Bored in Sydney
It’s day 2 here in Sydney and I am bored so I decided to write on here. I fly out on the 31st and am just killing the days away. I’m stuck in a hostel for the next couple days but I’m doing my best to not be there except to sleep. I’m not doing any cooking there, instead just making salad and eating raw foods. I’m also eating out at all until I get to Thailand, which is a bit tough. I keep walking by restaurants, stopping and reading the menu, thinking what I would order if I were to go in but I’m denying myself this to make food abroad just that much better. Weird I know but I believe a little self-denial makes those things just that more nice. I was going to completely abstain from getting coffee and tea at cafe’s but as I aimlessly wander around I find myself drawn to them for a place to sit and chill out
I’ve been just wanding around the city the last couple days, seeing some of the sights that I’ve never seen before and revisiting old ones from when I first arrived nearly a year ago. The weathers been shit the last bit and was crazy windy today which made it dam cold. I’m sure I’ll miss the cool weather as Bangkok seems to be holding out at a balmy 28-32 everyday
Sydney Botanic Gardens, haven’t been here since my second day in OZ
My family is long gone now, it was a bit of a tearful good-bye but we made it as quick as possible. I had a good time with them but there was a bit too much running around for my liking. I was hoping to just spend more quality time with them all but I forget that they were all on vacation and wanted to see things, do things, buy things and that they had seen each other pretty much on a daily basis back home. I did manage some good quality time though, mom, Tiff and I went for coffee one day for a couple hours and the last day it was just me and mom wandering around and sitting at a cafe drinking tea. Those two times were worth all the running around hassles and seemingly aimless car rides that we so frequently ventured on. I was about to go insane a couple times while in the car; I figure in those 3 weeks I had spent more time in a car then I had in the last year. I enjoyed the driving with my sister and Tracy as it was in the country but all the city driving had me at wits end. In the end I wish we had another week to just do nothing and relax. I scratch my head when people say that they need a vaction from their vaction and are eager to get home. Frankie says RELAX
So for the next couple day’s I’m going to be bored. The first day, the day everyone left was good as I hit the gym with the Crossfit Crew and then went wall climbing with Mike later that day so that really took my mind off of the day’s events and the fact I don’t know when I’ll see them all again. Ends up Mike is going up to Thailand also, getting there on the 7th or something and is pretty much going for the climbing in Krabi, which is where I was referenced that I should check out by lots of people so odds are we’ll be getting together there and doing some climbing, which should be pretty cool.
I’ve got mixed feelings about Thailand and Asia. I’m dam excited at the potential that it brings but I’m a bit afraid that it’ll be like…well…Austrailia. I’m contantly being assured it won’t be though and that there is more than the piss tank culture that’s at times seems to be the only thing here, while staying at a hostel that is. People accuse me of being cheap and I am to extent but the reality of it is, is that this place is bloody expensive and I never feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. I’m a simple guy, I don’t like buying pointless stuff/junk as I view it all as clutter plus where am I going to put it? All I ask for is good food at a fair price and a decent place to stay, something that this country doesn’t seem to afford.
$20 for an 8 bedroom dorm that looks like this is, to put it lightly, shit
Ahhh, the Australian backpacker scene…how I will never miss you…
Yeah I could splurge and put myself in a nicer place but remember, when you itinerary is stretched over a one year period and driving principle is no itinerary, you have to make every cent count.
Regardless, after all the bitching of OZ that I’ve done I will miss it and the great people that I’ve met here. It’s the people that I’ve met here that have made the experience. If I had to choose between one experience of wwoofing that involved the people that I stayed, lived and who’s family that I was part of over all of the sights that I had seen, I would take that one group of people and experience I had with them over everything else. Rocks, beaches and trees have always been there and always will, it’s people that come and go. Or so says I.
I will say though, that one really great thing about travelling Australia is the different ways you can do it, see it and live it. I managed to find my way around the hostels, backpacker scene, meet some real Aussies, and got to see how people live life in a different way. I could have jumped from hostel to hostel, town to town parying it up but that’s not me. I could have jumped in a van and driven around the country aimlessly living the life of a modern day gypsy, which I would have liked to of but never got the chance to.
I have to shake my head; I can’t believe it’s been a year that I’ve been down here but here it is.
Current Mp3 listenings: Misfits, Nick Cave, AFI, Arcade Fire
Current “radio hit” listenings: “I love it” Sneaky Sound System, “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin” Scissor Sisters
Current readings: Dracula by Bram Stoker – found it at the hostel
Troy
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