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Paul Bandsma installing my new THULE roof rack on my rental car   I spent all day with Andrew Divola in his fibreglass workshop today, glueing, glassing, sanding, painting, adding stickers…eventually my boat is ready to go! He did a great solid job on getting all the details done. Thanks for your great work, Andrew!   […]

Dale and I in the baggage service warehouse, hugging my missing gear bag   My bag finally came in with the 6.30 am flight Tuesday morning, but they would have delivered it only Wednesday around lunchtime (or so…). As there are important kayak parts in there Andrew and I urgently need to finish up the boat […]

Dinner at Manly Beach with Maree and Adrian van Bellen, Thule car racks representatives Australia.   First day in Sydney…I decided to do a short walk down to Manly Beach at about 6.30 am – a beautiful sunny morning. Surf was up already and the water was busy with early morning swimmers and surfers like it would never […]

  Jetlagged… Monday 12.01.2009 – 4am   I’m finally in Sydney – Australia!   It was a long trip – it started with leaving home at 3.30 am driving to Hamburg airport.   Last things I was doing at home the final days was not checking on trip issues, but doing my 2008 employees taxes, […]

  Australia can swallow whole Europe…but not it’s adventurous tourists! 🙂 Thanks to Peter Treby/ Melbourne for forwarding me that image!   Blog enty written on a Toshiba Portégé R55-11Y

I was able to fix a schedule now and to book a flight!!! Yeah! Troubles with getting my boat in time are mostly solved now…   I’ll arrive in Sydney, Sunday 11th, 20.05.   Why Sydney? Epic Kayaks will not be able to provide my expedition version epic 18x sport in time, due to unexpected […]

  Welcome, logo No. 50!   I’m very pleased and feel honored my extensive work with sponsors is topping in a joint venture with Thule Sweden.     Working with sponsors sound like a nice game, collecting all those colorful logos on your website and getting a pile of great useful gear given. But It is not […]

  Foto von Peter Lintner Für alle, die es genießen, auch mal etwas in *Deutsch* zu lesen: Hier ein Bericht von Wolfgang Amslinger auf www.kajak.at, garniert mit weiteren netten Bildern von der Kanumesse, diesmal fotografiert von Peter Lintner. Er ist übrigens der “Paparazzi” auf dem zweitletzten Bild der Playak-Playgirl Galerie.

Picture by Peter Lintner Sponsoring of a BIG trip like my Race around Australia is a mutual giving and taking. Next year and beyond my website and blog will be getting 1000ds of hits, when the worldwide kayaking and outdoor community will be following my year long trip. A great chance fo any potential sponsor to […]

What I’ve been doing the last weeks/ months to prepare  my trip?    – Organisation of my year long absence at my shops: Since we agreed it will be possible that I’ll be away for that whole long year I was briefing my shop managers Ilona Sierks and Andrea Höhn for my absence. I’m very proud […]