THE BIG WALK (Daily Blog)

Welcome to my daily online diary, where I will write about my experiences leading up to (and during) CAPTAIN AUSTRALIA’S BIG WALK, where I will walk from Brisbane to Melbourne dressed as the boofhead superhero Captain Australia for The Kids’ Cancer Project.

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I’ll be making daily facebook live streams if you’re just interested in the giggles, this place will be more of a diary for you (in case it helps lift you up somehow) and for my children and their children (so they can know their father, who loved them, and hopefully carry that light with them throughout their lives).

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Joke of the Day

Did a massive road trip – as a blogger, I suck completely. You can check out facebook @CapsBIGWALK if you’d like to know the kinds of things that happened, but among other things: Anyway, for now, while I figure out what to do and how to approach my next major Quest … jokes.

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My Birthday & the Walk-iversary

G’day. You might know already that my name is Simon, and on 26.12.21 I dressed up as the boofhead superhero Captain Australia, and walked from Brisbane to Melbourne. These past weeks, I’ve been focusing on my health, muscling up, and preparing for the next challenge (I intend to walk again, this time all around Australia,…

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Musings on Sorrow and Hope

This is another video excerpt from Day 77 of the BIG WALK (For The Kids’ Cancer Project), where I was talking about sorrow, pain, how the world sometimes seems like it’s built to hurt us, to pin us down and keep us there. But then I talk about transforming sorrow, pain, fear into hope, and…

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Manifesto of Kindness

In a world that sometimes feels broken, I’ve been trying to figure out who I’m supposed to be, what I’m supposed to do. This video is an excerpt from a live-stream taken on Day 75 of Captain Australia’s BIG WALK (for The Kid’s Cancer Project), that kind of sums up how I feel about life…

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Insights

G’day There Just wanted to share some insights. One literally being from the SBS Show Insight – I was on the tellie and the program aired on the 4th of October, here’s an excerpt. If you want to see the full thing, sign up for SBS live-streaming and look at past episodes of INSIGHT, it’s…

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Einstein, Archer & Insight

Next week, on Tuesday, I fly down to Sydney to appear as a panelist on the SBS program “INSIGHT” I’ll fly back Wednesday night. Honestly, I’m a little nervous, mainly about my credibility, because I’ve fallen to bits (at least a little) since getting home from the walk. I’m doing well, it’s just the long-covid…

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Just for Giggles: THE CAP RAP

Okay, so my middle son Sully is on the spectrum, and we sometimes play these little ‘rap games’ where we take turns rapping for each other .. it’s great .. it allows him to think on his feet, practice structuring a narrative, rhyming, and takes away the ‘high stakes’ from normal speech therapy, makes it…

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The trickle of stones that signifies an avalanche ?

I finished my BIG (practice) WALK almost six months ago. The past six months for me have been a pretty volatile time. I’ve often felt like a ‘hot mess’. But a strong, viable, mentally sound & hopeful hot mess 🙂 The walk gave me that. My active attempt to rebuild hope. Using that hope to…

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Shout out to my phenomenal friend, Jhye

I met this kid and his mum on the road out from Ulladulla, on the way to Bateman’s Bay. I’m just re-living those moments now as I write up my journal of the BIG WALK. (If you’ve rando subscribed and have no idea what it’s all about, my name is SImon and I walked from…

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