jarrodandgabe

Getting very excited now. Only one week until we leave for Tassie. 110cc's of pure motorcycle power.... Well, ok, I will level will you. They are only Honda CT110's, otherwise commonly known as Postie Bikes. I am heading off next Sunday on the Spirit of Tasmania with one of my best mates, William Rayner. We have modified our bikes to carry panniers and our swags. Its a lot of weight for one of these little things, but its still going to be faster than riding a push bike..... we hope. Tonight we will go over our route and try and lay down the specifics of the route. There is only one section of great concern, from the North West of Tassie (Marriwah) to the Central East (Corrina) looks to be about 250km. The range on our ... read more

Darjeeling, the Tea capital of India. Only problem is 'High Tea' was bloody expensive if you had it in a posh hotel with tea and cakes! Which we did do... but wont do again! However the tea everywhere else is dirt cheap and really good. Out of 6 days in Darjeeling it rained for 6 days. Not that we little Aussies cared about that. We LOVE rain as we dont get enough of it back home. Darjeeling's rainfall for July is around 1600mm. In Benalla (Jarrods home town) the average rainfall for a whole year is around 500mm (although much less in recent years). It was such a relief to step out of the 'share jeep' into a cool climate 'hill station'. Its at the lower range of the Himalaya, and its elevation is at 2134m. ... read more

In many ways traveling is very similar to being in prison. Strange comparison? Think about it... You only possess two changes of plain clothes to wear for a very long time and at times you have to re-use undies! They get stinky, you have to hand-wash them and if they get a hole, bad luck, you have to keep wearing them. Sometimes you feel so dirty and stinky that you could just sit down on the street, pull out your tin camping mug and start begging along side the locals, maybe then they will stop hassling you. In prison there is a hierarchy, drop the soap and you're not only in trouble, your going to be taken advantage of. Traveling, drop your guard and you’re also about to get screwed. How many times do we have ... read more

After being re-engerised from the 8 hours of luxury in the Business class lounge in Heathrow airport, a sleepless flight aboard a British Airways flight, we then arrived in Nairobi Airport, Kenya. We patiently waited whilst the friendly immigration officer took his time to have a chat to each and every passenger in the 200 people long queue in Nairobi airport! Then waited another half and hour for our bags to come through, we then found Judy and Colin waiting for us in the arrivals lounge. Welcome to East Africa! Thankfully we were just in time to catch the early morning shuttle directly to Arusha in Tanzania. On the map its about 250km away and the drive looks like it should be on a well made bitumen road and should only take 2-3 hours. However, we ... read more

Diving, climbing, canyons and eating. What a life! Dahab was our holiday from our travels... The diving in Dahab, the east side of the sinai coast is spectactular! Quite little town with mostly independent travellers which has a view of Saudi Arabia across the water with Jordan and Israel to the north. Although we have both been snorkelling all our lives and we love the ocean, only 6 months ago we go our open water scuba dive cert. With only 5 dives logged before coming here we knew that it was going to be fun, but we didn't know that they would probably be some of the best dives of our lives. After a refresher dive we did 2 other shore dives around dahab. Down to about 18m and fish absolutely everywhere! Coral that is ... read more