Tag: Travelogue
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Road Trip New Zealand South Island
Our seven-day journey through the South Island of New Zealand was a crazy road trip, replete with unforgettable natural eye candy. Here’s the lowdown on our daily itinerary: Day 1: Christchurch to Methven Our journey began at Christchurch airport, where we snagged a beat-up rental car. The rental car was a death trap on wheels,…
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Hiking the Overland Track in Tasmania
Tasmania’s Overland Track is one of Australia’s most renowned hiking trails. It spans over 65 kilometres, from Cradle Mountain in Tasmania’s north to Lake St Claire in the South. The hike is an adventure that takes you through stunning landscapes, and the reward of finishing the journey is an odd feeling of accomplishment. We embarked…
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Riding the Menindee Lakes and the Darling River Run, Australia
I spend the past week doing the Menindee Lakes and Darling River run in the New South Wales Outback. It was my first serious Outback sojourn on the moto, but it wasn’t that serious, there are many other significant tracks to explore in Australia, but that would take another whole level of preparation, including expensive…
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![Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//Screenshot_2016-01-25-11-39-42.png)
Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]
The transition back into Melbournian and Australian life after a long hiatus is exhilarating. It is a time of renovation with renewed acumen, of putting new-found perspectives and confidences to the fore and weaving new paths through Modern life that all too often celebrates and rewards the regularity and predictability of well-managed lives versus the…
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![Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina, the final destination! [49/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//img_8676-1.jpg)
Mount Fitz Roy, Argentina, the final destination! [49/50]
After one year of traveling, it was good to arrive at Mount Fitz Roy, the final destination of this thirteen nation adventure. A year is a long time to travel and those that tell you that the years get shorter as you get older, possibly need to get out of the house more often (i.e.,…
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![Walking the ‘W’ Trek, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia [48/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_83801.jpg)
Walking the ‘W’ Trek, Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia [48/50]
Chile has a magnificent four thousand kilometers long coastline (and is less than two hundred kilometers wide in places), but similar to the other uber-urbanised countries of Canada and Australia, most of the population is crammed into either one or two vacuum-cleaned dormitory cities with itsy-bitsy people trying to stuff the whole world (and all…