March 23, 2003  from Oliver 

Hey everyone

Well you are all prob wondering where the hell I am now. its been a bit of a battle the last couple weeks, our (Aaron and I) original plans was to head up to Hamilton island, just off of airlie beach to find some work. on the way up there in maroochydore the RTA (road and transport authority) decided our car wasn't fit to drive anywhere anymore. we had 24 hours to get it back to lismore, where Travis transferred into his name. we were pretty choked cause all we wanted to do was get up there and start work. Sasha and Andrea a couple Canadian chicks that I worked with in Harrison told us about a little place called stanthorpe, 2.5 hours east of Brisbane. they have caravan parks and hostels here and they set you up with work and a place to stay. we found one caravan park just 10 min drive south of town and found work right away, I had a grape picking job for the first bit and Aaron was picking zucchinis. Grapes I guess are the easiest fruit to pick and zucchinis are the hardest...haha. Aaron quit zucchinis cause of his back and I haven't picked grapes in a while cause it has to be really dry outside so they is enough sugar in the fruit or some crap. but anyways we got tomatoes picking jobs now, really easy ones, where we just grab the pickers full buckets and carry them to the truck dump them out and bring them an empty one (bucket boys were called) we got a shitty little caravan for 75 bucks a week each and are starting to save up some cash. this sat one of Aaron's friends is going to get us a cheap flight up to cairns for a 100 bucks and then were going to go get some work up there and check out the sites. oh yeah we sold the car for 200 bucks cleaned everything out and said our goodbyes, it was hard but I pulled it off, its just sitting by the caravan behind ours, our neighbors bought it the day we got there, pretty good luck considering we kinda wanted to let her go........

cheers to all of you and talk you soon

-oLiver and aaron