Scotty Doesn't Know - Travel Songs

Not that this post is about EuroTrip and that song. This post is about songs that remind you of trips you've taken.

Rock-a-bye your bear - The Wiggles

This song was played ad nauseum on a trip between Queanbeyan, NSW and Narrabri, NSW in 1994 when I was 5-6yrs old and my brother 2-3yrs old. My family went to visit my great grandfather (my dad's maternal father). We stayed in a caravan park where there was a triple bunk bed. I remember we drove (about a 12-13hr drive) in a Toyota Camry and had the Wiggles tape on repeat.

 

 

Summer Sunshine - The Corrs

This song was playing on the inflight radio on China Airlines in 2004 when I travelled to Alberta, Canada with the Namadgi Redbacks Marching Band for the Calgary Stampede.

 

 

Paper Planes - M.I.A

This song was on the 'bus mix' when I was on a Topdeck trip in Europe in 2009. It was around the same time that Slumdog Millionaire was released.

 

 

How Far We've Come - Matchbox 20

Another 2009 Europe song. This was our 'trip song' - the first one we'd play on a drive day on the bus.

 

 

Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga

Japan 2012, was on my iPod playlist. Was pretty magical speeding through towns, cities, and fields on the shinkansen whilst this song was playing.

 

 

Sign - Flow

Japan 2012, another on my playlist.

 

 

Good Time - Owl City ft. Carlie Rae Jespen

New Zealand, 2012 - this was a song that my Topdeck group had to perform at the Marae near Rotorua, was pretty fun practising it on the bus.

 

 

Work Hard - David Guetta

Another New Zealand song, it was the trip song like Matchbox 20 was.



Been a long time....

Just realised last time I blogged was in March this year. I've been busy working - doing the on-call life and studying towards my masters' degree. At the moment I'm watching Looking for Alibrandi. I remember seeing it at the cinema with my mum when I was in year 6 (back in 2000) and thinking how things would be in 6yrs time when I was in yr12. While I didn't have any huge revelations in yr 12 (2006) a la Josie Alibrandi, it was a year that I grew up and began to understand the world a little better.

We always have times where we seek something, whether it be truth, knowledge, change, ourselves, others. I think that we are all like Josie sometimes.

I had the movie on VHS and now I don't have a VHS player to watch it with, so I got the DVD!

I liked reading Melina Marchetta's other novels - notably Saving Francesca and The Piper's Son.

In terms of travel... in 58 days I'm off to Japan with the boyfriend! I'm pretty excited, 21 days there with a week in Tokyo, then 4 nights each in Osaka, Hiroshima, and Kyoto before 2 nights in Tokyo then home again.