David Douglas Stuart

@davidbhimself.online thanks for the reposts

Kama And Blowy In Thailand and Laos - YouTube

About seven weeks ago my brother and I returned from a big two-week rollerblading trip around Thailand and Laos. It was exhausting skating in the tropical heat every day but extremely rewarding and we met some great people. We vlogged it: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Night shot of a well-lit, small skate park. Graffiti on the walls.

My mate is the only rollerblader in his town in northern Thailand. He had nobody to skate with. He had nowhere to skate. So he made his own skate park.

Ibis reigns supreme.

A hand holds an ageing photo of a man and woman on a motorbike. The man is wearing an overcoat and has a knife clenched in his mouth. The woman is sitting at the back and she is holding a surfboard.

How cool is this picture of my parents?

Cicadas are all wonderful! That’s what I think!

I think I read that in Evrisamting yu bin wantem save lo bislama be yu fraet tumas blong askem.
Never heard that phrase in the wild, as much as I love it.

I moved to Japan almost exactly one year ago – in which time I've ridden public transit all across the country & collected 113 different IC cards (…so far!) 🚞🥳💳
I'm still missing a few, but at this point, it's enough to finally lay them out to make a map of Japan! #交通系ICカード

I have a new toy.

A bunch of green bananas hangs over a wooden fence. Park trees visible in the background.

Bananas are street food in my hometown.

YouTube video by David Douglas Stuart Comparing my hometown and its Japanese sister city

My friend @bigkamo.bsky.social just published a pretty cool short video:

youtube.com/shorts/y3d0u...

#Japan #Australia

Haha. I’ll try but I can’t make any promises.

Glad you made that decision!

Vanuatu [Travel writing reformatted for Instagram] - liminal web Vanuatu?! Have you ever even heard of this country?

My friend @bigkamo.bsky.social has had a certain number of interesting adventures throughout his life, including an extended stay in Vanuatu.
Here are some tales from that time:

www.liminalweb.site/vanuatu-trav...

#Vanuatu #TravelWriting

Physically locating an address in Tokyo the old-fashioned way - liminal web I grew up in Australia and I always thought of an address as the following: property number, street name, suburb, state, postcode.

How did people find their way in Japan before smartphones, Google Maps and the rest?

@bigkamo.bsky.social tells us how:

www.liminalweb.site/physically-l...

#Japan #Tokyo

Link here (on the other platform) to thread x.com/bigkamo/stat...

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Haha. That’s right!

Remembering that time in grade four when I heard my “friend” JB telling somebody else in the class that he didn’t really like me and he was only using me for my Tarzan swing. 😭

An in-line Skater transfers from a quarter pipe to a wedged ramp

An in-line Skater grinds along a ledge

An in line, Skater rides a large concrete ramp

An in-line Skater rides, a large concrete ramp

I went to a skate park yesterday to indulge in some rollerblading and, after a while, a kid approached me and told me his mum had been taking some photos of me. She’s just sent them through this morning. What a legend! I’m normally on the other side of the lens.

Devices built into a utility pole

Weather flaps protect the USB ports from the elements

<grandpa voice > When I was a boy we didn’t have no USB charging ports or smartphone cradles built into utility poles at the local skate park.

Amazing indeed!

ah, old mate from that show!

Woah! I don’t even have a tick on the blue bird!

Thanks Joshua! Yeah, I’m certainly enjoying the fruits of those efforts now.

nice!

haha, let me know how you go!

Thanks for watching and thank you for the welcome!

Screen shot of definition of the word 'old mate': a person whose name you do not know but whose identity can be deduced from the context

If you ever visit Australia, it's important to know this word.