Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Passports with Purpose has rolled around again and I’m proud to be a participating blogger for the fourth year in a row. I’m thrilled about the prizes I have secured – just one more day before the big reveal! I will give you some clues… One is a travel prize based in northern California and, [...]
Australians were recently shocked by dramatic scenes of animal cruelty in footage shown in ABC’s Four Corners documentary on the cattle live export trade. Cattle are shipped from northern Australia to Indonesia where thousands were dying “slow and hideous deaths”. After the program aired and a public outcry, the federal Government banned live export of [...]
When Woody Guthrie sang of redwood forests and diamond deserts in “This Land is Your Land”, his lyrics suggested his roaming and rambling was entirely on foot. But the reality is that the United States is so vast and diverse that these days, motorised transport of some kind is needed for serious exploration. When I first moved [...]
I have decided to merge Roaming Tales with my personal blog. You will notice a new category called The Niltiac Files that contains all my imported personal blog posts dating back to 2004. I’m still sorting out the sub-categories and tags to assist with navigation through the archive and over time I will also work [...]
Earlier today I passed a small but passionate protest in Sydney’s Martin Place. There were a few men in the group but most of the protesters were women, wearing the modest garb and head coverings that marked them out as Muslim. Waving the Syrian flag, their voices rang loud and clear and their accents were [...]
It’s been another super-awesome year for Passports with Purpose! We set ourselves a goal of raising $50,000 for LAFTI to build a village in India for people from the Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste. We’ve raised $52,000 so far! That is thanks to the collective efforts of the founders, participating bloggers, sponsors and everyone who has bought [...]
The historic Fairmont Olympic in Seattle has donated an overnight stay in its executive suite as a prize in this year’s Passports with Purpose. Read all about the hotel and the prize in my previous post – or head directly over to the Passports with Purpose donation page for your chance to win. Raffle tickets [...]
In two weeks’ time I will be flying from the United States to Australia – we’re moving home. If I get asked to go through the full-body scanner – whether it’s the millimetre-wave machine or the back-scatter machine – I will be opting out. I won’t be doing this as a form of protest. I [...]
Call me suspicious, but I think the TSA has just made a rather brilliant PR move. Today is the day before Thanksgiving in the United States. It was also the day nominated for “National Opt-Out Day” when travellers across America would protest the TSA’s new security measures and opt for an enhanced pat-down rather than [...]
Since moving here last year, I have been seduced by the beauty of San Francisco and the California coast. The sweeping red arches of the Golden Gate Bridge never fail to move me and I fell in love with the sparkling waters and wild cliffs of the coast on my Highway 1 road trip last [...]
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