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About me and my TC

The bookmark dubbed Mark Wordsworm, dangling from a plant stem, with a peg and a stone image of a sheep perched nearby

Me with Peg and Sherbet, two members of my merry menagerie

I am dubbed Mark Wordsworm. The TC is my Travelling Companion. She goes by the name of Sarah Maddox, and has her own blogs at ffeathers, a technical writing a fiction blog and Sydney Birder.

I am a Hallmark bookmark, serial number 95 HBM 80-1. At a guess, I’m around 40 years old. I spend most of my time inside a book (well, duh) while the TC (remember, she’s my Travelling Companion) sees the world.

My exact origins are lost in the mists of time and geography. The TC picked me up in a bookshop called “The Bookworm” somewhere in South Africa – Cape Town or Rivonia, most likely. The year was probably earlier than 1986. Putting modesty aside, I haven’t changed much. Alas, I can’t say the same for the TC.

Since then I’ve lived in South Africa, England, the Netherlands, and Australia and travelled the world. In this blog, I’ll tell you about my travels and pass on some acquired wisdom. A tad tedious, you think? Wait and see.

Do you know anything about me?

Drop me a comment if you’ve seen others like me or if you can pinpoint my age more exactly than I can.

13 responses to “About me and my TC”

  1. John pembroke Avatar
    John pembroke

    Mr. Worm,
    How, if available, could I apply to be an assistant to your work or colleagues of yours or yourself. I would love to research these gigantic crocs. If there is any job available in your field, please let know about it if you could.
    Thank you very much.

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  2. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Thanks for travelling guide

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  3. Hieronymo Avatar
    Hieronymo

    Hey! I think I might have had one of your brethren worms when I was about ten. Unfortunately he crawled into some campy mystery novels and was lost forever. Keep up the travels and the blogging Mr. 95 HBM 80-1!

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  4. wordsworm Avatar
    wordsworm

    Hallo Hieronymo

    Worm sibs, now there’s an interesting thought. We were all fairly close at one stage, but then we scattered to far-flung corners. We do share a family trait of getting lost in a good book. Perhaps the campy mystery lover (and by that I mean the lover of campy mysteries) will resurface and delight you all. Much as I have done.

    I’ve so much enjoyed having you drop by my blog, Hieronymo. I paid a call to your own blog and am greatly impressed by the richness and variety of content.

    With respectful regards
    Mark Wordsworm
    Travelling worm

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  5. Neha Rane Avatar
    Neha Rane

    Hello

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    Happy writing!
    Good Luck,
    Neha

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  6. Marie Avatar
    Marie

    Hey travelling worm 🙂 Thank you for this interesting and creative blog! Especially I liked what you wrote about Utrecht, since I moved to the Netherlands a few month ago. I wanted to ask you something regarding my master thesis. It is about travel blogs and how they influence the travel experience. It would be really helpful for me if I could have a little talk with you about it. If you are interested, I can explain you more via email. 🙂 Grettings from Tilburg, Marie

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    1. wordsworm Avatar
      wordsworm

      Dag Marie!
      Your Masters thesis sounds interesting. I’ll email you about it.
      Yours in academia,
      Mark Wordsworm

  7. Emily Avatar
    Emily

    Hello! I am curious where you found the city seal of New Orleans (first picture) in this post: https://travellingworm.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/new-orleans-views-and-vampires/

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  8. wordsworm Avatar
    wordsworm

    Hallo Emily
    The city seal is low down on the lamp posts. I guess a person needs to be as short as I to notice it.
    Yours humbly
    Mark Wordsworm

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  9. Sam H Avatar
    Sam H

    Dear Mark,
    My names Sam from ‘BeAmazed’ (https://goo.gl/sgvlrD). I just came across your video (“World’s 7th most dangerous road – Skipper’s Canyon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQeyyMUI77g) and I was wondering whether we could acquire permission from you to use some (maybe around 10 seconds worth) of this footage in a video we’re making called ’10 Most DANGERIOUS roads in the world’? We will of course provide you with written credit on screen (with an annotation) and your YouTube video link will be in the description. Just to let you know, we’re asking for commercial purposes, which basically just means that we’ll be running ads on the final video (which will probably be around 5 minutes in total). I hope this is all clear and there are no issues – it would be great to have some of your footage in our video. If you agree please email back (beamazedvideos@gmail.com) stating that you allow us to show some of your video. Many thanks!
    -Sam / Creator @ Be Amazed

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  10. 162march Avatar
    162march

    Loved the Dixon’s Long Point video and Hill End pics… question though, ont he Orange side of the river crossing, can a Nissan X -trail manage the track? We camped there a lot as kids and wanted to do a memory picnic day with the aging family. We don’t intend to cross the river just hangout on the river bank. Thank you.

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    1. wordsworm Avatar
      wordsworm

      Hi there! As far as I recall, the track that leads to the river on the Orange side (Long Point Road) is well maintained and should be OK for a Nissan X-trail AWD/4WD model, provided the track’s not wet.

      There’s a bit of a hill leading down to the river from the Orange side. Going up that hill in the wet might be tricky and other parts of the road might be treacherous in the wet. If it’s not wet, though, you should be able to get down to the river and turn into the open area alongside the river.

      I can’t be 100% sure though, because we were driving a fairly rugged 4WD and I didn’t take note of what the road might be like in an AWD.

      Have a good trip!

    2. 162march Avatar
      162march

      Dad drove us there in a Kingswood :).

      Thank you for taking the time to reply.

      Regards,

      Diana

      Diana

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