Travel

This is a video I took of some cloud moving over the top of Volcano Concepcion on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. The speed has been increased by a factor of eight.

My holiday in Nicaragua was quite simply the most eye-opening, amazing trip I’ve ever been on. I’ve never seen such extremes in my life. I went to the upper class club “Hipa Hipa” in Managua and then drank Toña in a bar made of sheet iron on the island of Ometepe. I’ve never lived in such extremes, from the very nice Holiday Inn in Managua to sleeping at a place that only had a fan and no hot water on Ometepe (when there was water at all). It was just amazing to experience the two extremes. ...

I was going to complete what happened on the rest of the roadtrip… but screw it. One of the highlights was when a girl I was chatting to at some bar in Asheville, North Carolina, basically proposed to me. If it weren’t for the 5 pints of Guinness I’d had already, I might have even considered the offer. I don’t even know how that makes sense. All I’m really trying to say is that a fair chunk of the pictures from the trip are online here. ...

It almost seemed like we were never going to get on the road the Friday night of the road trip. I had left my camera tripod at Tobacco Road from doing photos the night before, and thinking that I might need to use it (I never did end up using it), I drove all the way to Miami to pick it up after work. Eventually my partner in crime Eddie and I left my place at 9pm … that’s a bloody late when we were intending to make it to Jacksonville that night (about a 6 hour drive, sticking to the speed limit). ...

I’m currently waiting in the Melbourne airport for the gate to open for my flight to Los Angeles. I’ve taken a quick picture of the plane I’ll be flying back in so here it is: Anyway, seeya to all the people I caught up with in Oz. To the people I didn’t catch up with, I’ll see you around sometime. I don’t know when I’ll be returning to Australia again, so I expect to see you overseas, ok? Good.

Back in Fort Lauderdale it’s currently 1:13am. This means that pretty soon I should be getting some sleep… yerr, that’s just not going to happen. A couple of more hours and then I catch this bastard economy flight to Melbourne. I arrive at 12:30pm in Adelaide to a spanking new airport! It is working now, right??? Last time they were having fuel problems or something and we had to use the old building. Well, whatever, I never really had anything to say for this post, I’m only writing something coz I was able to find a free wifi spot.

I’m heading back to Australia for nearly 2 weeks at the end of this month. I’ll be in Adelaide from the 22nd April till May 2nd. During the weekdays I’ll actually be working but my weeknights should be relatively free. On the weekends I have to fit in a bachelor party, wedding and probably a 21st and a 50th as well. It would still be awesome to catch up any friends back there! Let me know if you’ll be around by sending an e-mail to daecks@gmail.com. Due to me losing a lot of my contacts, it’s probably pretty likely I don’t have your number.

Slowly yet surely I’m returning to normal, so here are some photos! None of them have any comments yet, but whatever (update: some do). This is the result of me going through a third of the photos I’ve taken. There is still another third I cannot get off my iPod (unknown device problems which I just can’t solve - update: I’ve fixed my iPod and have uploaded those photos) and the other third is in Wagga. God knows when I’ll be able to get stuck into them. ...

Ahh, good ol’ Loxton. How can I describe this place? How about this… Heart rate anywhere but Loxton: ********************** Heart rate in Loxton: …..*………*………*…….. Well, something like that. Loxton has changed a little this time around. The high school has undergone a massive overhaul and a lot of the buildings I had classes in are gone. My primary school has also changed a bit in that “the mound” has been demolished. Ahh, the mound. Such fond memories of rolling down that thing and trying to stop from falling off. ...

Cool. I am now back in Adelaide after spending a couple of days in Melbourne with my fantastic hosts Steve and Jen. I had an awesome time back there even though I was as sick as a dog (as in really bad cough, earaches) and still getting over jetlag. But none of that matters as I am back home. I’m just waiting for my brother to finish the dishes (shock! horror!) and then I’m heading off for a walk down Rundle mall for old times sake. After that I’m going to head off to Loxton for Christmasy stuff, and I’ll be returning to Adelaide on Boxing day at which point I’ll catch up with all the Adelaideans. ...