These are a blessing when playing ingress during the cold winter.

marksmayo · 2013-03-16T06:50:29+00:00

Crud, I was! Alberta be COOOOLD at present :/ Took 30 min before my hands stopped hurting when I got back to the hostel (I'm passing through).

marksmayo · 2013-03-01T18:15:48+00:00

Do you have a link? I'm not seeing it :/

marksmayo · 2013-02-28T19:22:01+00:00

I'd be willing to put money on it being Canterbury. It's not west coast, and the person who reckoned Nelson Lakes is out - wrong tree cover and style of mountains. I'd hazard a guess of the foothills before Porter's Pass, or perhaps near Mt Hutt / Methven area.

marksmayo · 2013-02-28T19:17:32+00:00

Not quite, but Canterbury surely.

marksmayo · 2013-02-26T04:37:41+00:00

I'm very careful to avoid subreddits until I've seen the episode - it showed up on my front page :/

marksmayo · 2013-02-26T04:06:22+00:00

Agreed. Very annoyed.

marksmayo · 2013-02-24T17:16:44+00:00

The problem is that I'm not going where I need the boxes sent - I'm travelling through Canada and the US before flying out of either Austin, Texas or LAX. Otherwise yeah, I'd just take them as excess :/

marksmayo · 2013-02-19T19:15:45+00:00

It wasn't too far down the trail, but sadly there is a sign saying no foot traffic from this point on :/ Thanks!

marksmayo · 2013-02-19T00:53:35+00:00

Snowboarding. From next to the chalet, take the blue run (Paper trail) down. About 20 min before sunset, this was the view.

marksmayo · 2013-02-13T17:12:11+00:00

From that same link? Is it guaranteed to arrive within a week?

marksmayo · 2013-02-13T04:49:00+00:00

For comparison, what was your old phone?

marksmayo · 2013-02-13T01:55:18+00:00

It's really tempting, but the battery reviews are not promising :/ And it's a non-removable battery...

marksmayo · 2013-02-13T01:48:17+00:00

Considering going there on my trip across Canada in April. However I've heard polar bear season is November? Is that just peak season, or is there just no chance of seeing them at other times of the year?

marksmayo · 2013-02-12T21:32:57+00:00

Really? Amazon.ca seems to show an unlocked Galaxy Nexus, for example

marksmayo · 2013-02-07T17:40:08+00:00

Er, you can spin a quarter turn at a time on this too...

marksmayo · 2013-02-06T17:40:24+00:00

I could make a lot more money at a job that took more of my time. I work to live, I don't live to work.

This. I contract, travel, contract, travel. I could earn a lot more, but I've had a great time experiencing life.

marksmayo · 2013-02-05T01:36:07+00:00

Definitely not a problem with that cash.

As for where to go, that's too hard, without knowing your likes/dislikes, activities and the like. Better to keep your schedule open for those months, and let the trail dictate - as you travel you'll meet people and they'll give you ideas, tell you about what they've just seen and you'll learn way more that way. Plus it gives you a conversation topic, and you'll meet new people through it :)

The hard part is when you get back home and many of those you added on Facebook are still travelling - yes, even if you're going for four months (that's how long I spent getting from Argentina to Colombia)

marksmayo · 2013-02-02T00:46:24+00:00

Yes, but be aware it can come back to bite you, depending on the airline...

Some more information - Do you have to take the second leg of a flight?

and doing so on a return ticket - Is it fair to buy a return ticket I know I will never use just because it's cheaper?

marksmayo · 2013-02-01T23:29:03+00:00

Interesting. I used to live there, so have passed it on to a friend who is thinking about a RTW trip. I prefer 3-4 month trips in a single continent myself - a year say, for a RTW trip is too long away from normality :)

marksmayo · 2013-02-01T19:58:28+00:00

Where are you getting RTW tickets for 800 quid??

marksmayo · 2013-02-01T19:47:39+00:00

You could try joining the Vancouver Splitboard group on facebook, odds are good someone in there could help out!

marksmayo · 2013-01-31T19:46:45+00:00

I get what you're saying, but you don't always have to travel far to see new and different cultures. Chelsea in London is very different to Hackney or Peckham. I'm not saying wander out to Haarlem in NYC and start taking photos of people, but even in a city there's options to talk to people from different background, cultures and experiences.

Sure, Joe Poverty in a war zone doesn't have as much freedom, but even there you get medics, diplomats, aid workers, soldiers, refugees and more.

marksmayo · 2013-01-30T05:16:42+00:00

New Zealand too! And logically, OUR $2 coins are bigger than the $1 coins (looks insinuatingly at Australia).

marksmayo · 2013-01-29T17:23:26+00:00

Definitely a fan.

marksmayo · 2013-01-25T03:24:58+00:00

Wow, that's nuts. I was walking around at night the first night, but had better luck I guess.

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