Pins and Needles Saturday, September 4 2004

At the Copa, Copacabana... With an oxygen tank on one side and a drip on the other... OK, so I did drink too much in Copacabana... (not the good one, the one in Bolivia) and that was before the drinking games started. Something about a hat, and something about sculling your drink. The next morning, trying to...  read more

Fine white powder Sunday, July 18 2004

It may surprise some of the more rural members of my family that I actually went horseback riding for two days and didn't get dragged along by my head with my foot hanging in a stirrup. By the end, I wasn't too bad. We went through Butch and Sundance country, three of us galloping through rivers, racing along the...  read more

On top of the world Wednesday, July 7 2004

If you spun the Earth from underneath me so that Melbourne was underneath me, I would be four kilometres above most of the populace and wishing I had packed that ultralight backpackers parachute. Potosi, Bolivia is the highest city in the world. To build a city this high you need a damn good reason, because the...  read more