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A Very Long Year 2021 - The Year of Pandemic Fatigue and sobering anniversaries

Posted on December 26, 2021January 2, 2022 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

It was supposed to be the year of freedom for all of us. The year we hoped life returned to a bit more normality, but alas, pandemics seldom ever last just a year. COVID-19 is still the mantra we all live by – the cause of or excuse for every social or economic disruption we…

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Pandemic World Living in the shadow of COVID-19

Posted on November 1, 2020December 7, 2020 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

Introduction It seems like an age since of all of this began. Pandemic – that word that carried such urgency, never really registered in our collective consciousness. When major outbreaks of diseases were discussed before 2020, they were often in the realms of fiction such as the film Contagion, the video game Pandemic or novels like…

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No Sleep till Kaitaia Two weeks in New Zealand's North Island

Posted on February 21, 2020February 24, 2020 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

Part One: The Road To Wellington 17/01/2020 – 19/01/2020 After some last minute touches to the packing and some final adjustments to my car, I headed off on 17th January. I wanted to see more of my own country before I headed off overseas and while I have been to all the main tourist spots…

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The Travel Post The ideal gear and resources for long term travel

Posted on December 31, 2017January 5, 2018 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

Before my disastrous trip to Brazil was cut short earlier this year, I was scouring over the travel blogosphere reading various packing lists. While I ended up packing a lot of useful gear, I ended up overpacking and regretted it. I was hauling a huge suitcase alongside a backpack and large laptop bag between accomodation options. There…

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The View From Santiago A Short Diary of my Unplanned Trip to Chile in July 2017

Posted on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017 by Heydon McIntosh3 Comments

Otras Europeas – Other Europeans. This is what I’m classified as in Chile by the Carabineros in the Police report. The reason why I had to obtain a Police Report, or even the reason I’m here in Santiago is a disappointing story This is a story of how when travel goes wrong, and why the most important…

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2016 In Review  Looking back at a tumultuous year

Posted on December 31, 2016September 29, 2022 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

The Year In Review Welcome to The Out Post’s first yearly review. I started this blog earlier this year and despite planning to write more, life seemed to get in the way somehow. I promise you my Dear Reader that one of my New Year’s resolutions will be to update this more often; Writing about…

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Quotetastic! Notes on my first Board Game

Posted on September 29, 2016September 30, 2016 by Heydon McIntosh2 Comments

Hello Again! Apologies for my lack of posting recently, but I’ve been busy the past two months with a really fun project I’m happy to share with you: A Board Game called Quotetastic! Early Beginnings The original idea came to me in late 2015. I’ve always enjoyed party games like Articulate, Apples to Apples, 5…

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Welcome To The Out Post

Posted on May 25, 2016September 29, 2022 by Heydon McIntoshLeave a comment

Welcome to my first readers and to all those who cared enough to have stumbled across this site. As the name implies it’s intended as both a refuge and a place where all my writing is posted out to you. I tried starting a blog years and years back but soon gave up on the…

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