First report from Oliver and Travis, October 22, 2002

well everyone we finally made it.   we got here yesterday at around 7 in the morning and stayed up all day enjoying downtown.  there are about 4 million people in Sydney and you can tell.  the weather yesterday really sucked kinda cloudy and almost rained but they need some rain down here cause its been really  hot and dry the last while, I guess they are going through a pretty bad drought.  but today is awesome and I think that we are going to have to hit up a beach and check out the ocean.   on the way down from Japan you could see Indonesia and all the way down Australia, it was so clear and beautiful.   Japan was crazy expensive, food costs so much, the only thing that was really cheap was a carton of smokes....20 bucks Canadian, what the hell eh, cheaper than the natives get it.   the aboriginals over here are apparently just a bunch of drunks, last night this one in the bar wouldn't leave me alone till I gave him a sip of my beer, so I did, and then these aussies next to me looked at me and said ... "this is your first day isn't it?"   haha I guess its a normal thing for them to be harassing everyone and I was the sucker who fell for it...haha.   well things are going awesome and I hope its the same way at home.   later on today we might head up north towards Brisbane, I think that we are really looking forward to maybe getting a place or somewhere to settle cause these hostels just become a hassle to unpack and repack especially when check out is at 10 am and all the people in your room are slobs....haha oh well I cant say I'm the cleanest person in the world.... anyways take care and here is a pic of Travis and I in the airport before we leave

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Two Happy Travelers !