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Travel/Overseas destinations
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Ok,get your pillows and blankets out.....its Part 3 time!
We have now used our last $20 bucks each in cash for Fuel,and are on our way to Miami Beach.The problem was the car didn't make it that far and we wound up in a beach carpark in Daytona on the Floridian central coast.The only thing i knew about the place was it had a racetrack,and plenty of 80s tits n ass films about 'springbreak' were filmed there.
We decided to the place looked like fun,a small old fashioned Surfers Paradise if you like,and we'd look for work the next day.It was no good though,no one would take us on without a permit.The owner of the youth hostel was trying to help us out,before he said to meet across the road in the beach bar "the Ocean Deck' which sits on the sand overlooking the Atlantic,with reggae music lilting from it.My favorite bar in the world still.He insists on paying for everything and we end up caned.
He then says 'By the way,your both hired.'He reckons he only hires people that are fun to drink with,thats all you need on your CV!!!!
Daytona has 2 big Bike Festivals,Bike week and Biketoberfest which culminates on Halloween night,awesome fun with no trouble at all.The many bars are packed with bikers from all over the country.
There's also race week,for the Daytona 500 and of coarse Springbreak where he place is overrun by holidaying Uni students going beserk.The beach is unique too,as the sand is so hard you are able to drive your cars along it....the only such beach in the USA.
I spend 11 months there and miss it terribly to this day,I actually left twice but returned again soon after.After getting involved with a lunatic stalker I knew it was time to go for good however!God knows what she's doing now
Surrounding Daytona was Orlando about half an hour away and was a good gtaway for a weekend for clubbing,St Augustine where the Spanish Flotillas arrived and first stepped onto US soil,Cape Canaveral was only 20 away,and I saw a Shuttle launched and had an awesome veiw from Daytona Beach,and good old Greg Normans 'joint' on Jupiter Island.There's also a town called Melbourne nearby where I bought a heap of Postcards from and sent them to the folks back home :hihi
I drove down to watch the Cubs beat the Marlins at the baseball,and also took in Ft lauderdale(average....seedy and dirty) Miami(Cool as) and the Florida Quays.
My mate and i parted at Daytona,he decided to go to Africa with a chick he met in Greece,and I went off to New Orleans.We were actually sad to sell the Humungus as it was closure on us being travel companions for over 2 years.
As for NO,what a place,such a shame its in ruins now :'(
Dangerous,but so much fun,esp The French quarter and around bourbon St.
Next Stop was Vegas and a reunion with our friends from Vancouver
Very easy place to spend money!! It is a sight to behold if you fly in at night like I did,what a display of color and granduer
As mentioned on another post,I went on a charter plane over the Grand Canyon and some of the Rockies,and hired a car and saw Hoover Dam.
Flew back to LA and ended up being drugged at a club by accident.I was with 9 girls and only one bloke so Im sure the 'roof' was meant for them.A very scary night and a very,very sick boy the next few days
The next leg was Hawaii. :hula
This is the place you'd live if you were forced to leave Australia.
I was able to get work there in yet another Backpackers on Kuhio ave Honanlulu on the island of Oahu.
What a place to chill,the ultimate laid back paradise.
Sunset Beach,Pipeline and Waiemia Bay all up on the North coast among mountains and unspoilt natural beauty.
Went and sawPearl Harbour and its exhibitions and the sunken boats still in the harbour.
Of the other Islands I think Maui was my favorite.There's so much to love about it.
The only bad things I could think of were 'The Strip' in Honanlulu full of hookers and drug dealers,and blind drunk aggressive marines on r&r.The rest is just a beautiful memory.It was surprisingly cheap to live there as well.
Dukes bar is famous and right on Waikikki beach.Its there as a tribute to the man who is credited as the Father of Surfing,having a cool drink there at a days end was hard to take.
My next concern was how I was ever going to leave......and the small fact I had overstayed my Visa by a long long long time :nailbiting
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!
Ok,get your pillows and blankets out.....its Part 3 time!
We have now used our last $20 bucks each in cash for Fuel,and are on our way to Miami Beach.The problem was the car didn't make it that far and we wound up in a beach carpark in Daytona on the Floridian central coast.The only thing i knew about the place was it had a racetrack,and plenty of 80s tits n ass films about 'springbreak' were filmed there.
We decided to the place looked like fun,a small old fashioned Surfers Paradise if you like,and we'd look for work the next day.It was no good though,no one would take us on without a permit.The owner of the youth hostel was trying to help us out,before he said to meet across the road in the beach bar "the Ocean Deck' which sits on the sand overlooking the Atlantic,with reggae music lilting from it.My favorite bar in the world still.He insists on paying for everything and we end up caned.
He then says 'By the way,your both hired.'He reckons he only hires people that are fun to drink with,thats all you need on your CV!!!!
Daytona has 2 big Bike Festivals,Bike week and Biketoberfest which culminates on Halloween night,awesome fun with no trouble at all.The many bars are packed with bikers from all over the country.
There's also race week,for the Daytona 500 and of coarse Springbreak where he place is overrun by holidaying Uni students going beserk.The beach is unique too,as the sand is so hard you are able to drive your cars along it....the only such beach in the USA.
I spend 11 months there and miss it terribly to this day,I actually left twice but returned again soon after.After getting involved with a lunatic stalker I knew it was time to go for good however!God knows what she's doing now
Surrounding Daytona was Orlando about half an hour away and was a good gtaway for a weekend for clubbing,St Augustine where the Spanish Flotillas arrived and first stepped onto US soil,Cape Canaveral was only 20 away,and I saw a Shuttle launched and had an awesome veiw from Daytona Beach,and good old Greg Normans 'joint' on Jupiter Island.There's also a town called Melbourne nearby where I bought a heap of Postcards from and sent them to the folks back home :hihi
I drove down to watch the Cubs beat the Marlins at the baseball,and also took in Ft lauderdale(average....seedy and dirty) Miami(Cool as) and the Florida Quays.
My mate and i parted at Daytona,he decided to go to Africa with a chick he met in Greece,and I went off to New Orleans.We were actually sad to sell the Humungus as it was closure on us being travel companions for over 2 years.
As for NO,what a place,such a shame its in ruins now :'(
Dangerous,but so much fun,esp The French quarter and around bourbon St.
Next Stop was Vegas and a reunion with our friends from Vancouver
Very easy place to spend money!! It is a sight to behold if you fly in at night like I did,what a display of color and granduer
As mentioned on another post,I went on a charter plane over the Grand Canyon and some of the Rockies,and hired a car and saw Hoover Dam.
Flew back to LA and ended up being drugged at a club by accident.I was with 9 girls and only one bloke so Im sure the 'roof' was meant for them.A very scary night and a very,very sick boy the next few days
The next leg was Hawaii. :hula
This is the place you'd live if you were forced to leave Australia.
I was able to get work there in yet another Backpackers on Kuhio ave Honanlulu on the island of Oahu.
What a place to chill,the ultimate laid back paradise.
Sunset Beach,Pipeline and Waiemia Bay all up on the North coast among mountains and unspoilt natural beauty.
Went and sawPearl Harbour and its exhibitions and the sunken boats still in the harbour.
Of the other Islands I think Maui was my favorite.There's so much to love about it.
The only bad things I could think of were 'The Strip' in Honanlulu full of hookers and drug dealers,and blind drunk aggressive marines on r&r.The rest is just a beautiful memory.It was surprisingly cheap to live there as well.
Dukes bar is famous and right on Waikikki beach.Its there as a tribute to the man who is credited as the Father of Surfing,having a cool drink there at a days end was hard to take.
My next concern was how I was ever going to leave......and the small fact I had overstayed my Visa by a long long long time :nailbiting
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!
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Well done Bubbles.
How did you last nearly a year in the USA considering the winter, hurricanes etc.......
Overall it sounds like a really memorable time that you just wish could happen again, but you didn't go to Texas?
As for the stalker, well you know what they say ......."she's now a happily married woman":hihi
Well done Bubbles.
How did you last nearly a year in the USA considering the winter, hurricanes etc.......
Overall it sounds like a really memorable time that you just wish could happen again, but you didn't go to Texas?
As for the stalker, well you know what they say ......."she's now a happily married woman":hihi
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We did have a few Hurricanes come up from the Dominican Republic,but none that actually hit us full scale.We had one class A one heading toward us where the local pubs all locked in the punters on credit........which was great,but as we lived,we paid when it was averted
Heard plenty about Hurricane Andrew which battered Miami,Lauderdale and Pompano further south of DBeach.
The winters in Vancouver were not alot worse than Melbournes,though rainier.
Same really goes for Daytona,cold days and nights but mildish days.
Neither had snowy winters.
No I didn't go to Texas,it just couldn't be fitted into the jigsaw of time and $$.
If that lunatic is married then I'll look forward to seeing her on a Jerry Springer show in the future.Wish the big head had've made the decision on her at the time. :-[
And yes,i'd do it again in a heartbeat Forceskin,the best education in life you'll have is travelling the hard and cheap way.
TigerForce said:
We did have a few Hurricanes come up from the Dominican Republic,but none that actually hit us full scale.We had one class A one heading toward us where the local pubs all locked in the punters on credit........which was great,but as we lived,we paid when it was averted
Heard plenty about Hurricane Andrew which battered Miami,Lauderdale and Pompano further south of DBeach.
The winters in Vancouver were not alot worse than Melbournes,though rainier.
Same really goes for Daytona,cold days and nights but mildish days.
Neither had snowy winters.
No I didn't go to Texas,it just couldn't be fitted into the jigsaw of time and $$.
If that lunatic is married then I'll look forward to seeing her on a Jerry Springer show in the future.Wish the big head had've made the decision on her at the time. :-[
And yes,i'd do it again in a heartbeat Forceskin,the best education in life you'll have is travelling the hard and cheap way.
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I spent 10 days in NJ & NY together and toured through the 'northern' states but as the US is a large country it's difficult to go to nearly every state which is what I would love to do mainly because they all have their own culture and history.
Don't know if a bloke at 39 years of age can travel the hard & cheap way, especially with all this 'security-craziness' the US lives on nowadays.
struggletown3121 said:TigerForce said:
We did have a few Hurricanes come up from the Dominican Republic,but none that actually hit us full scale.We had one class A one heading toward us where the local pubs all locked in the punters on credit........which was great,but as we lived,we paid when it was averted
Heard plenty about Hurricane Andrew which battered Miami,Lauderdale and Pompano further south of DBeach.
The winters in Vancouver were not alot worse than Melbournes,though rainier.
Same really goes for Daytona,cold days and nights but mildish days.
Neither had snowy winters.
No I didn't go to Texas,it just couldn't be fitted into the jigsaw of time and $$.
If that lunatic is married then I'll look forward to seeing her on a Jerry Springer show in the future.Wish the big head had've made the decision on her at the time. :-[
And yes,i'd do it again in a heartbeat Forceskin,the best education in life you'll have is travelling the hard and cheap way.
I spent 10 days in NJ & NY together and toured through the 'northern' states but as the US is a large country it's difficult to go to nearly every state which is what I would love to do mainly because they all have their own culture and history.
Don't know if a bloke at 39 years of age can travel the hard & cheap way, especially with all this 'security-craziness' the US lives on nowadays.
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I am just LOVING this thread!! It makes me wanna llllllleap on the next flight outta here! >
Struggs, what happened when you overstayed your visa?? Did immigration politely show you the door or did you get a hefty fine, or both? I overstayed my visas in Thailand, Taiwan and PNG. Both Thailand and Taiwan were just a matter of cash for an extension. PNG was easier - a bottle of whisky! ;D
Yes you can Force Majeure. 39 is a great age to travel and thoseskanky I mean yanky chicks will just love you!!! ;D Travelling the hard & cheap way is the only way to really feel the soul of a country IMO. :hearton
I am just LOVING this thread!! It makes me wanna llllllleap on the next flight outta here! >
Struggs, what happened when you overstayed your visa?? Did immigration politely show you the door or did you get a hefty fine, or both? I overstayed my visas in Thailand, Taiwan and PNG. Both Thailand and Taiwan were just a matter of cash for an extension. PNG was easier - a bottle of whisky! ;D
TigerForce said:
Yes you can Force Majeure. 39 is a great age to travel and those
;D Travelling the hard & cheap way is the only way to really feel the soul of a country IMO. :hearton
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If you ever get the chance to go to Angkor I highly recommend it. It's quite breathtaking and looks like something lifted straight out of a Tomb Raider or Indiana Jones movie set(particularly Angkor Thom and the surrounding temples :thumbsup).
If you ever get the chance to go to Angkor I highly recommend it. It's quite breathtaking and looks like something lifted straight out of a Tomb Raider or Indiana Jones movie set(particularly Angkor Thom and the surrounding temples :thumbsup).
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WOW ToO!!! These are stunning images. Angkor Thom looks incredible - so much detail. It just blows my mind how they were all carved by hand using fairly rudimentary tools back then. They really were/are highly skilled stonemasons. I'd love to visit Cambodia (especially now that the Khmer Rouge is outta the way).
WOW ToO!!! These are stunning images. Angkor Thom looks incredible - so much detail. It just blows my mind how they were all carved by hand using fairly rudimentary tools back then.
They really were/are highly skilled stonemasons. I'd love to visit Cambodia (especially now that the Khmer Rouge is outta the way).
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Yeah, I heard you left so many unpaid bar tabs that you are now officially on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
Given you were down in Florida, you were probably already on that list coz' I'll bet you were involved with that psycho prostitute murderer Aileen Wuornos - the one they made the "Monster" movie about. Geez you're a disgrace Bubbles.
struggletown3121 said:
Yeah, I heard you left so many unpaid bar tabs that you are now officially on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
Given you were down in Florida, you were probably already on that list coz' I'll bet you were involved with that psycho prostitute murderer Aileen Wuornos - the one they made the "Monster" movie about. Geez you're a disgrace Bubbles.
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Yeah just over the weekend mk33.
Cambodia is next door to Thailand. Only about a 50min flight to Siem Reap from Bangkok. I suppose that's one of the great things about living here is that alot of these countries are very close.
Thanks Crystal, glad you like the pics. Well worth a visit one day. Not sure how much else there is to see in Cambodia apart from Angkor because I was only there for a short time. However it's close to Thailand and Vietnam so I'd perhaps suggest doing a couple of countries.
mk33 said:
Yeah just over the weekend mk33.
Cambodia is next door to Thailand. Only about a 50min flight to Siem Reap from Bangkok. I suppose that's one of the great things about living here is that alot of these countries are very close.
Crystal said:WOW ToO!!! These are stunning images. Angkor Thom looks incredible - so much detail. It just blows my mind how they were all carved by hand using fairly rudimentary tools back then.
Thanks Crystal, glad you like the pics. Well worth a visit one day. Not sure how much else there is to see in Cambodia apart from Angkor because I was only there for a short time. However it's close to Thailand and Vietnam so I'd perhaps suggest doing a couple of countries.
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Wanted dead or alive for dancing and pick-up line atrocities...........USE EXTREME CAUTION AND DONT SHOUT HIM A PINT.
Aileen?? She told me her name was Kim.....Liar
Redford said:
Wanted dead or alive for dancing and pick-up line atrocities...........USE EXTREME CAUTION AND DONT SHOUT HIM A PINT.
Redford said:
Aileen?? She told me her name was Kim.....Liar
Hot tip from Chiang Mai Tiger :beer but it's not just us who like it..Otis said:
http://www.thebackpacker.net/worldbeers/leo_1662_worldbeers.htm
Gustiger prefers the Chang, but it's not for me.
Have fun Otis! :hula
