Oh my. Has it really been 4 years since smelling the green grass of Riley Park? 2010 is fast approaching and a return to Cow-town all but guranteed. Kirby "Dim Sim" Dillon has been out-of-state in the surrounds of Kelowna and other random North American locations for the past 18 months, and it is well time that someone chipped up and visited her. The past 3 and a half years have been well spent paying off the last Canadian effort, learning how to actually apply the teaching degree that I worked so hard for, making a mark in a new city, [View Full Entry]

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Lets be honest, the only reason Winnepeg exists is because early travelers who were moving from Vancouver to Toronto needed somewhere to pitch tent for the night. Welcome to Adelaide. Adelaide is a city of around 1 million, located a lazy 700km drive east of Melbourne. Bastard drive, had the choice of the fast direct route, or Australia's premier coastal drive on the "great ocean road". Guess which one i picked. That's right, not a freakin thing to look at other than a ridiculously over-grown koala in some place that now escapes me! So Winnipeg will be home for a while... [View Full Entry]

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Hot Hot Hot weather for the Australian white water kayaking championships in Launceston today! the Lonnie gorge is normally a pretty laid back place where families go for a picnic, kids go for a swim, and I run most days, but today open the dam upstream and add 24,000 litres of water a second to the equation and it becomes all good fun! Apparently it is the only place in the world with class 4/5 rapids that actually flow into a city... cool The rapids are level 4/5 out of a 1-6 grade range, so they are pretty full on! quite [View Full Entry]

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Yup, twas a goodie. Michael Franti & Spearhead were very much as good as we had expected, Eskimo Joe played a great set, couple of smokeys stepped up including Dan Sultan, Labjacd (lab-jacked ala Ozomatli in full flight!) Poodle, Marsh, Moo and Me in the Camper of luv caught up with lots of the folks from uni and had a ball. Throw in a Messy Kirbstar, Claire and Spidey and you have a good time just add water/beer.... Good weather, great bands, far better vibe than last year, and the bratwurst were as good as eva! [View Full Entry]

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Hi, Looks like the year will end the same way it began, in a camper/tent at the Falls Festival (see journal entry no.1) with Poodle, Moo, Messy Kirby, Claire, Spidey and who knows who else..... Featuring Michael Franti, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Hilltop Hoods and more, should be a cracker! These are some pics from last weekend in the caravan @ Bridport. It was a total fire ban because of the bushfires, so we were restricted to the anex and van for the evening. But, during the morning I took my trusty camera with me on a run around the town and [View Full Entry]

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Ahhh, routine. Up early, off to the pool for a swim before the kids get there, teach em how to blow some bubbles and then home for a snooze or a run as the whim takes me. That's about it at the moment folks. Ulverstone is a small town located pretty much dead centre on the northern coastline of Tasmania only 15min drive either side of Devonport and Burnie, Tassies 3rd & 4th largest 'cities'. Its a neat and tidy little place where beach culture (surf & lifesaving) is pretty popular. Its not located far from Cradle Mountain (our most popular [View Full Entry]

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Hiya, continuing with some blog enteries for the good people abroad, trying to entice them into a trip or two to Aus/Tassie with some sights from home. Please feel free to remove yourself from the mailing list if your sick of me clogging up pefectly good email space.... otherwise cheers! Been an interesting week settling back into the swing of Tassie life, very layed back... Figured a good way to run out all those Grand Final beers was to enter the Burnie 10, the "premier" 10km road race in Australia! Being a B10 virgin I headed off excitedly on Sunday morning [View Full Entry]

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Gday guys, Transit police. Friendly folk they are. Dion and I were were travelling home from a GF function in the city @ Nate Browns pub when we were nabbed for putting our feet on the seat. Are you serious?!?!?! Being that we were slightly lubricated we attempted to wrangle our way out of the charges, but when it was evident that we were no chance the smartarse comments came out. Dions claims of needing to elevate the lower extremities due to intermittant Claudication were recorded, the officers refused to believe that my mailing address was 820 2nd Ave Calgary and [View Full Entry]

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Hi Guys, Just landed in sunny Melbourne a couple hours ago, greeted at the gate by the grin of one D. Mitchell, and was I glad to see him! I had left home in Cowtown about 32 hours earlier, and it was a bit of a trek.... My last few days in Calgary were pretty busy, taking in my first Flames game thanks to the generousity of Grant, seeing off Matty back to NZ, hitting the zoo for a nice afternoon 'date' with Muks, another keg party (minus the keg stands this time...) with Lynn and Brandon, and a big night [View Full Entry]

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Hi Guys, Well, only 7 sleeps to go till I touch down in sunny Melbourne! Been pretty busy the last week playing cricket with eskimo's, making curling look like brain surgery and giving Matt a decent send off... Last monday the temp was about 27 deg, sunny and beautiful, by Saturday morning it was -3deg with wind chill, and Matt and I set off to Riley Park in search of the mercy rule. It wasn't to be. Despite making a point to wear 3 tea-shirts and (i shit you not) 5 jumpers & 3 beanies, some genius decided that the [View Full Entry]

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