New courses for Passports with Purpose sponsor Freestyle Escape

Freestyle Escape has updated its cooking class schedule for next year and it looks like a fantastic program. New additions to the schedule since my prize post include a class with Alex Herbert of Bird Cow Fish on July 7. Passports with Purpose ends this week – you need to donate by midnight Seattle time [...]

Best prizes for Europeans in Passports with Purpose 2011

Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think there are any British bloggers hosting prizes in this year’s Passports with Purpose. This is a shame – in the past it’s been more of an international effort. That doesn’t mean that the Brits are sitting it out entirely. We have Mike of Fevered Mutterings supporting the fundraiser by [...]

Best prizes for Australians in Passports with Purpose 2011

This is the final week for Passports with Purpose so if you were thinking you would get around to donating at some point, now is a pretty good time! All the prizes should be up on the website by now so there’s no reason to wait. Looking for the link to donate and pick your [...]

NaBloPoMo round-up

At the start of this month I took on the challenge of National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo. It is the end of the month and while I didn’t quite manage to post every day, I caught up by the end of the month and published 30 blog posts in 30 days. Here is what [...]

Passports with Purpose: Cookery class at Freestyle Escape

Freestyle Escape cookery class

Do you remember the photo of that delectable dessert in my post about the Sunshine Coast hinterland? I bought it from the Freestyle Escape stall at the Real Food Festival in Maleny. Guess what? You could win a cookery class at Freestyle Escape and raise money to build libraries in Zambia at the same time! It’s [...]

Win a stay in MacCallum House in Mendocino

MacCallum House

I have hosted accommodation prizes for Passports with Purpose for the past two years running. In 2009 I hosted two Caribbean resort prizes – Coconut Bay in St Lucia and Tranquility Bay in Belize – and in 2010 I worked with the Fairmont Olympic in Seattle. They were all fantastic sponsors and the prizes sounded [...]

A photo walk through Golden Canyon in Death Valley

Golden Canyon in Death Valley

We did several hikes in Death Valley, but my favourite by far was Golden Canyon. We started at the Zabriskie Point look-out with stunning views over the canyon and down towards the Badwater salt flats. There were three options – we could hang out at the lookout and then take the bus to the other end [...]

Thai cookery class at the Spirit House

Crispy prawns at Spirit House

I have been wanting to eat at the Spirit House for years. It is a Thai restaurant in Yandina, near Noosa on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, and everyone says it is amazing. To reach the dining hall, you take a winding path through a lush rainforest garden and past a pond. There are Buddha statues [...]

Silhouettes and shadows in the morning sun

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I’ve been playing around with tonal range in black and white for my photography course. We get the morning sun now that our windows are fixed – and that makes for some nice silhouettes on the glossy white cupboard doors. I had fun taking these photos! This is day five of NaBloPoMo. I will be posting [...]

Rhyolite, a ghost town in Nevada

Rhyolite, a ghost town in Nevada

The idea of a ghost town has always enthralled me. There’s something about the emptiness and the weird relationship with time that fires my imagination. You don’t get the usual modernisation and general change that comes with the forward progress of time but it’s not quite like travelling back in time because of the decay [...]

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