Tripping Out Alone

I headed out at the end of June to visit family and friends in Europe for a ridiculously short trip of ten days - it involved a stop over in Bangkok on the way to catch up with friends, two days in Paris, four in my 'home' town of Caversham and three in London...and then back to Bangkok. I flew Gulf Air and while not a fancy as Emirates it got me there, and back to Bangkok without problems. My only advice would be not to book the gluten free meals, they are far too weird.

January New Year 2015 was spent in Bangkok with a complicated departure to Australia early in the year when Air Asia, while confirming their flights up until the last minute had to cancel flights to Melbourne. It meant a swift change of plans and a last minute ticket on Virgin to meet the girls in Melbourne before flying up to the Gold Coast and then on to Byron. A beautiful few days with family and friends, time in the rainforest and a great day at the beach complete with dolphins set us up for the week and then it was back to Melbourne for three days before returning to Bali. February A trip to Vietnam with the Year 12's to promote the GINBali 2015 conference saw me in Hanoi just before the TET Festivities, freezing cold and lots of activities to do as well as negotiating a return in the summer with music venues and bars. I left the school group to go to Saigon while I went to Hoi An to meet Green Shoots school and Laureen, who would be part of the summer trip. I flew b

Christmas in Bali Wet season is on the island, the tree in the garden is dropping red flowers everywhere and the ground floor is awash in what looks like hibiscus tea. It's the ending of the year and my bags are unpacked until January 1st when I head of for Australia and Byron Shire, life in the forest for a week with Severen. Closing down the year of travel and going over the remarkable journeys I have taken with a combination of cheap flights, advance planning, hospitable friends and generous hosts, I am, again, in awe of how wonderful my life is. I live with a sense that at each turn of fate I have some how had a lucky escape, and while each person has their own interpretation of happiness and freedom mine exists in my ability to see, engage and experience many different aspects of global living. Even though I am not the explorer or the gung ho writer of youthful ambition I still manage to satisfy my instinct for curiosity and adventure. 2011 brought me to Singapore twice, th

 It's July 2022, and hard to figure out what happened to my Tripping Out Alone Blog..  I think I just stopped blogging because I stopped tripping out alone, then I stopped tripping out.  Since January 2020 I have not left Australia... however before that... The last post was post my trips to Aceh, Africa and China.. "I went to five countries in Africa and China - China twice and about to go again.. I have discovered more, more or less on my doorstep and I keep going."  I did go to Shanghai, then Beijing, then made a fantastic adventure trip with Joe, Robi and Nee to Yunnan Province, that  was in June /July of 2017 and I returned for my last year of teaching in Bali.  In 2018 I went back to the UK for Easter and in the summer  I went to visit friends in Myanmar and Bangkok and I went on a three or four day tour of Java with the band Navicula who were doing a 31 day tour, and by August I was flying to Darwin and taking up a position in Tennant Creek Primary School on the pr