Rae Glacier

This weekend 8 of us decided to get some good pre season turns in. As luck would have it though, we did a lot of hiking and very very little skiing/boarding. Still a beautiful hike in the magnificent rocky mountains with good friends.

BocciFest 2006 was FRICKIN AWSOME. Christine and I won the best costume award for our Togas!!. Chris and Matt took home the gold medal though with some fantastic boccing the likes of which the world has never seen before or probably will ever see again.

Ski Pics of the good old HUGE rockey mountains. FREAKIN HUGE!!! We went to Tent Ridge, about 6 hours up to the summit and the best 40 minute run down of my life.

Dorien seemed to be as much of a tourist attraction as the Grand Palace to tiny asian ladies.

Hey hey hey everyone. We're in Thailand!!!! We got on a 8 hour over night train about 5 hours after we landed in Singapore. So we were both jet lagged, Dorien was sick, and had 2 nights in a row with virtually no sleep. When we finaly got to Kuala Lumpur and got a decent place to sleep I caught whatever Dorien had and we were both sick for a day or two. We got on another 12 hour over night sleeper train to Hat Yai and when we arrived we were ambushed ON THE FREAKIN TRAIN by sleeze bags who wanted us to go ride in their busses instead of the city busses to Krabi. So just a 5 hour bus ride and we made it to Krabi. The next 2 pics are of Nick using the comically tiny bathroom on the bus, I didnt even attempt to because Ive seen how messy a Thai toilet can get and to be trapped in a tiny room with one would be hell.
This is one of the sleeper trains.
Fantastic self taken picture of me infront of one of the Patronas towers in KL.


So it was a hectic first week of traveling many many kilometers but now weve made it to Railay beach and its great, Its amazing how much development they've done in 11 months since the last time I was here. Tomorow we are going to hike over one of the cliffs and check out a hidden lagoon, sounds pretty sweet. See you lata.

Martin Adam and I doing what we did when we werent picking apples in Hasting.
More of the mystery lake (see prevouse post)

I think this Kia (the only alpine parrot in the world) was used to getting its picture taken. It even knew the best spot for him to stay still and look at the camera.
Adam and I thought we were in a different part of the area and thought we were heading a different direction when we turned a corner and found ourselves looking at this fantasticaly beautyfull lake. Really calmed us down.

We thought this was a road to the beach in the pitch black the night before, we drove uphill for an hour before we decided to stop for the night and this was only about 3 more minutes up the road.
This is a TWO WAY, bridge for TWO DIFFERENT FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION sharing one lane. Scary as hell since its a windy road and you can barely see if another car is coming, I would probably piss myself if I saw a train coming.
Good old Subaru Leon. Only let us down a hand full of times and overheated on the way up to this piont, but we still loved it.
Mike and Decker both fell asleep with the tv on. Oh those kids.
I guess Dorien isnt as used to the cold as I am.
This is where I worked for 3 months, every morning I drove up this damn mountain and stood in the snow Demoing skis, I guess it wasnt that bad.

"Big Tree", Dorein is back there somewhere.

I could be an underwear model with this pose.

This is me ripping up the curl with a giant beard, and pajama pants.

I really liked these pictures taken at Lake Tekapu, the water is an amazing colour due to "rock flour" that never settles out.

Very wet cruise in Milford Sound. We were suposed to go Kayaking but the weather was just to extreme, we could have handled it though.

The Moraki boulders are really cool spherical rocks about a meter across that are naturaly formed in lava bubbles.

Nugget Point was definetly worth the side trip. We arrived just before sunset.

Some pretty pics from New Zealand. Going through my pics I realize just how many really cool pics I have and that theres no way I could put them all up. Or that you would want to see every single one of them. Im just going to try and chose some and slap em up and see what you think. It wouldnt let me rotate it to the correct angle so just stand your monitor on its side. Its easier that way.

Australia Pics

Coolest cars ever!



Guess what this is.

My pappy enjoying the nice sand the way only he can.
If you read the sign you can see just how serious those little jellyfish buggers are. I HATE THEM!!
A big tree with a harry guy under it.
Its soooo hot, cant go any further.
Mango.......

This is the time where Im going to try and put a bunch of pictures from Australia up but you have to wrap your brain around the fact that this happened in October and actually before the previous posts. I spent just over 2 weeks in Oz and my parents were super enough to join me. We traveled from Sydney to Cairns in that time and did lots of driving. This is on a island in the Whitsundays, my father looks pretty proud of his "stinger suit" eventhough it sucked huge amounts of ass that we werent suposed to go in the water without them. Stupid Jellyfish
Only 55cents for a deadly disease in a can WHAT A DEAL!!
This is where I had to sleep for 4 hours in the Sydney airport because they actually close the terminal between 12:00 and 4:00am and herd all the people that have to spend the night into a crappy little waiting area.
Gettin some rays on the Sail through the Whitsundays.
I can actually say that I have seen Aires Rock!!!!

Hollandia Pics

I liked this one taken from "the Afsluitdijk".
Doriens sister Toos taking safety into consideration.
Guy walking into the wind FOREVER!!

The mighty Dutch windmill in all its magesty!
Earlier in fall in Schoorl riding bicycles.
Dorien having a merry old time in Amsterdam
The dramatic sea at sunset a few minutes from our house.

Dorien and I in Amsterdam, when Jacqui visited, on our way to Nemo science museum. Nemo science museum is designed for children in elementary school coincidentaly.
If you look at the yellow sign you should be able to make out that yes indeed it is the "Porno Supermarket" One stop shopping for all your porno needs!
This is the Afslou Dyke. I actually have no idea how to spell that but its what keeps the mighty sea from destroying most of Holland
One of Amsterdams canals. It was pretty chilly that day.

First Post AND PICS!!!

Windmills make it so that we dont drown.

Mother nature missed giving us a White Christmas by one day, this was Dec 26th and 2 days later it was all gone.
This is me standing UNDER SEA LEVEL... oh my god.