And just like that, I was a gypsy again. Real life was over (it lasted nearly 7 months – and that’s a personal best!) and unemployment had finally struck. I’d been eagerly anticipating this moment Read more…
Somebody recently pointed out that I turn 30 next year, and subconsciously I started preparing myself for my impending demise… Come 30 I even thought my licking days would have to be over… And Read more…
It’s amazing how life rolls on… One random Chapter after the next…. CHAPTER 1- Growing Up Back in 1984 1984 -1980somrtthing Also in the 80s CHAPTER 2 – Growing a brain This is not actually Read more…
Once upon a new years eve… in a car bar… because you don’t actually have to go out to have fun… Bungee jumping, licking a president, reproducing, writing a novel, taxidermising a pet, starting an Read more…
I’m not sure how I’ve survived 2012: I’ve fallen 869 times, crashed 3 motorbikes, blown 17 bicycle tyres, licked any and everything, hitched 2687 km, cycled 2953 km, motorbiked 3214 km, sailed some 13 060.8 Read more…
[continued from http://barefootedgypsy.blogspot.com/2012/11/into-abyss-but-blip-in-ocean.html] Week 3 and still we hadn’t caught up to the drowning sun. The heavens still had balls of fire to fling about. The ocean still held suicidal fish to die upon our Read more…
“When I grow up, I wanna be a pirate.” – Former me, age 5ish… And I really did. I wanted to swing by ropes from boat to boat waving plastic swords (all swords are plastic Read more…
TEN…. NINE…. EIGHT… Thoughts are racing around my head like a giant disorganized herd of pregnant water buffalo playing ice hockey with sharpened samurai swords: Are we actually ready? What have we forgotten? Will we Read more…
I’ve spent a good portion of my grown-up life chasing mythical creatures: mermaids, unicorns, leprechauns, “the one”, and now a new sort of quest has evoked me – the dragon hunt. Because my flying academy Read more…
The purple seas swarmed rigorously about me as I tried in desperation to locate south and; more importantly, the captain. Clearly the breathing of fresh Southern hemisphere air was too much for him to handle, Read more…