Pegasus Motor Inn Brisbane

... I hadnt really slept for nearly 24 hours and her actions would almost certainly confirm her place in heaven. She laughed at me, gave me a voucher for Starbucks and sent me on my way.
On my second attempt to check in, with a different clerk who was not necessarily any friendlier, went smoothier than the first. She scanned my passport and didnt even enquire about my visa documentation I had previously been instructed to get. I could have cried ...

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Finally........after about a week of driving my little white car for hours upon hours every day we made it home. Now just to unpack it and wash all of the bugs off it :( The Trip was really good from Walgett. The traffic was normal in Moree and we stopped at the Roadhouse at Goondiwindi. was good to ...

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I have been doing some last minute Japanese language practice and have realised we are pretty much doomed in that regard.

:) we embark at 8:45am tomorrow.

Japan here we come!

... an extreme amount. For instance, in this store, the grapes were $3.99 per kilo. However, I have seen them as much as $18.99 per kilo!

cereal $4-5 per box
2 litre bottle of milk $3-4
fresh snapper $26.89 per kilo
fresh trout $30.49 per kilo
whole chicken (uncooked) $6-7
bananas $2.99 per kilo
roma tomatoes $4.99 per kilo
1 bag 200g M&Ms $3.79
1 large cadbury chocolate bar $4.00
12 roll package of ...

... on their boards, skimming over the waves, holding onto a tow rope attached to jet skies . To catch a wave, they just let go of the handle and surf, they make it look so easy. We watched as one of the semi-pros caught a huge wave and then gasped as it dumped him. It was a complete wipe out and then half his board flipped up into the air, as the wave ripped it in two. The Sunshine Coast The next day, Jacks and I went up to the Sunshine coast, to Noosa ...

As we suspected, Easter is going to interfere with the unloading of the truck and we may not see it off the dock until Wednesday next week!! I have been keeping an eye on the shipping schedules and it looks like the ship will be worked on Good Friday but the snag is getting it cleared by the local CIQ on a Saturday. Although it's ...

... fun weekend with the family we had first met in Turkey. More play time for the kids, a walk in a mangrove forest and even a night out for the parents, sans children...life is good! Or in the case of our hosts, Dennis (aka "the smuggler") and Bettina, life is twisted...in the course of the weekend we were treated to their references to the legendary (fictional?) giant marsupial water rat, Bacon Busters magazine ("Australia's only magazine dedicated to pig ...

... a grill open to the air. The slats in the grill are so small that a mosquito would have more trouble getting in than a person would falling out, which isn't helpful for pictures, but I guess it does cut down on lawsuits in this litigious age. Not to mention the unfortunates below who end up with some idiot splattered across their car. Another fun thing I visited was the Wax Museum. I'm a sucker for a waxworks place, I dragged ...

... To be honest after a while the river just looks the same the whole way down. The endless corps of Chinese people approaching me with Cameras to take pictures of them infront of the river, and that big tree over there and this leaf made me move through the stops quickly. At the second last stop down there was a toilet and nature was calling. I stood at the urinal and was half way through the business and I looked up to see a spider the size of my hand ...