Wow what an ordeal in Lima! I lost my bank card within 20 minutes of being in South America. Yep, right in the damn airport inside an ATM. I got the cash (Peruvian Soles) and the receipt but somehow overlooked retrieving my most valuable posession: my bank card. The ATMs are a bit different here and you have to hit a button to eject the card. I´d like to blame it on the fact that it was like 1:00 am and I had just gotten off of a long plane ride, but I think maybe I´m just retarded. So needless [View Full Entry]

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Well it´s about time I did a bit of a blog I suppose! My flight to Peru was via Toronto so I decided to stick around and visit my buddy Mr. Ty Backlun for a week. He and a friend of his picked me up in Toronto and took me back to Grimsby where Backs lives for a few welcome to Ontario beers. Ty´s girlfriend Laura had a delicious supper waiting for us but other than that it was nice to just chat and have a few cold ones. Now for Ontarians Niagara Falls is nothing special but I was thrilled [View Full Entry]

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Wow after all that money and such a short time later I'm coming home! I can accept it a little easier returning to decent weather and with a few extra bucks, unlike last year in November. That was way too depressing. Well we had a great time at the Moldenhauer's place and got to see a lot more of Coff's Harbour than we ever would have had we just been there at a hostel. Thanks so much to Devin and Kimberley for everything! The best was a place called Pet Porpoise Pool, where you could go and interact with animals [View Full Entry]

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Hey I'm staying in Coff's Harbour with a fellow Weyburnite. I called up Devin Moldenhauer, who's been living in Aus for like 6 years and he was kind enough to let me stay with him and his wife in their lovely home. Not only that, but Sofia and I are hanging out again until we both go home......on May 10th! That's right, I'm leaving early so I can return home with enough money to (hopefully) have some crazy times for the long weekend in May. So yeah, I was staying in Byron Bay at the Arts Factory jungle camp. I [View Full Entry]

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Farewell Red Racer. The station wagon got us all the way from Sydney to Melbourne and way up to Cairns. That's alot of km's and no car trouble. And the best we could do to show the car we love it was to sell it for $200 to a used car place. I already miss the ol' beast and wish I was sleeping in the back for free. Now Sofia and I are along the gold Coast at Surfer's Paradise and it's been nothing but R&R and sunshine. It turns out we don't get along as a couple so that's [View Full Entry]

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All that work on the rigs paid off and I'm here in Australia! Sofia met me at the airport in Sydney and she allready had a hostel for us to stay at so everything started out nice and simple. Now it's been a couple weeks and it hasn't felt much like a vacation so far. It's been a lot of trouble for Sofia and I to find a car and get it on the road legally. Hehe, in the meantime I've been driving it anyways. I guess the car's legal to drive but we just don't have the best insurance at [View Full Entry]

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I know my timing could be better. I seem to end up leaving the country for warmer regions just as winter's worst has passed. But hey, I worked a couple months on a drilling rig and I'm spending that hard earnt money in the good ol' land of Australia. I was working up in Alberta near Red Deer so it sure was costing me money to make money. Hotels, food, gasoline, and all that junk was adding up to a fortune. Luckily the pay on the rigs is uncomparable and I saved up enough that I won't have to work for [View Full Entry]

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Wow I've been home a month already! I just kinda gave up on the whole blog thing at the end of it all (it was too hard to admit that it would be over). Right up until my plane took off from Bangkok I was in denial about coming home to a winter blunderland. I've heard that many people who travel for a long period of time suffer from a bit of depression upon being home again for a while. In my case it's true. I barely care to leave the house. I'm sure that will pass as I find a [View Full Entry]

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Wow. I got ran over by a speeding motorbike and have stitches in my hand so I'm sorry this blog will be to catch up on pictures. Oh and don't worry....other than the hand I'm pretty much OK. [View Full Entry]

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Holy crap my month of Muay Thai has come to a close. I gotta say, I really wasn't ready to leave the camp but my tourist visa expires in a week anyways. The last week of training was definately the best. I stepped it up a notch and even started doing the long runs in the morning. The 10 km run takes me a bit over an hour and after the morning of training I slept about 5 hours until training in the afternoon. Then my favorite run in the afternoon was a nice 4 km up some hills past a [View Full Entry]

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