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The birth of a mini photoblog!

Hello blogosphere!

After a recent scare -- ok that’s putting it mildly-- it was more like a panic stricken, lose all control, massive heart attack – over the weekend, I have been reminded of the significance of photographs and what they really mean to me. I’ve been using this old dog of a computer for about 3 years now and Dave and I always joke that it’s going to spontaneously combust any day now because we treat it like a heaping pile of junk sometimes. Neither one of us knows a thing about virus control or fire walls and so in the midst of mad button clicking, as I often do to get the pop-ups off my screen ASAP, I randomly clicked on a security warning, and in a flash deleted every single file I had on my computer!!! Gasp...is that even possible?? I can attest to that, that yes, unfortunately it is! And to make matters worse, I had an external hard drive sitting in my desk drawer and hadn’t bothered to back up my files since Christmas time – that was soo half a year ago! Yikes. I'll cut to the chase, the good news is that smarty pants IT guy at the office was able to recover my long lost files, aka photos, that so devotedly hold all of our cherished memories....thank goodness. But a lesson was learned in the flash that I lost it all, and that was just how much these pictures mean to me! They are the single documents that detail our every adventure... two lovebirds who have set out to see the world though their own eyes and dance in the streets where the stars are upside down, a half a world away. This precious time we have spent growing together in unfamiliar territory is a time to cherish (not to mention we are gonna need this evidence to look back on someday when we are old and grey and losing our marbles!) So in ode to all that was almost lost, I have decided to take up a little challenge to post a picture each day of the weekend as a mini photoblog project (minus when I will be heading out to site for field work – more on that to come!).

I have tried to create a new link above (next to 'Home'), called Wanderlust...a place to document our itching feet and hungry minds! For now the photos will be scattered between these posts on the main page until I learn how to separate them. I hope you enjoy coming along on more of our crazy rides.

Xo Tegs

I spy a cheshire cat in the sky...

Life On The Run

Big news!! Dave and I have survived the Gold Coast 10km race last weekend! We didn’t really spend a lot of time prepping for the run, so we were really proud of ourselves for crossing the finish line just over the 1 hour mark. Yep, that meant no stopping for this girl, good thing Davers was pushing me through it, or I would have definitely took a power walk a time or two or three. But we actually had a blast, and it felt amazing to finish our first race, together as a team. The pictures posted here are to show the shabby scenery we were forced to take in as we ran along the coastline at Southport...painful isn't it?! Beaches, yacht clubs, surf and sand...I guess if we have to run 10 kms somewhere, it might as well be by the sea!

We are already scheming up some plans for our next race to enter...the Bridge to Brisbane in September. 

After the race I had a photography lesson on the gold coast for a couple hours, so when we got back to Brissy we were ready for some hard earned R&R.

Tomorrow is our last game of the season for Touch Footy...hard to believe we survived the league, but it was a total riot. Sad to see the end of such a legacy haha can’t wait for next season to start up again!

Xo Tegs

Road Trippin' to Bargara

Hey y’all! My apologies for being slow to get another post up, life has been keeping us very busy lately with no signs of a slow down in the near future! And as irony would have it, I went from posting 3 blogs in one week to no new material for almost a month! But I have been working on some new stuff lately and this post is chocked full of photographic evidence of our busy schedule! (My appologies in advance...these pictures are quite small and so dark?! They dont look like that before i post to the blog...hmm might have to fix that!)

Last weekend Davey & I hit the open road on a weekend road trip to Bundaberg (yep that's the bus we rolled up in and then we had to cross the river in this boat...jk~). Actually, we were headed to the quaint seaside town of Bargara, which is just east of Bundy...about four and a half hours north of Brisbane. We had previously visited the one horse town of Bundaberg in 2009, home of the infamous rum distillery, and that's about it. So, this time around we were on a mission to visit a friend, Mel (who happened to be placed at Bargara on a work assignment).

 These are some of the pictures I took as we stopped to have a stroll and stretch of the legs along the way.

 There were so many cute little beach towns dotting the coastline on route our five hour journey. We stopped at a place called Tin Can Bay to frolick in the sand...unfortunately for me I fell right out of that boat, and suffered minor injuries doing so...thank goodness were weren't actually on water!

 Once Dave & I reached our destination for the evening we enjoyed the yet another beautiful sunset over the ocean and had a yummy BBQ with Melly at her resort complex. (Again, so dark and tiny...darn!)

In the morning we woke up with the birds and headed out in our jammies to watch the sun rise over the ocean. I just love this time of the day...probably because I don’t see it nearly enough!

After brekkie we turned around and began our five hour venture back to the city, but not without a much needed stop for some sexie coffie...hey, we all need a little pick me up like this to get through such a long drive. And, yes, incase you were wondering, that's totally how i drink my coffee too...balanced gently on folded knees...doesn't everyone?

It should also be noted that Dave and I believe we have found where Noah’s ark washed up on shore...its in the Bundaberg area in case anyone is still looking for it?! Could have come in handy during the Brisbane floods of biblical proportions...what a waste.

Anyways friends, thats the story of our weekend roadie, glad we could share it with you! Check back for more adventures of Tegs & Dave shortly...I will have more photos to share of our first race together, which we ran on Saturday and lived to tell the tale!

Ps- feel free to leave a comment and let me know what kind of material you like to see on the blog...this means more than just the regular commentators...the fabulous Sheri Carl and my mom! haha (love you both!)

xoxo Tegs

Riverside Bike Ride

Hi loyal blog readers! I’ve been blog poster extraordinaire lately (yeppers...3 posts in a week!) and wanted to close out the long weekend with some photos from our bicycle tour of the river valley this afternoon. We Google Mapped the route and found out it was 15kms round trip! Not too shabby. Since I’d like to entice all of my fabulous friends and family to come to Brissy for a visit, we thought maybe these scenic shots will help do the trick!

Cute park bench with a view.

We promise to take any visitors on a sunset stroll through the river valley to behold the gorgeous views that are right in our backyard. Sooo do we have any takers?

Xo Tegs

ps - Is it wrong to find this ridiculously funny?

Gotta watch out when riding your bike...those speed humps come outta nowhere!!