Wolfboys Travels

Summary of Adelaide and Perth

pushknock — Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:43:00 GMT

We got to Adelaide and started walking in the 40 degree heat, and met on the walk a gentleman from seattle who we hung out with the rest of the time in adelaide. His name was Roger Federer haha no it was Jaysun but he looks like the famous tennis player! We went to the beach and played frisbee, walked around got to know the lay out of Adelaide. We met with a friend named Megan, and we went out for some drinks. The following day we went for a drive and went to the summit of Mount Lofty, we went to a German village and had Meat pies! Megan dropped us off and we had to say goodbye. We even got goodie bags!

In Perth we arrived after 48 hours straight and then some on the train. We went to an ex-canadian's hostel, and it was not up to par really. The people who were there had taken over the rooms, so there was no room for us. So we moved into another hostel, and it was an improvement. We then went on a four day surf camp in Lancelin, which was amazing exhausting and I got injured. I twisted or tore or sprained my big toe joint on my right foot and it has not fully healed yet. It has been almost two weeks since the injury, I was hoping to heal faster.

Other exciting tid bits was that after the surf camp, we stayed in the same hostel when we got back to perth. However we had a new roomate who was a local aussie. He we found out in the end however was a "nutjob". He was not following rules of the hostel by smoking in the rooms, and he wouldn't even open the window. There is of course more than just that, that occured, but it was enough for a small complaint for him to be moved to another room. We were out getting food when they decided to tell him of course, and when we came back my laptop had been broken. He of course denies everything, that he lost his key was a good excuse. Anyway we did learn something from the event, and that is to be extra careful in hostels.

We went and saw Green Day play at the Burswood Dome! It was amazing they know how to perform absolutely! It was one of the coolest concerts I have been too!

From there we have had to fly to Melbourne because the trains were fully booked due to the holiday season! So we need to find some type of work after the holidays for sure. Costs keep rising, however, nothing we had not expected!

Off to find another hostel!

Arriving in Sydney and the first three days of Uncertainty

pushknock — Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The flight was easy enough, no one died from blood clotting. We had to wait in toronto for three hours, vancouver for one hour, and arrived from start to finish in about 25 hours. We arrived on a saturday at 9 am, and have to wait until monday morning so that the banks open up. We have been surviving on credit cards for the past two days, and our first meal we ate at Subway. We had our classic chicken bacon ranch of course! We received help from three people just trying to find our way to the hostel, one was canadian working Australia, and one was a cyclist and one had relatives in moncton N.B. funny enough considering we flew out from moncton.

Halloween was a crazy party time for syndey, and we just chilled during the partying because well the stupid banks were not open! Our first day of walking the city comprised of three separate walks, which made us lost and confused. But we found our way back like always. We saw the opera house and that was freaking awesome. It made the trip feel more real! We ate at korean BBQ and Wolfboy had pork, and I had Eel! Which is very fishy tasting salmon! We did the touristy picture taking and laughed. It has been amazing weather and hopefully will stay this way. We found out that we will be taking the train all over australia for at least two months! So that is about the extent of our planning. We need to go run to the bank so that we can pay for tonight at the hostel now! Wolfboys OUT!

Packing For Trip

pushknock — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:28:00 GMT

It is 8:30 pm on a Wednesday. The night before our flight to the Outback. We have just cancelled our cell phones, which means we had to pay an arm and a leg to get out of cell phone contracts. Fellow wolfboy was hit harder than I with extra costs for cancelling. Our pay back will hopefully come when we no longer use cell phones because of the greedy cell phone companies "extra random charges".

The packing is coming along slowly. Some people pack, repack, and re-repack before their trips to make sure they have everything. That is not the wolfboys style you see. Sure we pack but, we do not get stressed out about it. When we think of something good to take we throw it into the pack. This is why I am currently still not packed (haha). Now not packing too much is hard when you are constantly throwing random things into your bag. So the solution is, when travelling, anything you bring must be expendable. You can always buy more clothing, or gadgets, or toiletries. Or just carry a lot of useless crap on your back! Whatever floats your boat!

So with all of this knowledge of packing, some would think that I should be at least somewhat packed. This is true, I am somewhat packed. However, the only thing I can think about is those stupid cell phone companies. They have to be super rich! I wonder if they would sponser us? Honestly though how hard is it to walk around with a cell phone and repeatedly say, "Can you hear me now?". I wonder if there were auditions? This sounds like a good video skit! Awesome!