Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Sonoma on Monday, LA and Vegas by Tuesday, Denver on Wednesday, Chicago by Thrusday and Wash DC by Friday!
3000 miles coast to coast, 5 lbs fatter from fastfood, lots of conversation with Ryan and an amazing couch is what was waiting for me DC. Thank you Christiana for picking up my phone when I was in Kansas trying to figure out what I'm going to do Friday night. I had the weekend to build my work wardrobe, figure out my route to work, and see a little of the city - too easy.
Friday, July 24, 2009
New Zealand
standing on the worlds steepest street in the world. Grade: For every 1m horizontal 2.89 meters vertical
The crew
We did a lot of driving... had to keep busy somehow in the camper van
The Ball
23km
Only 6 km to go! One of my happiest moments ever
Getting pumped with kellen before the run
8 km mark...still looking pretty fresh
we did plenty of touristy stuff too
Rowing Day
Kovacs - our star rower
Queener's Racing
Hair cuts of the guys seconds
ok wow, so it's been a while since i've posted on this thing. I've been back in California for a few weeks now, working on campus at Poly. But first I have to wrap up my Melboune and and Oz trip. I'll throw in a few of the big events leading up to my flight home - starting with Rowing Day.
Yup woke up at 6am, was down by the river eating breakie at 8 watching the races until Noon. At queen's the sport we take most seriously is by far rowing. With this said it's obvious that the ENTIRE college would be watching as well. We won all 4 events: Men's 1st, Women's 1st, Men's 2nd's and Women's seconds. This amazing feat has never been done in the history of University of Melbourne and many said will never happen again. Needless to say the celebrations were high spirited and lasted weeks. To keep us entertained between races were the traditions of Watermelon heads which entails making a helmet out of a watermelon and bang heads until one breaks...whoever's lasts the longest wins (i didn't participate...haha) and the hilarious haircuts the Men's seconds (for aeronautical reasons of course) revealed that morning.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Tasmania
Spirit of Tasmania
Brekkie
Wineglass bay
Yup, we tore apart the broken stove and did it cave man style
Proof that I drove...a manual too
Cradle Mountain
My spring break...er rather Easter Break was spent in the cold cold Australian state of Tasmania. From what I've picked up, Taz and Tazmanians are always at the receiving end of any bogan, worthless Australian joke. I however found out that it's gorgeous there. Me, an American (Jules) and two Australians (Sarah and Mel) took The Spirit of Tazmania over (a giant ferry) and Mel's very tiny car. We packed that thing full of tents, food, sleeping bags, mats, toilet paper, pots and all the essentials. We did a 5 day, 4 night road trip/camping trip which we covered most of the state. We hit up the popular Cradle Mountain, Wineglass Bay and the capital, Hobart. In Hobart we stayed with a friend from college where we appreciated the warm shower, great food and a bed. We also went through many small towns. We counted roughtly 50 roadkill a day!! Mostly wallabies but a few tazmanian devils. Our first dinner, we quickly found out the gas stove that we brought didn't work and from the picture above you can see how we manned up, and cooked over an open fire (ended up taking about 2 or 3 hours to cook pasta and chicken this way since we couldn't find any good logs to put on the fire without a hatchet). As you can imagine we only did this method only the first night and instead resorted to cooking with these free electric stove BBQ type things that were randomly around Taz. The last morning we were awoken to POURING rain and our tent collapsing on us due to the STRONG winds. We got soaked, our tent got almost gross...good thing it was the last day! While hiking around Dove Lake (pictured above) right below cradle mountain it snowed on us...up the hype was right - very cold but beautiful.
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