August 2009
1 post
Due to Popular Demand...
Well it’s been many months and I still haven’t wrote down anything that has happened since Byron Bay. That is about to change! As most of you probably know I left Australia on June 10th to return home. My cousin Rochelle and my brother Steve both had weddings within weeks of each other, making my trip back very necessary. I then went back to Australia, the third time in my life, on...
May 2009
1 post
Post-Byron Days: Part 1
So, it’s been a month or so and you’ve been wondering what I’m doing. You sit at home, click your bookmark to my blog site, and are consistantlydisappointed. You refresh the website, because by God, I could be writing a new update and submitting it while you sit there staring at the screen for ten minutes, just jonsing for some more of my incredible tale.
Then, some day toward...
April 2009
8 posts
We're Off!
So, I haven’t posted in a while. Well, I’ll let you in on what’s happening.
Kyle, John and myself are travelling with Ben, Simon and Rex in a van. We will be looking for work on farms. We will be camping most nights. That’s all I know right now, and I’m leaving in a few hours.
My birthday went well. Bonfire on the beach and kayaking with dolphins. You know,...
Delayed Updates
I’m sorry I haven’t been able to update you recently. The free internet that I was using got shut down so now it’s one dollar for every fifteen minutes online. This limits me to a few hours a week. I hope you understand.
There’s news though. We’ve had some change-ups recently. The staff was getting too rowdy and the management didn’t like it, so a few...
The Story of Nomad, the Large Disgusting Toad that...
Well, I think it’s time. It’s time for me to inform you about Nomad. He’s a fat, human-sized toad that walks upright, though it’s more of a sway than a walk. He smells of bile and hot garbage. He says “Get back to work!” in his shrill, greasy, Nomaddy voice. He’s the keeper of Nomads hostels everywhere. He is the product of John, Kyle and me at our...
March 2009
3 posts
A Day in the Life of a Nomads Odyssey Housekeeper
Hello all! Yes, I realize that I haven’t written a blog in about 3 weeks or so. Internet is expensive here though, and these blogs can take some time to write. But I’ve come across some free internet, so I’m going to take my sweet sweet time updating all of you.
Now my mom has told me that everyone’s under the impression that it’s all just fun and games over here...
The Tides Change, And So On...
Stuff got real in the last blog. This one is full of hope and doesn’t end on a down note, so here it goes:
After spending a few days in Mackville, waiting on the police and the bank to do their thing, we decided that it was costing us too much to stay at a hotel. We had heard of a campground nearby, so we packed up and headed to Gumma Reserve.
It was a small open camping area with a...
Next on the Aussie blog: Drama! Excitement!...
G’day everyone! Boy do I have a lot to tell you.
So when I last left off we were camping on the most beautiful campsite we will probably ever camp on. We were able to look at stars for the first time on our trip, and boy were they gorgeous. It wasn’t the best sleep I had, but waking up on top of the world with a first hand view of everything amazing made it all better.
We ate some...
We're Still Going Strong!
So, where did I leave off? Newcastle? Okay, I’ll tell you about Newcastle.
The first day was standard; we went swimming, walked around town and hung out at the hostel. The second day we were on a mission: we had to find white gas for our camping stove. We took a (free!) bus to a camping store, but they were out. They suggested a gas station or a hardware store. We walked to a bunch of...
February 2009
1 post
The First Blog!
Greetings from a hostel in Newcastle! I guess I’ll get you readers up to date…
We got to L.A. and got to our Best Western hotel. It was pretty nice, and we were pretty wiped since we had not slept yet. We started to unwind when John realized that he had left his Macbook charger back in Windsor. Needless to say, this put a big damper on the evening. But, in the time it took me to...
June 2008
1 post
“But Mr. President, they’ll see everything! They’ll see the Big...”
– Gen. “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb