Tales of a Technogypsie

Gibraltar Falls, Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia Travels Down Under:Koalas and Cyber-goths Monday, April 25, 2011 * Area around Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia * A later start to the day, Sir Bluey heated up the last of the kangaroo meat for lunch. This time the adventuring duo spiced it up with a peanut satay [...]

Sir Bluey Bee Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia Sir Bluey Bee, one of Australia’s men of mystery, a bard in his own right, is one of the many adventurers who have travelled with Sir Thomas Rhymer Oisin Leaf McGowan during his travels through Australia. This amazing man, was instrumentally helpful in guiding Sir Thomas Leaf [...]

Canberra to Australia Capital Territory, Australia Travels Down Under:Return to Canberra Friday, April 22, 2011 * Canberra to Australia Capital Territory, Australia * Awake in Canberra, our Sapphire Coast travelers are back at their home base. Sir Thomas investigated the intriguing plastic un-tearable Australian money. The duo set out for a day of exploring downtown [...]

Narooma, New South Wales, Australia Travels Down Under:Narooma to Batesman Bay and Beyond, Counting Dead Kangaroo Thursday, April 21, 2011 * Narooma to Batesman Bay, New South Wales, Australia * Breakfast at the Narooma YHA, Sir Thomas Leaf sadly said goodbye to his new German friend as he and Sir Bluey Bee set off for [...]

Fonzie’s grave? Travels Down Under:Relaxing in Narooma … Wednesday, April 20, 2011 * Narooma, New South Wales, Australia * Sir Bluey and Sir Thomas Leaf awoke in the restful Narooma YHA and started planning out their day after breakfast and tea. They also decided to stay an extra night in Narooma, which pleased Sir Thomas [...]

A wombat in the trail Travels Down Under:From Bittangee Bay to Narooma … Tuesday, April 19, 2011 * Bittangee Bay to Narooma, New South Wales, Australia * The exhausted travelers slowly awoke this morning to a quiet morning, minus the patter of a jumping wallaby outside. Sir Thomas Leaf crawled out of his tent to [...]

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Travels Down Under:Naked Flowers: Beaches and Rose Gardens Sunday, April 17, 2011 * Melbourne, Victoria, Australia * Early to rise, the first agenda that our trio had on their minds was fresh laundry. So a pit stop at the local laundromat was first order of business. Waiting for their loads to complete [...]

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Travels Down Under:Exploring Melbourne & Farewells to Sciencequeen Saturday, April 16, 2011 * Melbourne, Victoria, Australia * Early to rise, the travelers headed out to the train station for a brief wandering around metropolitan Melbourne before journeying to St. Kilda at the Local where they would bid farewell to the Science Queen. [...]

Albury YHA,Albury, New South Wales, Australia Travels Down Under:Journey through Victoria Friday, April 15, 2011 * Albury, New South Wales, Australia to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia * The weary adventures awoke in the mildew smelling dorm room of the Albury YHA, rolling out of bed, but with a restful sleep. Downstairs the showers awaited them, after [...]

Canberra to Australia Capital Territory, Australia Travels Down Under:Flea Markets and Botanical Gardens Sunday, April 24, 2011 * Canberra to Australia Capital Territory, Australia * Sir Thomas awoke early and headed down for a bite at the Bytes Cafe having a deliciously sweet blackberry and banana pancakes in the Canberra YHA. A brief Skype with [...]

Pirate Relief’s: Project Black Pearl * Piraterelief.com * Project Black Bearl is one of Pirate Relief‘s projects they are seeking by no later than 2015 in achieving. At present, negotiations are being made in the use of some “historic tall sailing ships” that are already in use, as a means of vehicles to use until [...]

Pirate Reliefwww.piraterelief.com * Facebook * Imagined by Captain Leaf McGowan in May 2010 as a dream, the ghostly ship didn’t manifest into conceptualization until June 2010 as he was to embark across the “Great Pond” to England. He posted the concept on facebook and expected to be laughed at but was greatly supported and encouraged [...]

Friday at the Burn 2010: Bodypainting, Dust Storms, Art, Music “The Man” – 2010 Friday, 3 September 2010 * Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada, United States of America * Awakening to the hot sun after a mid-morning glare peering into the Vanwagon vardo, Sir Thomas Leaf stumbled out of the van, off his futon, [...]

Travel Day 3: Faerieworlds Day 2: Bad Faeries Day Saturday, 31 July 2010 * Mt. Pisgah, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America * Sir Thomas Leaf, Lady Absinthe Alli, and Princess Astranna awoke for a morning of explorations around Faerieworlds on Bad Faeries Day. Frolick time with Lady Bonefinder and Fairy Girl as well as [...]

Day 2: Faerieworlds : Good Faeries Day 1 Friday, 30 July 2010 * Albany-Eugene, Oregon, United States of America * Sir Thomas Leaf, Lady Absinthe Alli, and Princess Astranna awoke after a good night’s rest at the Motel 6 ready for their journey into Faerie. They donned their faerie gear and costumes, did makeup, and [...]

Me and Faerie Twig Journeys around Colorado, July 5-28, 2010 As we join back with Sir Thomas Rhymer Oisin Leaf McGowan on his journey between the worlds we see that much contemplations about the dimensions, wanderlust, adventures, and concerns about the Earth has been swarming around in his mind and his concerns. He begins to [...]

Thursday 5 April 2007 :: Avebury/Salisbury, England:: Stonehenge Sir Thomas Leaf awoke without knowing his destination for the day. The plan was to be abducted by Lady Marion of Salisbury. The adventure party never heard from her since Malham, only that she would meet them at the train station and take Sir Thomas Leaf in [...]

Wednesday 4 April 2007 :: Bolton Abbey, England – Yorkshire::Chapter 6: Part 2 Sir Thomas Leaf and the Ruins of Bolton Abbey The foot-sore adventurers piled into the coach, adjusted to the driving on the left hand side of the road, Sir Thomas Leaf constantly with reflexes of grabbing a steering wheel that doesn’t exist [...]

Wednesday 4 April 2007 :: Grassington, England – Yorkshire::Chapter 6: Part 1 Sir Ingo the Great of Koln, Lady Vanessa of the Rhine, and Sir Thomas Leaf Cartographer of Colorado Once again, Sirs Thomas Leaf and Ingo the Great awoke early long before the breakfast buffet began. Hanging out thumbing through some books on Yorkshire [...]

Tuesday 3 April 2007 :: Kettlewell, England – Yorkshire::Chapter 5: Part 2 a horde of gnomes, dwarves, and hobbitsrevealing secrets to the adventurers With relief of the rainbow, the sun peeked through the clouds. The adventurers could take of their raingear. The road to Kettlewell from Arncliff had steep moments as it went up and [...]

Tuesday 3 April 2007 :: Arncliff, England – Yorkshire::Chapter 5: Part 1 Sir Ingo the Great, Lady Vanessa of the Rhine, Lady Marion of Salisbury in the rain by Malham Tarn That morning the sore legged adventurers awoke early to the Malham Hostel breakfast of champions – a breakfast buffet of ham, eggs, bacon, croissants, [...]

Tuesday 3 April 2007 :: Malham, England – Yorkshire::Chapter 4: P2 Sir Thomas Leaf, Lady Vanessa of the Rhine, Lady Marion of Salisbury Reaching the Malham Hostel, the Lady Vanessa was tired so went to take a nap. Sir Thomas Leaf set off to the pub for a Jameson & Coke as well as to [...]

Monday 2 April 2007 :: Malham, England – Yorkshire:: Sir Thomas Leaf on the Malham Cove, overlooking the village of Malham in the valley below Our adventuring party continued their journey along the Pennine Way, back to the village of Malham. Sir Thomas Leaf was in deep contemplation about the new journey set forth before [...]

Monday 2 April 2007 :: Malham, England – Yorkshire:: What in the Faerie Goddess’s name is wrong with that trunk? Early to rise our fine adventurers stumbled down to the hostel breakfast buffet to fill their bellies for a 7-9 mile hike around Malham, it’s scars, and many waterfalls. ‘Tis also the morning they set [...]

Monday 2 April 2007 :: Janet’s Foss :: Malham, England – Yorkshire:: Hammered Coins into a Trunk Money Trees at Janet’s Foss (Malham, England)On my trip to England, hiking across the Yorkshire Dales, I came upon an English tradition that I still do not know the full story of. I’ve asked over a dozen different [...]

Monday 2 April 2007 :: Malham, England – Yorkshire:: Early to rise our fine adventurers stumbled down to the hostel breakfast buffet to fill their bellies for a 7-9 mile hike around Malham, it’s scars, and many waterfalls. ‘Tis also the morning they set out to meet the Faerie Queen of Janet Foss in hopes [...]

Sunday 1 April 2007 :: Malham, England – Yorkshire:: : B Daffodils along the roads of Hanlith Village, England The adventurers arrived in the small village of Malham around 3 o’clock. (13:00) As they came over the hilltop to where they could see Malham in the distance, they could also see a pretty active little [...]

Sunday 1 April 2007 :: Gargrave, England – Yorkshire:: The adventure party and the Royal family: Sir Ingo, Lady Vanessa, Sir Robin, Queen Susan Just as the adventure party expected, Vanessa’s nephew, Sir Luca the Valiant, who has explored Skipton in great detail, must have found the parchment for the details about seeing entrance with [...]

Sunday 1 April 2007 :: Bradford, England; Skipton, England – Yorkshire:: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful woman named Vanessa, Lady of the Rhine – who was the envy of all of the ladies in the village of Dusseldorf, along the Rhine river in Germany. One of the local enchantresses who envied Vanessa, [...]

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