November 01, 2002

hey everyone.

   well we finally found a place and we are now settled in Lismore, new south wales.  its a nice little flat, its actually got two floors, kitchen and living room downstairs and bathroom or toilet as they would say and bedrooms upstairs, and my bedrooms got a balcony, so were always out on that.  its only 135 a week and they are actually really cool landlords, they hooked us up with furniture and everything, we got two single beds and bunch of dressers, tables, chairs, and a couch.  here in aussie its not normal to include a fridge but a stove is included, weird eh. but they hooked us up with a brand new fridge its really pimpin, and a nice new stove and we got a washing machine too but its really old, prob the pioneer of washing machines, its a twin tub if anyone knows what that is, and if you do if you could please tell us how to use it that would kick ass.   so now our big thing is find some work, which shouldn't be that hard cause we aren't picky, not right now anyways.  we have been surfing every day this week so far and will go out today too.  Lismore is about 25 minutes inland from the coast so its not a bad drive, the town of Ballina where we go to surf has a higher cost of living so that's why we went inland, we figured the money we save on living here will just go to gas, which is about 82.9 in Lismore and 95.9 in ballina, that's a crazy difference eh.   our car is still running good and we have already popped about 1000 k on it so that's alright and nothing is too wrong with it yet except it stalls when you run low on petrol.  no big deal.    well I think that we should head out and enjoy some surf hopefully its good out there and you people enjoy the snow that you are getting and make use of it.... okay!  ( road map of our area ) 

cheers    -Oliver and Travis

hello everyone

things are real good here, we have decided to settle down in a town called Goonellabha, it is close to three other large cities and about half an hour away from Byron bay which is a great party place we have discovered, it is a kick ass place to surf as well. we are having a awesome time surfing, we have been going at least once a day and starting to get the hang of it, its such a huge rush being in a large wave and getting thrown around. we have met some amazingly nice people who have invited us into their house and let us stay a few nights.

Yesterday was such a disappointment to Oliver and I because they don't celebrate Halloween so I hope that everyone partys extra hard and gives a little more candy out fore us.

love Travis and Oliver