i have come 7000 miles to be trapped in suburbia with a single mom and her 7-year old (adorable) boy. is this a vacation???
while i am indebtted to my host for free lodging, meals, transportation, introductions to (almost) everyone i know on the continent, i need a little variety. last night, saturday night, i played connect-4, [...]
i was picked up at wendy’s house at 1:00 in the afternoon and settled into a cocoon of a coma 14 alcohol-soaked hours later. my god.
we started out at a Bondi RSL. an RSL is a place where they have cheap beer and food. we consumed much of both. it overlooked the beach and ocean [...]
we met for lunch yesterday. i was a good half-hour late, thanks to crazy bus/train schedules, so i was off to a good start.
to all those people i told i knew what i wanted and the meeting was going to be a formality and all that other crap…i officially have no idea what i’m talking [...]
are up! there’s a random selection and completely uncommented for the moment, so bear with me, but you can at least see something.
check the “my pix” link on the right for the gallery.
as one of my earlier posts indicated, i’d been struggling with the idea of this trip a little bit. it turns out i’m not a very good tourist on my own; i’m not interested in “seeing” things. i’m a fantastic companion, of course, just not on my own.
well, i had a mini-revelation on the bus [...]
the next leg of my journey is now confirmed. i will be flying to cairns on wednesday morning. for those unfamiliar with australian geography, check a map.
are you really that lazy? just google “australia map.”
do i really need to do it for you? fine. here.
at cairns i will probably investigate the diving and sailing thing [...]
i went into a library last night. i can hear you all now - “you’re on vacation, why are you in a library??” but it’s MY vacation and i wanted to go into a library so stuff it!
anyway, the point is that books are another place where the US and australia are radically different. for [...]
i met matt and teesha for dinner last night and caught up (which was very good). we ended the evening in the Star City casino, the only one in sydney. it is populated largely by asians. and by largely i mean exclusively.
we wanted to sit at a poker table and play some hands and see [...]
i can thankfully say i am more at peace with the sarah-situation now. i was able to get some more background information and while you can’t always trust what people tell you, i think it’s pretty clear that she’s not the girl i wanted when we were in vienna.
so, a little tip to you aspiring [...]
played a friendly, $10 game of poker last night with three other people.
thought i was in the money for sure when after the first three hands i took out two people. first hand, no action, small bet, fold. second hand, i’m big blind, i flop a straight, someone goes all-in on 2 pair, i call, [...]