16 Down, 84 To Go.

It looks like I accidently completed another item on The List.

#23. Visit Canada.

With my visit to Klas in Australia I’ve also shaved off another continent on item number 50. I’ll probably make it to Africa one day, Antarctica will be more of a challenge.

In Canada we used a camcorder I brought with me from work and we shot about 90 minutes of raw video. I’m hoping to edit down to maybe 5 to 10 minutes of at least semi-interesting material and Hans Olav has provided me with a copy of a rather advanced video editing tool. The software manual is a whopping two thousand pages and I’m not planning to read through it all, but from what I gather “logging” the clips is a good idea.

The DV camera has marked each clip on the tape, so in theory it should not be much work to log the clips, but so far I’ve been unable get the editing software to actually use the marks for anything useful.

What would life be without the daily challenge?

G’day, How’s it Goin’?

After about six days in Cairns I’m now heading North again. It’s been a lazy week and me and Klas didn’t really do anything except for drinking beer, playing poker and chat with people passing through the same hostel we were staying at.

Some of you will probably say that I’m wasting my vacation by not getting up at seven in the morning every day to do as much as possible, but to me that’s not a vacation. Vacation for me is to be able to lay in a hammoc, drink cool beer and read a book. Preferably a good one. I did just that a lot as well, and I’m almost done with the second volume of the The Dark Tower novels by Stephen King. It’s a shame I didn’t get the third volume as well because I’ve got a lot of time to read during the next few days of flying around the world once again.

Even though the week was mostly aimless, we did go on one day trip to a crocodile zoo just outside of Cairns. A lot of interesting birds and animals and even a croc attack show. I did take some pictures, but nothing I can get online now.

Cairns So Far.

Yes, I’m still in Cairns and still alive, breathing and well. After a night at Hides Hotel in a room without A/C but with a fan that was once used as an airplane engine I’ve now moved to Shenannigans, a combined hostel, motel and pub place. Central and not too pricey.

Yesterday I met up with Klas and some other crew members from the cruise boat “Spirit of Freedom” he is currently working on. Happy to be back on dry land, they had already emptied a few kegs of beer when I met them around one in the afternoon. After a couple of hours of chit chat and beers, me and Klas went back to Shenannigans where we booked him a room and picked up some stuff he had put in storage while he was out conquering the Seven Seas.

Come Tuesday. The weather machine is still broken and it’s been raining more or less all day.