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March 31, 2005Capital Good TimesI emerged from the mountains like some kind of primitive man. I was road-weary, unkempt and completely unshowered. I was starting to appreciate just how big this country was. Granted I was not taking the most direct route but I...Read this update Missy the BeastyPart of the responsibility of driving a van around Australia is to name it. Now we had already ascertained that the van in question was female (the pink stripe down her side was an indication) but the name was to...Read this update March 29, 2005The Seperation of Wife and MateAnd so, after only a little more than two months of marriage, Lisa and I have seperated. Okay, Okay, it is not that kind of seperation. Lisa is staying in Melbourne while I go off to explore this vast and...Read this update March 19, 2005MelbourneOur trip to Australia on March 15th was very uneventful. We have been looking forward to arriving in Melbourne for some time because we have a friend, who happens to be an Australian citizen, who is living here right now....Read this update March 14, 2005Rugby, Navigation and MagellenWe stayed for two nights in a cute little place called the Welcome House outside of Nelson (north coast of the south island). It was nothing more than a couple in their 60's who had opened their house for backpackers....Read this update March 08, 2005It's a small world after all!Shortly after the skydive we learned that our friend Anne Karpfinger (my friend from Marquette) was going to be in the same area as us! We tried to call her cell phone, but it wasn't on. We then decided that...Read this update March 02, 2005Free! Free Falling!So from Fiordland we headed north for the Wild West coast of New Zealand. We pulled off the main motorway and spent a few days in the quiet little town of Okarito (population 30). We stayed at a little "hostal"...Read this update |
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