March 2010

Tasmanian Buddhist Dentist

March 26, 2010

Spotted in Hobart, Tasmania

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Trekking Saboteurs!

March 25, 2010

I mentioned in a previous post that, while trekking the Overland Track is Tasmania, we had an absurd series of encounters with a group of fellow hikers that led them to believe that we were complete idiots and/or actively trying to sabotage their trip. Here’s the story.

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Blue Man Group

March 24, 2010

I’m not sure when we started noticing these, but while we don’t have blue man crosswalk signs in the States (as far as I know), it quickly became clear that everywhere else in the world does have them. They vary greatly in their design. Finland (not surprisingly) had the most graphically polished version. Vietnam on [...]

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Trekking the Overland Track

March 10, 2010

Starting on January 30th we spent 8 days trekking 61 miles through Tasmania on the Overland Track. Google “top 10 treks in the world” and the Overland is likely to pop up on the list. It’s not the most extreme altitude trek in the world (the highest point, not counting side-trips is only about 1250 [...]

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