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Friday, 21 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 21 Nov 2008 | Views [799]
How can one describe a Byron Bay sunset? impossible, I think, in words. impossible in photographs. alas, I will try. it's as if the water itself is glowing. there is a golden haze floating atop of the water. swirling over and around the surfers, ... Read more >
Tags: australia, byron bay, laurfish, poem, sunset
Tuesday, 16 Sep 2008 | Views [613]
Down the street from the Ahern’s is a front yard with a walkway
lined with lavender. Every time I walk
by it, I lean through the gate and run my hands along the leaves so the scent
stays with me all morning.
The bike ride from ... Read more >
Sunday, 14 Sep 2008 | Views [2556] | Comments [1]
Lorne is easily everyone's favorite town on the Great Ocean
Road. A modest 900 live here year-round,
but the population swells to a roaring 30,000 (yes, 30,000 ) once the summer rolls along. With arguably the GOR’s best beach and hippest
restaurants, ... Read more >
Tags: great ocean road, lorne, pottery, qdos, wwoof, wwoofing
Sunday, 14 Sep 2008 | Views [754]
I completely forgot to mention this... I have a business!
Several weeks after Pat and I returned to Melbourne, Maxime
and I bought used bikes. We got em from a bike rental shop that was trying to get rid of
its old generation bicycles ... Read more >
Tags: bikes, business, making money abroad, melbourne
Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 | Views [645]
Check out my photos by clicking the links listed in the bookmark section of my journal!
Tags: photos
Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 | Views [617]
I wanted to take the time to pay homage to my best friends
here in Australia, so you know a little more about with whom I'm spending all
my time.
My best friends here are mostly backpackers that I've met
through Patrick and his hostel.... Read more >
Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 | Views [797]
General Update:
Still living with Sally and Steve Ahern in a historic suburb
of Melbourne. To recap, I was put in touch with Sally through our family
friend, Diane Arnold, who went to boarding school with Sally for a year.
The Aherns have ... Read more >
Tags: echuca
Monday, 25 Aug 2008 | Views [1077] | Comments [2]
As my e-invitation read, yesterday was a day-long festival of "food,
friends, film... and good ol' fashioned fun!" Around noon, my friends
Maxime (my best girl friend here; French), Leif (Vancouverian) and
Adrien (French aussi) and I set ... Read more >
Thursday, 14 Aug 2008 | Views [975]
I moved! Earlier this week I left Patrick's apartment in the funky St. Kilda neighborhood for the quieter, more posh surburb of Hawthorn. I'm now living with Sally and Steve Ahern, their 18 year-old student daughter Pheobe, and their adorable (and ... Read more >
Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [1953] | Comments [2]
So I haven’t yet described Patrick and my “mist”-ical trek
through the Blue Mountains or our snowball fight in the Victoria Highlands, but
I simply must share this experience as soon as possible:
When I entered Bar Open, it was as if ... Read more >
Tags: brunswick, melbourne, poetry, slam
Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008 | Views [933]
...are not posted on this site. Check out my photos on Facebook by following these links: Roadtrip Photo Album 1 -- Preparation for Departure... Roadtrip Photo Album 2 -- Melbourne Architecture Roadtrip Photo Album 3 -- Take Off! Roadtrip ... Read more >
Tags: photos
Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [1101]
...is to live twice. (marcus valerius martial) I have a ticket to Christchurch, New Zealand for 23 September! What am I doing until then? I guess we'll find out soon enough...
Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [1050]
If you’re looking for an all-in-one nature paradise
get-away, Fraser Island is it. The
biggest sand island in the world (with more sand than the Sahara desert!),
Fraser has over fifty miles of straight, postcard-perfect beaches; extensive
sand ... Read more >
Tags: fraser island
Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [1028]
Byron Bay: As the hippie-backpacker-touristy-surfer town that everyone in Australia knows and loves and yearns to live near, Patrick and I found it difficult to leave Byron Bay. We spent our four (extended from three) days giving into Byron's siren ... Read more >
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Thursday, 24 Jul 2008 | Views [929]
In brief, yet quite full: Two days of independent wandering around the city and its environs. Hands-down, my favorite parts of the city are the historic area called The Rocks, and Manly, a peninsula north of the city reached by a 30-minute ferry. (You ... Read more >
Tags: manly, sydney, the rocks
Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 | Views [670]
(written at the start of the road trip...) For the last three days, our schedule has been such (an
itinerary with commentary):
1) Drive drive
drive… along Highway 1: Princes Hwy through national forest, teeny country
towns, large ... Read more >
Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
Affectionately known as "Tassie" (from my strudy abroad travels in 2006)
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Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
One month in Melbourne and I was never the same again. (from my strudy abroad travels in 2006)
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
Photos from Australia, taken during my semester abroad
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