Cooool Teepee Maaaannn!!!
Trip Start
Mar 15, 2006
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Trip End
May 30, 2007
Byron Bay + Brisbane,
Australia
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Arriving in Byron Bay after a series of kinda soulless hostels (certainly after the ones in South America anyway) I decided that I was going to try out this hostel/resort I had heard about called the Arts Factory. Its a little bit further out of town than the other places but it sounded interesting, especially if you could get into one of the more unusual 'funky abodes'.
I did, I got the main one - the heralded Teepee, and man it was quite a different experience. A large tent with 10 beds arranged around a central fire. This place was originally formed in the 70's as a Hippy commune based around the arts, and was apparently quite a major rock venue in the 80's
01. Clarkes Beach by Byron Bay
. The hippy feel has remained really well, and being part of the Teepee community somehow makes you feel a little different from the dorm residents.Its a small world. Whilst walking down the street in Byron the other night looking for somewhere to watch the Germany match, who should a bump into, but Josh, the guy I had trained up at Pizza Express just before leaving. Guess I must have inspired him more with the travel talk than the waitering lessons, as he left to come here a month after I did.
As I said, it has rained an awful lot since I have been here, and consequently I haven't done a great deal, but I'm really tempted by that surf, and I will have to get into it once I settle down somewhere I reckon. I'm working on the hair anyway, as I haven't cut it since leaving home!
I moved on to Brisbane for a couple of nights, and am now off to Hervey Bay. And today I pass milestone...100 days on the road. It feels very much like I'm rushing along between these places at the moment and struggling to take them in for what they are, but its still fun and I think my brain is aching with how much its trying to take in.
