I know, I know, I fell off the face of the book. I chose to stop checking my facebook page for many reasons, but mostly to get the most out of my experience abroad. I love all my friends back home and though they are not in a foreign country, they are still doing wicked cool things. Unfortunately, they will be having their own crazy adventures whether I am there or not, so it just seems a distraction to be trying to follow their lives while keeping track of my own!
Joe and I lived in Brisbane for a month because the holiday season is the busiest time for restaurants and we were able to easily secure a job until the new year. We spent New Years Eve at work, thankfully our job has a huge patio directly in front of where the council shoots off it’s celebratory fireworks from the middle of the river.
I really wished our work was open on New Years Day, because on public holidays, the service industry gets double time, aka, paid literally $50 per hour. I clocked out at 12:15 NYE, so for those 15 minutes, I was paid $14...not bad.
So we flew to Melbourne the following week, stayed with a totally awesome guy named Ben, who makes incredible crepes. We saw crazy rad street art and beautiful botanical gardens, got our first sunburn (which to me means summer has officially started), and was introduced to the wonders of pintxos (a Spanish tapa that is a small piece of toast with unique toppings).
We also were able to meet three awesome travelers, Matt and Keegan from Wisconson and Martin from Denmark, who were all in the same boat as us. We all wished to escape the city, see the Australian countryside, and maybe be enlightened with what direction our nomadic life should take. Obviously they were perfect partners to start a camping trek across Victoria (the Southeastern most part of AU). And so we go.
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