Nomadical Sabbatical

There’s a fantastic radio station in Auckland that plays consistently good music…something so uncommonly rare that in comparison, unicorns, leprechauns and good Australian TV dramas are positively common. Unfortunately as soon as we left the city this winning station was replaced with local ‘country’ radio, immediately adding roughly 3 decades to the age of anyone ...

  What is the most New Zealand thing in the world? I’d say a rugby team made-up of entirely just Hobbits eating ‘Fush & Chups’ and sharing their rather undulating field with about ten thousand sheep. Can’t say the poor guys would do too well though judging by the size of some of the lads ...

I love to travel but I hate getting there. Airports are about as fun as a kick in the nuts, ladies please use your imagination about how that feels, but trust me, there are better ways to spend your time. Security guards who have somehow have forgotten to smile, more lines than at a party ...

  Adventure: “An unusual, exciting, occasionally hazardous, rewarding experience”. How many of us long for some sort of an adventure to whisk us away from our desks and the day to day grind of life into a brave new world of novelty and experience? I know I certainly did before I made the decision to ...

If Leonardo Da Vinci could see what the average person looks like today he may have revised his famous Vitruvian Man sketch to depict a guy fresh from the set of the biggest loser with moobs so large they’d make Pamela Anderson’s plastic surgeon weep. The Ascent of modern man seems to now be more ...

Around the time that sharp sticks were still a new invention, fear had a very real and useful purpose, it stopped you from dying. Some things in life we should be scared of: Sabertooth Tigers, Honey Badgers, zombies, insane murderous cannibal hillbillies, I could go on! The point here is that there is a very ...

The piercing scream of a 10 year old girl echoed across the serene waters of the bay, provoking gasps of concern from 3 local fisherman and a bewildered look from a nearby Caribou. There are only a few moments in life when a grown man can get away with screaming like a schoolgirl, I feel ...

I’d imagine that any long term travel you did in the company of someone like Miss South Carolina could be considered slow travel. This is not what I mean. What I mean by slow travel, is the process of taking the time to enjoy the ride; it’s going that little bit further down the rabbit hole, diving in and ...