Drew Prineas
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The Journey has now reached 5!
Drew's Dribbling Stories celebrates his Journey's around the world in the best way he knows how... Through story... and photos.
The Journey Part 5 will begin in Cape Town where the first month I will witness Australia create history in winning the football World Cup in South Africa. From there it will be other parts of Africa.
Also included on this site are the best stories from JP4.
If you want to know what happened earlier here's the link to JP's 1-3 http://thedribbleman.tripod.com/
This could well be the last big journey so if it is I may well finish it off and honour Seinfield's Rochelle Rochelle with a twist.
'A young backpackers 'hopeful' erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.'... We'll see...
Travel Blog Posts
Heavy Metal with some Clippers
Published: May 22nd 2012North America » United States » California » Los Angeles
April 28th 2012
The thought process was that this could be my last hostel experience ever because who knows what lies ahead. I enter the dorm and I am in a dorm full of woman. It’s happened before I’ve put down Drew in the booking and because of Drew Barrymore they think I’m a woman. In Hindsight I should have gone out with the Canadian girls but I wanted a quiet night to catch up on the blog. I was miles behind again and ploughed through two stories. Unfortunately they were going to a music festival out in the sticks two nights later and weren’t coming back until after I left. I envisaged these girls could have created one last great drunken story but instead it wasn’t meant to be. Instead I went seeking out my own fun. I ... read more
My friends Need for a Bigger Chin
Published: May 14th 2012North America » United States » California » San Diego » Ocean Beach
April 11th 2012
I’m waiting in line for my 10:30pm bus out. I hear a young guy questioning security near the carryon check-in. Guilt written all over his face, giving himself away he says, “Wait! Hang on… What? What do you mean you have to check my bag? What am I not allowed to take on board?” “You know drugs, knifes, guns, that sort of stuff.” He stands there for a bit as if his brain couldn’t comprehend. Either that or making sure he left his AK47 at home. “Oh, okay then.” A lady standing in front of me just missed her bus because they changed the boarding gate and didn’t make an announcement. “Mam, we can’t turn the bus around just for you I’m sorry. We have another bus that will leave at 130 in the morning.” This ... read more
April 5th 2012
My footsteps are making inroads into the field of white land that’s before me. I am in the mountains and less than half an hour away from the biggest little city in the world. It maybe a poor second to Las Vegas but what Vegas has Reno can match it with other activities that surround in multiple directions. That could be the nice problem with Reno. There are too many other things to do and see to worry about gambling. I came here for cheap, nice accommodation to just relax a bit, have a game of ten pin bowling and maybe explore a little of the edges. With this Reno can leave you questioning whether it’s crap or actually quite a nice stopover? Casinos weren’t around much until the early 1960’s when the resorts came in. ... read more
April 5th 2012
I tease myself too much sometimes. The holy grail of my USA journey was to somehow get to Montana State and see the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. 5 months earlier I had to turn back whilst in east Wyoming. This time around I was in Idaho and even closer but again I turned back reaching my final crest in the magnificent Craters of the Moon. Once there it was a gradual decline, hitting neutral in the car, crawling my way over the speed limit down the mountains toward the coast of California and my eventual, inevitable flight home. Idaho doesn’t get too much of a wrap in the states. Dominated by mountain landscape, there is one plain that’s an arc shape that goes along the south. The main city is the capital Boise. Which ... read more
USA's beauty that only Americans seem to know About
Published: April 30th 2012North America » United States » Oregon » Columbia River Gorge
April 5th 2012
The states continually come up with surprises. New ways to explore and discover are just around the bend. Little did I know I had covered parts of the Oregon Trail months earlier only this time, I would start from its grand finale - the Colorado River. The Oregon Trail is an unknown road for most tourists travelling the US. In 1803 President Jefferson sent instructions to some guys called Lewis and Clarke to explore the Missouri River and other rivers for a direct route to the Pacific Ocean. The route they found is still partially used but not entirely because it wasn’t suitable for wagon transportation. Their 1804-06 adventure confirmed that there were two major rivers heading out of the northern Rockies but no easy route through the land from the east to the west. Therefore ... read more
April 5th 2012
It’s old and run down but somehow the people of Seattle make the Pike Place Market refreshing. Perched up on a hill looking down to the waters of the massive Puget Sound it is a must see of any visit to Seattle. Especially when the sun comes out. The joyous occasion for the locals is there for all to see, as a very unusual weekend was bestowed upon us. I researched a little and it informs me that Seattle is the 44th city in USA for rainfall with 38 inches of rain a year. So its reputation as raining every day is false. It’s cloudy 201 days a year and partly cloudy 93 days. So forever cloudy is better suited. I had something similar (blue skies) happen to me when I was in Bergen, Norway. That ... read more
The Hipsters of USA - Revealing Portland
Published: April 21st 2012North America » United States » Oregon » Portland
April 5th 2012
There is no-one to go out with on this cold spring night so I go it alone. A good ole American dive bar is the only option in these situations... By the end of the night I would have had a taste of USA’s best beer drinking state, Oregon, and end up in a Japanese restaurant turned gay and lesbian country music karaoke night. This is Oregon and I hadn’t even hit one of my top American cities Portland or its grand landscapes. It was going to be hard to top Redwoods performance so I looked for a bit of city life to break it up. I made it as far north on my crappy spare tyre to Eugene. The hipster capital of Oregon, which in turn means the hipster capital of USA. To get an ... read more
The best chance to become a greenie
Published: April 17th 2012North America » United States » California » Redwood National Park
April 4th 2012
There are too many superlatives to describe this place. They are trees yes, but not normal trees. These are Redwoods, the tallest living beings in the world. So outstanding the sight of these trees towering over you - Even a popped tyre on the slushy forest bed can’t dampen the spirits of this awe-inspiring visual. Who cares about the rain raging down on you as you leverage your way to release the bolts. It’s a Redwood forest your in, easily the best motivational tool to become a tree hugger. So I was back in USA again for one last hurrah for JP5. I flew into Oakland Airport this time to cover the North West of the states. A flight delay meant I arrived after midnight, which was fine by me. My idea was to yet again ... read more
Blurred visions and a lost half hour at Spring Break
Published: April 14th 2012North America » Mexico » Yucatán
March 13th 2012
It’s so clear it’s like the real world out there. As you put your mask on, your fins and then your regulator in your mouth. You leap into a new world. By the end you’d either push through the fear factor or turn back and say, “This is not for me.” For those who go into the dark caves near Telum, Mexico you will be rewarded. Just when diving looked like tapering off for me, along comes a dive of another kind. You’ll get blurred visions like putting on old mans glasses on and a sense you are in the warm part of the baby pool. Telum is the first major town coming north from Belize and what an introduction to Mexico. The town is just a small town, which doesn’t really excite much, which is ... read more
The Fish Whisperer
Published: April 9th 2012Central America Caribbean » Belize » Belize Barrier Reef » Caye Caulker
February 26th 2012
A heavily tanned and leathery humans back is what you look for. Looking at him you’d think he couldn’t be that old? But at 73 years of age Juni provides one of the most unique snorkelling trips you’ll ever do. You come here to Belize’s Caye Caulker to dive the Blue Hole, leaving, knowing full well that you won’t be whispering about how good the Blue Hole was. Instead telling everyone who’s heading this way to go and see the “fish whisperer” (A name Juni hates) Part of the English colonies, Belize still has Queen Elizabeth on every note. With that connection it makes Belize the only relief for non-Spanish speakers in Central America. Even with the ease of the English language we only visited two places. The first was Belize City. The former capital city ... read more
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