October 25, 2002

hey everyone.

well here is my general letter so I don't have to explain all the same shit
a  million times.     we finally bought a car we got this 1985 Toyota Camry
for 1100 bucks and its running really smoothly right now except its a
friggin dump in there only took us only a couple days to mess it up, and its
decked out in some stickers already, give us a month and the thing will be
supped right up, or broken down... one of the two.  another awesome thing is
we bought ourselves a couple of surf boards.  they kick ass.   we both got
6'6" length and about 20 inches wide, mine is a bit shorter for width, but
we went against what everyone told us, they said start off big so you can
get the hang of it but we said fuck it we can learn.  and we went out today
to check out some swell and we found a little spot but its hard man....
maybe we should have went big....naaa fuck it, we love our boards and we
love our life.  so now we have two boards in the back of our car so its even
more packed.  the last couple of nights we crashed in the car, last night we
spent at seal rock, and little inlet sticking out into the ocean and before
that we stayed in a town called Newcastle which was pretty cool that's where
we bought our boards.   so the east coast rocks except we got some forest
fire action going on here like there are 4 fires actually going on right now
around Port Macquarie where we are right now, and we drove through some
mild smoke every once in a while, but no flames yet.   today is really windy
where we are but temp are up around 25 degrees and its going to get hotter
as we go up and as summer kicks in... well everyone take advantage of the
kick ass snow your going to get this year cause its going to be a dump and
think of me when you ride the powder and ill think of you when I ride the
swell............

cheers    -Oliver and Travis

 

well it is a blast here, we have done a lot of things like buy a beater car, it is a 85 Toyota Camry that can haul some ass, it is a not bad car and hopefully it will go for a while. we have also bought a surf board which is the coolest thing, today was the first time we tried it and didn't have much luck but we also didn't have that big of swells so hopefully we will have better luck in an hour. We decided to leave Sydney Thursday but we had to stop at the zoo first which was very cool, don't worry it was not the Australia zoo Brian. we have been driving up the coast and have visited lots of awesome surfer towns, we are in a town called Port Macquarie now and will move on tonight if nothing comes along. the beach is so nice but the water is horrible tasting, and we have seen  topless women just relaxing getting a tan and lots of people surfing and body boarding. well I'm going to go to the beach so take care and I miss you guys. 

Travis 
ohh and if you want to get updates and other stuff like pictures of Oliver and me it is on his web page it is www.oliverberger.com