelle | loved reading your stories - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali I have just had a short trip to Darwin from Melbourne ( Australia) and met people who love sailing. Your words were inspiring... I have friends from SA and Zimbawe so great to see your photos and again read of your adventures. Thanks |
| 30th May 2009 clive | Great! - From: Darkness From Above, And a Sad Farewell Best blog yet! |
| 18th May 2009 Martin | That's sad... - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi Hei Alex and Sara, this is a bit sad to see your Landy for sale after all the great adventures we read about... Shame that it won't be Mapp and me buying it and doing our own Afrika trip. Bad timing with the baby :-) Take care and hope to see you soon!? And: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!!! Martin |
| 15th May 2009 Chitra | Done?! - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi Alex -- what's next on the agenda? where, when, how? |
| 14th May 2009 Peter | landrover for sale - From: Travel in Africa, the Right Way: For Sale 1993 Land Rover Defender 200 Tdi please include photos to prove where it's been. Must include photo of next a.) excellent wave surf spot, b.) pouncing lion and c.) in river. Love the 200,000-k motor. What's price? |
| 14th May 2009 Steph B | Wow - From: How a Wooden Kitchen Spoon Might Have Saved Our Lives in the Kalahari My aunt used to carry a wooden spoon around in her purse - though it was to whack her unruly kids, not to fix a truck in the African bush! Way to go! |
| 21st April 2009 Peter | the wooden spoon - From: How a Wooden Kitchen Spoon Might Have Saved Our Lives in the Kalahari Alex sure wasn't born with a silver spoon! |
| 20th April 2009 Anna | Nooo!! - From: How a Wooden Kitchen Spoon Might Have Saved Our Lives in the Kalahari ALL of your photos?? Say it isn't so! |
| 21st March 2009 nate | good one Mark - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets 'why isn't africa in the UN?' |
| 8th March 2009 arwen Kettering | wow! - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets Hey Alex, Amazing stuff! Amazing photos too. What a photographic eye you have! Happy and safe travels. Arwen |
| 5th March 2009 Mark | - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3134039255315706758 |
| 4th March 2009 Big Mac | Epic - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets A-man - looks amazing out there. I've been following your blog for a while now (loved the SENDING). Elly I think will also soon start, which will be dangerous as she'll start jabbering about a similar trip for us.... Regards to Sarah and keep it coming! Big Mac. |
| 2nd March 2009 Anna | Wow wow WOW! - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets What an amazing experience, leaky truck and all. |
| 2nd March 2009 Jim O'Brien | from the O'Briens - From: We Are From Where the Sun Sets Hard to explain if you have not experienced it. Get to Rwanda to see the gorillas and chimps if you can. If you get to Tanzania let us kmow. We can hook you up with a great guide. We are doing SA next year. Please put us on your list as we only find out what you are up to by hounding Norm |
| 19th February 2009 garnette | Landrover heaven - From: Keetmanshoop Karma I imagine that your Land rover does not have the personality problems that mine did. It would completely stop all electrical activity EVERY time it rained in NJ. No starting, no running, no moving until fixed. Love your adventuring! |
| 16th February 2009 Devesh | Concrete Jungle - From: Keetmanshoop Karma Somehow your travels seem more exciting than the concrete jungle here... oh yeah and our wildlife.. Deven and Donia. ha.. Enjoying reading your tales.. keep them coming! and Have Fun!!! |
| 14th February 2009 steph | - From: Braai, Biltong and Croc Circles ditto on the earlier crocs comment. but WOW, what an amazing journey... i would say i'm jealous but it takes a bigger woman than me to deal with some of the mishaps you've had along the way... (YAY SARAH!) |
| 14th February 2009 Peter | nice adventures - From: Keetmanshoop Karma Great adventures! Love your photos of the desert, particularly the abandoned house in the desert. Someone once had dreams there and worked hard, only to give it up. Looks like it could be from a novel about desperation. And Sarah in the bathtub-- lovely. All africans speaking German -- that's wild! |
| 13th February 2009 Aron | Land Rover? - From: Keetmanshoop Karma I hope your Jetta does not read this. She will be jealous. |
| 13th February 2009 Arwen Kettering | The Dream - From: Keetmanshoop Karma Well Alex, Your certainly living the dream now! Your tales are great, your pictures are inspiring. Thanks for sharing your journey with the rest of us living the monotonous existence in babylon. Of course, you know you are making us all rather envious! |
| 14th January 2009 pear | - From: Braai, Biltong and Croc Circles Other than the fact that I have lost respect for you because you wear Crocs, it all sounds AMAZING!!! What a paradise... so happy you are doing it! |
| 14th January 2009 Peter | Nice adventures - From: Braai, Biltong and Croc Circles Dude, swimming with dolphins is so cool -- they charge mega bucks in Hawaii to do that! And some of those waves indeed look very nice for surfing. Cowabunga! |
| 14th January 2009 Alex | Metric Mania - From: Braai, Biltong and Croc Circles dude, you're missing out on all the fun back at work! Measurable metrics. We're now going to be judged on Hits, Bests, Corrects and scoops and we have set targets for each of those. I bet you're sorry you missed out. No end of croc-spots could compensate missing this experience! |
| 8th December 2008 ChitJi | Brilliant brilliant brilliant! - From: GR20, a Five-Part Story Alex, this is hilarious. I just discovered your blog, tx to facebook, and decided to begin at the beginning....loving it so far. |
| 29th November 2008 pear | - From: Under African Skies Au revoir, Cleone! Does this mean you will finally shave and get your hair cut, man? Put a shirt on while you're at it. Enjoy Africa! Can't wait to see more! |
| 29th November 2008 pear | - From: In Search of Pirate Treasure, Sorcery and Fresh Volcanic Mountain Air Great entry. But Mark wants to hear more about women in bikinis. |
| 27th November 2008 Martin | - From: Under African Skies Kind of sad that the sailing leg is over... On the other hand there are probably many more adventures waiting for you on the African continent. Is it just an impression or is your barb orange ;-) Take care, Martin |
| 25th November 2008 Alex | - From: Under African Skies Dude, what happened to seizing the day? And how did you manage to get all those adjectives into your blog entry? |
| 25th November 2008 Greg | You can' tQQUTITITitIITT SEND HHEddss - From: Shameless plugs and good omens Chi[pman covVVVEringg OBmamaAaa aon DDISney and VIAA earns can YOUOUFind RIechll he is sEEENUIndigng heeds/!!!!! |
| 25th November 2008 Greg | SEenidnddss HEEEdsss wwehrerer is Reeichllls/??? - From: Corporate refugee DIS down fourpionhjtoings WhayyYYY??? |
| 25th November 2008 Kim | Ahoy! - From: Under African Skies Well done. More from Africa now? Why do I keep thinking of Long John Silver? |
| 24th November 2008 clive | dude - From: Under African Skies dude, your blog lacks photos...of... me! whats up with that? |
| 14th November 2008 BuscoGusto | From Busco - From: In Search of Pirate Treasure, Sorcery and Fresh Volcanic Mountain Air I made the blog! |
| 13th November 2008 Peter | ummmm - From: In Search of Pirate Treasure, Sorcery and Fresh Volcanic Mountain Air Alex, Fascinating! Great writing practice for travel stories in the New York Times! But the book contract will be put on hold until we can read juicy tidbits about you, your friends and your adventures? We need CONFLICT! Antagonist, Protagonist! Cheers, Your friend. Peter PS, we're going to Ischgl Jan. 25-31. We''ll spend 3 days at Ischgl, probably a day at Galtur/Kappl and 3 days at St. Anton. |
| 12th November 2008 Kim | I love it with the photos! - From: In Search of Pirate Treasure, Sorcery and Fresh Volcanic Mountain Air Very cool. |
| 11th November 2008 nate | non-fuzzy cows - From: Layang-Layang Dragons i wanted to know about the cows watching the dragons crazy man. i'm sure they aren't fuzzy, but i'd imagine they are wearing leis. |
| 10th November 2008 Gregg Stern | YO A - From: Arrival in Mauritius Yo A ! P just reminded me to view your site . Wow dude you are living the dream . Really enjoy reading your blogs but want to see more photos with you in them. Gregg |
| 24th October 2008 Gerry | My son's personifications - From: This Hand Wants Another Beer And Other Personifications Thought of your post today. My son Andre (3 yrs old) was playing with his sunglasses and said: "my glasses want to be battlestar galactica." Thanks for the blog, Gerry |
| 22nd October 2008 Peter | too lazy? - From: Photos: Darwin to Mauritius Hmmm, a strange case with our boy in Africa. Maybe jungle rot? |
| 22nd October 2008 BuscoGusto | ps - From: Photos: Darwin to Mauritius your girlfriend is hot hahahaha then again, most chicks from vancouver seem to be anyway. |
| 22nd October 2008 BuscoGusto | No teaser shots? - From: Photos: Darwin to Mauritius Dude.... this is too much suspense! |
| 22nd October 2008 Kim | ooh - From: Photos: Darwin to Mauritius very cool pics. you're a good photographer. the beach in mauritius looks fab! |
| 22nd October 2008 Jay | Nice!! - From: Arrival in Mauritius Yo what up Alex. My bro's wife is from Mauritius, so if you see the little hong kong store, that is their shop. Hope all is well, love the commentary as it quite alluring. Cant wait to see you back here stateside in Cali. Cheers! Jay |
| 16th October 2008 Sarah | AMAZING! - From: Arrival in Mauritius Hi Alex! I have just caught up on the last few messages, and I am so jealous! Your descriptions are fantastic, and you often make me laugh out loud. I can't wait to see tons of photos, and to see you again. Stay safe, dry, and have a ton of fun for all of us who are stuck on dry land! |
| 15th October 2008 pear | - From: This Hand Wants Another Beer And Other Personifications Now, c'mon Alex, only girls "sip" their beers. Shame on you. But I'm glad Norfy's back. I was afraid the Skipper threw Gilligan off the boat. |
| 15th October 2008 pear | - From: The Rip Ah, swimming with sharks. Where's Norfy? I miss Norfy. |
| 15th October 2008 Peter | interesting read. - From: Cocos Keeling is Paradise? Nice descriptions. Post photos when you can. I want to see how blue is blue. Are there many pirates around that region? |
| 10th October 2008 Mark | iceland - From: Layang-Layang Dragons just got back. what an amazing country. too bad they are going bankrupt. where are you these days? |
| 25th September 2008 Lars | Mark has a point - From: Layang-Layang Dragons Good stuff Alex. I second Mark's request for pics of French girls, with an added request for Australian, Darwinian and Balinese pics. I'm sure you're really miffed about missing the end of investment banking as an industry! Lars |
| 24th September 2008 Mark | AHH Sparky - From: Layang-Layang Dragons "keep on keeping" added a sparkle to my day. |
| 22nd September 2008 Mapp | can you climb, on a boat? - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali Hei Alex, Great post! It could, almost, make me consider being stuck on a boat for days on end! There would still need to be a bouldering wall and a cycling track, of course. We (ie M&Ms) just got back from a week climbing in Verdon. We'll have to take you there one day (before you grow fins): the climbing is just world class. We stopped in Chambéry on the way back to attend Cécile's wedding. Looking forward to reading about your next adventure! Love, Mapp |
| 16th September 2008 Alex Armitage | - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali Will & Grace? Well, sort of. Yes and no. Or, as they say in Thailand.... same same but different. |
| 16th September 2008 Alex Armitage | - From: Layang-Layang Dragons they are dragons, nate. not cows. and they are not fuzzy. they are scary. |
| 15th September 2008 pear | - From: Layang-Layang Dragons Nate wants to know whether the cows are fuzzy. |
| 15th September 2008 pear | - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali Great entry... poetic & hysterical. Are James & Norfy the new Will & Grace? |
| 15th September 2008 norman armitage | what no job? - From: Layang-Layang Dragons you are doing what we all wish we could when you have the money you don't the time or energy go for it love dad |
| 15th September 2008 aron | I like kites - From: Layang-Layang Dragons keep on keeping on Alex. |
| 15th September 2008 Mark | catching up - From: Layang-Layang Dragons Just read through all the entries. Your writing has gotten so much better over the years (mine hasn't). The GR20 bit is hysterical! Most important, where are the pictures of the hot french girls? The trip sounds fantastic so far. So jealous. Pear wanted us to meet up with you in December/January. It's a long shot, but would be great if we could do it. Lu and I are trying to go to Iceland in 2 weeks. |
| 15th September 2008 Peter | corsica - From: GR20, a Five-Part Story Alex, good to know you still have American sensibilities! And this trip also sounds marvelous! PS I just gave my G35 a carwash but wish a horse had just stuck its head inside my tent. |
| 14th September 2008 Peter | Yo - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali Alex, very funny. I was talking the other day with Sarah the Gov and ... well written blog. |
| 13th September 2008 Peter Armitage | ! - From: Life at Sea, Darwin to Bali "When the sun sets the sky is the color of black ink, dotted with bright stars. There’s the Southern Cross, tilted on its side. The Milky Way looks like a stationary cloud, so high up it’s untouched by the winds. At some point the moon interrupts the black, spilling a white glow over everything. Only the brightest stars can compete. Then the blackness chases the moon away again..... At night it turns black, reflecting the ink and the void that loom above it, as well as the stars and eventually the moon when it rises. The sea is ominous because it looks to be deeper than the stars are high." Awesome brother .... |
| 3rd September 2008 pear | - From: Advice From Skipper James: Gotta love the Aussies. Sounds like an adventure... I am dying to see Bali. Have a great journey! |
| 3rd September 2008 Lesley Bosley | Corsica - From: GR20, a Five-Part Story Thanks for sharing your story. I found it very amusing and look forward to the next episode. We have been to Corsica quite a few times and have actually bought a house there (which we are now selling) but haven't been climbing in the mountains. Best wishes, Lesley Bosley |
| 2nd September 2008 simon thiel | have fun! - From: Advice From Skipper James: hey alex! good to hear from you and tks for posting these stories. seems you're having a great time and rightly so! enjoy and please keep on posting...you know, i need some entertainment in the office while doing all these vodafone fills :) enjoy! best, simon. |
| 2nd September 2008 Mike Serpe | Bon Voyage Cleo - From: Advice From Skipper James: The greek goddess will steer you clear of trouble. Keep posting, fun to follow your escapades while I take breaks from building decks and listening to your stereo speakers how many total onboard for this leg? contact from balli iif you ca |
| 2nd September 2008 Mapp | giddy up - From: GR20, a Five-Part Story Sorry Alex, I would have loved to help with your translation issue, but as you know, my French sucks. |
| 2nd September 2008 Martin | Brilliant - From: GR20, a Five-Part Story Sounds like a real adventure in the middle of Europe! - Will look into the translation of Giddy-up although I am almost certain that it wasn't French but Corsican language... Take care, Martin |
