Category Archives: General

Netball Is Just Like Basketball. Except That It Isn’t.

Posted on by under General, Round The World 2009

While Australia is known for Rugby, the AFL and Cricket, it is less well known for Netball. This game is popular in many of the Commonwealth Nations and there are over 70 national teams in the International Federation of Netball Associations.

When I was in Australia, I was offered the opportunity to play a game in a Brisbane Netball rec league. I agreed because I was told that Netball is like “a women’s version of Basketball”, which I later learned refers to Mr. Naismith’s school developing a version of Basketball for its female students who couldn’t run around in their restrictive 1890s corsets.

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Step Out the Door to Adventure

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Past Trips

Svalbard Spain United States of America Antarctica
Map Legend: 9%, 25 of 263 Territories
ArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBoliviaBruneiCanadaCambodiaChileCosta RicaCubaEgyptEthiopiaGermanyHungaryItalyMexicoMalaysiaNew ZealandPeruSpainThailandTanzaniaUnited StatesVietnamHoly See (Vatican City)

“Traveling… forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends…

Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

– Cesare Pavese

 

Welcome to Same Skies Above!

I love to travel. Whether I am flying over oceans to new continents or just driving down the road out of the city at home, there is always more that is the same about this world than is different. It is always the same earth below you and the same skies above.

Remember: there are always adventures waiting to be had. We only have to step out the door to find them.