Half a year on the road and no stopping now
Trip Start
Mar 15, 2006
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Trip End
May 30, 2007
Sydney,
Australia
Friday, September 15, 2006
Like a good son, I had planned to be returning from my round the world adventures on this exact day, 6 months after leaving home. OK, maybe that good son thing went out of the window, I'm still away, and now I'm only half way through the trip.
Added to this I now have my brother out here (he arrived 2 days ago), Tim coming to visit in December and then my parents at Christmas, so its all kind of changed a bit. I am so glad I changed the plans to stay on. The thought of returning now, when life is so interesting makes me appreciate more and more the added time and experiences I am getting.
This also means I have now been living and working in Sydney for 2 months. The living's going really well, and the work's pretty decent. Unfortunately I have yet to actually do anything related to my hopeful career path, despite a number of possibilities and interests. So I'm at the restaurant 5 or 6 days a week, a couple of shifts on the bar and 3 or 4 as a waiter. Its hard to complain too much about anything though when you walk out of work onto the harbour and wander home through this fascinating city.
I am doing my upmost to make sure I don't settle too comfortably into a work related life, that's not why I'm here, its just a means to an end, and I make sure to do stuff all the time with my days off. The view that I have every time I go to work, or return home to our rooftop never gets boring, and there is always something I have yet to see.
In recent times I have been feeling more and more creative.
A regular tuesday night of fun
Making, photographing, drawing and writing bits and bobs. Though it doesn't always flow constant, its great that this is proving to be such a rewarding and inspiring experience.Living for a decent amount of time in a place allows you to get your teeth into it so much more than the number of places I have passed through. It also brings home this lifestyle of constantly meeting new people and then having to say goodbye to them, which you really don't find yourself having to do all that much back home. I think you do become accustomed to it, but you end up building very strong bonds with people very quickly, since these are your family away from home; which makes it a complicated experience.
So what have I been up to in the last month and a half...
Working, taking day trips, exploring, partying. I took a trip up the coast to Newcastle with my roommate to see the place and meet the family she used to live with, and this was great as you just never get the chance to meet the locals properly. I've finally picked up the surfboard and am loving the chances I get to go out. Last week this meant a rise at 4.45am to get to the beach and back in time for work. And this weekend a bunch of us decided at 2am to go out to the beach and wait for the sunrise, which was just beautiful, before falling asleep in the sun.
Well thats a little update of my news at the halfway point on my trip. I hope everyone back home is well, and I'll see you again in the same amount of time since I left.
I now look forward to knowing there are so many more things I have yet to see. Keep it coming...
