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Sailing Around the World: Is It Safe?

Is it safe?

Throughout our journey, many of our friends and family members have been concerned about how dangerous it can be to travel.  Obviously we all know that some things are inherently safe like staying at an all inclusive resort and never leaving the property.

You can stay in your shell like this hermit crab in Fakarava.

And some things are inherently unsafe (think standing on a dark street corner in Tijuana) when it comes to traveling.

One can presume that it only gets worse when the sun goes down. petracross

Sailing can be safe, as long as you’re smart.

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3 shirts for 3 years

Well we were gonna lead into this entry with some intro along the lines of “we have changed appearances several times over the years, and so has our blog.”

Then Greg put together a collage of pictures of us and he realized something…

When you wear the same 3 blue t-shirts for 3 years straight, well, it makes your “appearance” about as consistent as humanly possible.

Stuff the witty intro then!

Hey everyone, we’re changing up the blog!

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Heroes of the skies

Alice Springs, NT, AU

There was one thing the camels, or the train that replaced the camels, couldn’t help us with.

Something that was a serious point of consideration for us when we decided to come out into the pretty much completely uninhabited ‘Red Centre’ of a country that takes a sense of personal pride from the fact that a swift and painful demise is never more than a few feet away even in the most urbanized of areas…

…oh lets not forget the ever present and very real threat of detesticulation…

And that thought was “Ok, so what happens if we’re a few thousand miles from the nearest hospital…

(because here, that actually happens somewhat often)

…and we end up getting detesticulated?  What do we do!?!

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Human Detesticulation and Baby Kangaroos

Alice Springs, NT, AU

One of our favorite stops in Alice Springs was the Kangaroo rescue center

kinda obvious why…

Where we learned more about the complicated relationship the people of Australia have with their semi-official national ambassador…

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A noble demise

Adelaide, SA, AU

The Beast in sleep mode

We were asked if we thought we got ripped off and lost money on our Aussie car when it broke down and we were forced to scrap it.  Some of you may recall that in New Zealand we managed to sell our car for the same price we paid for it (oh, and NOT spend a few hundred on maintenance in the process…) so at first the comparison burned us a little bit.  Then we did the math:

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We feel like Pilgrims

Karumba, QLD, AU

For our Thanksgiving festivities in Australia Tiffany made pumpkin pie.

Which, is kinda not a big deal right?

…until you realize that Australians are not familiar with the concept of putting pumpkins in a pie one would eat for dessert.  That means no canned pumpkin to fill the pie.

Oh, and while we’re on the topic: They also don’t know what graham crackers are either so, consequently, no premade graham cracker crusts.

(how do you people LIVE!?!)

What this means is that in order to get to this:

a hallmark of American cuisine

 

Tiffany had to start with these:

an Australian pumpkin

And just kinda figure out the rest.

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Self-propelled ski lift

Jindabyne, NSW, AU

Having developed a bit of confidence learning the fine art of falling down hills with spikes attached to our feet and discovering how much we actually kinda liked trudging over frozen tundra…

who knew, right?

…we decided it would make a lot more sense just to drag our snowbaords to the top of a mountain and slide down that way.

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Chairlift PLZ!

Jindabyne, NSW, AU

Travel is all about learning about other cultures right?  How other people do things differently from us and how that works out for them.

Like snow…in August.

For example, Australians don’t really believe in chairlifts at their ski resorts and when Americans show up it provides a source of much amusement to them.

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