Winner: Joby GorillaPod SLR

We recently announced our Joby GorillaPod SLR giveaway and received a fantastic response with 33 valid entries! As promised, the winner would be announced on Monday June 13. To decide a winner, we assigned each competition entry a number and then used the Random Number Generator to select a winner.

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Our Proposed West Coast USA Itinerary

The countdown to our round-the-world adventure is now less than 7 weeks and the stress, panic and excitement levels are all rapidly rising. We keep saying it, but we honestly can’t believe how fast the last few months have gone by – hell, we’re nearly halfway through 2011! Over the [...]

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48 Hours in Johannesburg

Travelling down a beaten dirty road in South Africa I was staring out the window taking in as much as I could. With so much to exotic nature and animals, simply peering through the smeared glass was enough to take anyone aback.

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Keeping Travel Statistics

I’ve always been obsessed by numbers and statistics. Even as a child playing sport, I often had my parents collect my football stats and cricket averages so I could keep track of how I was going as the seasons progressed. Slightly weird, huh? These days this obsession mostly surrounds my [...]

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Biking the Golden Gate Bridge

One of the must-do’s on our list when arriving in San Francisco was to cross the Golden Gate Bridge, regardless of how we did it. This was a non-negotiable and upon discovering our WharfPass included a two-hour bike rental, we knew what we had to do. Bike The Bridge. So [...]

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Giveaway: Joby GorillaPod SLR

It’s been over two months since our Jumping Photo Contest which obviously means that we’re long overdue for another competition here on Don’t Ever Look Back. With that said, we’re happy to announce that we’re running another giveaway that is open to all of our awesome readers! The two of [...]

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#rtwsoon Interview: Mariah – Slacker Backpacker

July 2011 is a popular month for kicking off round-the-world adventures! We’ve already interviewed Garreth who is leaving on July 5 and Mike & Ashley who are leaving on July 6. There’s also the two of us – if you’re new to our site, we’re starting our trip in Hawaii on July 26. [...]

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How to deal with frustration

Frustration occurs every time we don’t get what we want, when we had certain expectations of something and this “something” did not turn out the way we thought or wished it would, whether it is an unrequited love [...]

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3 travel medications you can’t leave behind!

Working in a pharmacy, I’m starting to see more people coming in seeking advice on the ‘must-have’ medications to take with them while traveling. I could easily give them a list a page long but based on my travel experiences, these three medicines should be the first things in your [...]

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