Author Archives: andrewturbill

I was awoken around midnight last night when the insides of my eyelids exploded in electric-purple light, followed almost instantaneously by a tremendous thunderclap that surely put the chooks off the lay for weeks. After leaping out of bed to madly shut doors and windows like preparing a submarine for descending beneath the waves, IContinueContinue reading “The Storm”

At some point in your life’s journey the day may arrive when you will be required to solve, perhaps with great urgency, the rather mucky dilemma of how best to make an unscheduled organic deposit (known in the trade as a “bush-poo”) while out roaming the wilds. Chances are you will be without the familiarContinueContinue reading “Bush Toilet Tips and Other Stories”

There is a careful art to adventuring. The tricky part of any adventurous experience is ensuring your level of planning detail is not so overbearing as to snuff out any chance for misadventure. Too much misadventure and you likely won’t live long enough to tell the story (see film “Into the Wild”, for example), tooContinueContinue reading “The Art of Adventuring”