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PAX AUS 2013
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/24/3384042/pax-australia-hopes-to-prove-that-gaming-culture-is-universal
I would like to call it PAX Down Under.
I would like to call it PAX Down Under.
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I also think it will be a little funny if it's just Scott, Rym, and Churba. Or maybe Luke will figure out how to get there.
Seriously, dude, my career for quite a while was travel and hospitality. Let me help you.
So, we're talking about two places of enormous size, a pretty decent distance apart, this isn't like taking a trip to Camden to see if the ladies really do sing this song. The reef itself, you're going to want to stay at least 2-3 days to see a decent amount of it. So, where are you going to go? Cairns, you can fly into, but you'd be better off going to Port Douglas instead, 90 minutes north of Cairns on the highway. Beaches, easier to get to the reef, and cheaper than Cairns, and easier to get to the Daintree rainforest, too, which you'd be mad to miss out on.
But, even from Cairns - Side note, pronounced almost identically to "Cans" - where are you going to go in the outback? You can fly, sure, but where? Alice Springs? Coober Pedy? Birdsville? Katherine Gorge? Mount Isa? Tennant Creek? Kakadu? The Devil's Marbles? Half those places are not even towns or cities, let alone having an airport for anything larger than the mail service and the flying doctor, and most that do are just another city for all but location - though to be fair, I am treating them slightly unfairly by saying as much. That aside, travel takes time - for example, if you want to see Uluru, sounds simple, but you're knocking at least a two day block out of your schedule - the nearest place you can fly to is Alice, and it's a 450km drive from there each way, plus time to see the rock, and the fact that if you're taking a rental vehicle, they often ban you from driving that stretch at night.
I'm not going to plan your itinerary for you or pack your bags, but I'm offering informational and planning assistance, for free, so you might plan better and extract the best possible out of your trip. I know the place better than any American travel agent, and you know I'm not trying to sell you any stupid packages to make a quota, or get an agent of the month plaque on my wall. You're working within the area of my expertise. I know y'all are capable travelers, I'm just offering an additional resource to get the best you can out of it. Oi, lackofcheese and a few others live here too, don't forget, and I don't doubt that most will show up. I'm not alone down here.
And he probably hasn't, but he's hardly alone, we lose (If you'll pardon the expression) a number of tourists each year who are driving between towns, they break down or otherwise have strife, and end up deciding to walk to the next town, petrol station or whatever, without realizing it's hundred and fifty kilometers away, sometimes dying en route, half the time walking past a half-dozen farmer's homes, because they don't realize there is one there, after a kilometer of driveway leading to it. It's genuinely the most common mistake, and really not a big one. Except on the times it kills you, but I don't think Scott would quite take it that far, he's not stupid.
Didn't know - or at least, didn't recall - that your grandparents had traveled through, that's pretty cool.
First of presumably many survival tips - Spread the Vegemite thinly.
Also, use sunscreen.
And yes I'm exquisitely aware that I started a sentence with the words "fuck, man, the dude".
Also, something, something, Robert Khoo, The Verge, PAX Australia.