Tiffany and Greg Around the World
Bar Manager: Greg, You’re sober right?
Greg (bartending): Uh, yeah?
Bar Manager: Right, you’re the only one so do you mind driving the ambulance to the hospital while the medic works on the patient?
Greg: uh…
Do I get to use the siren?
Continue reading “Sure I’ll drive the Ambulance”
As travelers over the past few years
(wow, that’s still weird to say)
Our history of celebrating the birth of our home nation has ranged from “cowboy guitars around a campfire” as interpreted by the people of Bora Bora, to launching fireworks into an Australian Blizzard.
No matter where we have been, we’ve done our best to take our traditions and blend them with the people we’re around. To create a little celebration of America with local flair, if you will. This year is no different
We enjoyed hot dogs:
Alongside other iconic American foods
Continue reading “Happy 4th of July, Comrade Americans!”
518 people
About 466 miles from “Cans“
Sometimes, oh and without warning of course, the whole town just separates from the mainland and becomes an island for a few months…so you want to watch out for that.
and the largest gator (sorry…CROC…because it matters while it’s eating you…) ever caught in the history of the planet? Yeah, right down the road.
28ft, 4in long. This is a to-scale model!
Welcome to Karumba
Tiffany’s been having a craving for rice pudding lately. For some weird reason she gets this craving every few months (this and Mexican food. Nope, not supposed to make sense). In our previous lives this was easily and promptly solved by a trip to Trader Joe’s…
Unfortunately for her, they have not yet expanded to Australia. So she took her tastebuds online. Now, Tiffany prides herself as a rather “uncomplicated” cook. She can cook, and very well thank you, but generally she looks for what both Greg and her agree are the “3 hallmarks of good food” –
if the recipe calls for more than about 3 ingredients, she’s usually just not interested.
Fills one up without getting them fat
We would choose to eat it again
That being said, since we’ve been traveling and eating restaurant food or quick stuff, both of our desires to cook have increased (a little bit anyway). The great thing about living on a boat is that you learn lots of new recipes that fit our criteria exactly.
What is awesome is that both of us have learned to make lots of new things that only take a few ingredients and we’ve gotten to the point that if it has 5 ingredients we’re willing to put the effort in.
Especially if one of those ingredients is coconut milk.
Continue reading “Coconut rice pudding”
It is once again time for Greg’s birthday entry-
One can always rely on family to ask the questions everyone else is quietly wondering about:
“Greg, it’s been almost 4 years now.
Aren’t you worried about the world just passing you by?”
The exact words change from member to member but it’s a question family members have asked us more than once over the past 2 years.
And by “world” we know what’s meant:
Career, Paychecks, 401Ks, retirement, medical / optical / dental benefits, long term financial plan, you name it. A life beyond the next 2 months and a gig that falls into the category of “reliable income.” Something I can expect to have for an entire taxable year that will pay a wage somewhere near what someone of “our experience” should be getting. One that would possibly involve trading in the sails for a desk…or at least a consistent cell phone number.
Freaking money people. Cash. An income. Jobs. Mortgages and the like.
Or as some call it “a REAL life.”
When are we going to get off our butts and stop letting REAL LIFE pass us by?
Continue reading “Life passing us by”
So keep in mind that sign, and the information contained thereupon, as we go though our entertainment options on Thursday Island for the month we were there.
After the arduous process of “studying” for our Responsible Service of Alcohol test we passed our course and became certified Australian bartenders!
About 48 hours later came our first outback pub job over at Thursday Island, Australia.
One hitch – where the heck is Thursday Island?
Now we know what you’re thinking –
Well since we’re going over adventures in outback bar tending, it’s probably about time we started updating the grog files to keep us with us.
We’ll be doing a new grog files for each state we visited in Australia but this week is all about our overall experience, which can be summed up this way:
Australia has a great libations industry –
It’s just not where you’d expect to find it.
What this pretty much means is that as long as you avoid the beer, Australia has a lot to offer.
Because when you pronounce the “R” in “Cairns” the locals genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about.
Seriously people, it’s a word. In our common language. You can look it up.
Who uses a silent “R”!?!?!
They have this giant outside pool right next to the ocean that anyone can use and the fish sculptures are a symbol of the city.
Oh, and just in case you’re asking. “Guys? Why do they have a giant public pool right next to the ocean? Can’t people just swim in the ocean?”
Why yes, yes they could. Right up to the moment where the giant crocodiles that are all over the place ate them.
Which would of course lead you to then ask “Guys, didn’t you just go diving in that water?”
3 people
1 frigging huge campah
5 days
1786 miles
1 vast barren wasteland that inspired the Mad max movies
Some dinosaurs
And let’s not forget it’s us right? So…a boat. There needs to be a boat.
And this is how all that turned out…
