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Trip Start Aug 28, 2008
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Trip End Feb 28, 2009


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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Well, I made it... and without too much worry. Aside from a vegetable oil spill and a little parking fender, Tom and I managed to drive about 3000 miles over the past 12 days. Stops included: Kalgoorlie, an old western mining town where the bar girls serve beer in their "skimpies"; a night of camping on John Eyre highway, a 90 mile stretch of road through a shrub dessert; climbing 40ft sand dunes on the beaches outside of the small town (pop 200) of Eyre; participating in the annual "Tunarama" festival in Port Lincoln where I placed in the tuna throwing competition with a distance of about 30ft (No worries, the tuna was made of old rubber tire); climbing the Flinders Range, a dessert mountain range that is over 200 million years old; and finally celebrating Australia Day in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Obviously, there were many other stops, but these are some of the most memorable. Now we have arrived in Melbourne and are getting ready to go watch the big mens tennis match on the big screen outside of the stadium (entrance - $20, fun - priceless). My buddy Tom is taking his acrobatics lesson now, and today sadly will be our last day together as I leave him to his two mates who have flown in from England to begin a 5 month working holiday in Australia. As for me, I will take the van up to Sydney, hang out with some people I have met in my travels, and fly out to meet Mr. Gary on the 10th, as scheduled. So there it is, short and sweet. I obviously have more stories to share once I return home, but as for now, my internet time is running low... and we have to get over to the stadium for one of the biggest tennis matchups in Australian history. Denise, Im sorry you couldn't be here for this... and yesterday, we could have gotten tix for the womens match but they were running at about $280 a piece and I didn't have Dad's CC number so, it just didn't work out. But perhaps look for me in a lawn shot, they expect the turnout there to be pretty high.

Take care!
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