But I am, so you will just have to deal with it. Sorry.
I like to write in dot points for a number of reasons. Some of these are:
- Saves on doing grammar good and structure of sentences and stuff.
- Looks efficient and professional
- Makes it seem like you've said more than you have
- Lets me ramble and jump from topic to topic without having to come up with any sweet segues
Hence, I am going to write this post in dot point form
- Bailed on Adelaide the day after Australia Day. My head hurt. Moreso from seeing 2 songs performed by Jessica Mauboy, than the all day drinking, throwing up in a random public toilet on the tram line between Glenelg and Adelaide CBD thing.
- Lots of sweet towns between Adelaide and the start of the Great Ocean Road. Too sweet to bother remembering, coz I'm drawing a blank right now
- Great Ocean Road is good. Once you've seen one massive limestone monolith, you've seen them all. But seeing the first one is pretty cool. Also met some cool poms and random travellers as I got closer to Melbs
- Mat and Cassi (his housemate) are cool for letting me live in their driveway (but mainly their house) for wayyy too long. Also cheers to Collette for giving up her carpark for a few nights, and Marky for a spot on the street outside his apartment
- Melbourne is good. The weather isn't
- Tasmania is really good. The weather really isn't
- Highlights from Tassie: (yeah, I'm doing dot points within dot points. Deal with it)
~ seeing snow. SNOW! on Mt Wellington (overlooks Hobart) in Summer, in Australia. I only saw 2 really small patches. If I'd seen 3 it would've given me inspiration to write a sweet song. Ross, you should look into that.
~ travelling with a cool french chick and rad german guy for the first week, and another super chilled german girl for the second
~ super cool beaches. East coast of Tas has awesome nice white beaches. It was balls cold tho, so I was usually the only one in the water
~ heaps of wildlife. Unfortunately its usually dead, on the side of the road. But some of it isn't, which is nice.
~ amazing landscapes. Just like New Zealand*
~ mainly friendly caravan park patrons. We had a couple of sessions of 'quiet' drinks in the van over a few nights. We were asked not to return to one of the parks, apparently. (I walked away whenever there was a chance we could get in trouble, hoping that thick German and French accents would help us escape unpunished. Plus I'm a non confrontational pansy)
~ MONA. The Museum of Old and New Art. Some super rich guy decides to buy a sweet island/peninsula thing and dig a 5 storey art gallery into the ground and display his millions and millions of dollars worth of (mainly crazy contemporary) art for free. And of course he chooses Hobart to do it? Either way, its pretty awesome, even if i didn't understand half of the whacky shit that was going on in there. Exhibit A:
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| Car between two walls |
They drove a car between two walls and left it there. Apparently it wasn't cool enough to make it into the collection though, coz this was just outside somewhere. Other highlights include a full size Mack Truck parked/built into a hallway so you couldn't walk by, and could only see the front and the back. And the Damien Hirst piece that kinda looked like a 3D painting. Made entirely
of tens of thousands of flies glued together. If it sounds like its a bit too cool for school, it sort of is. But its also sort of amazing. I couldn't recommend it enough.
~ So yeah, Tassie rocks. I spent 2 weeks there and it wasn't enough. Could've done a month easy. So if anyone's thinking about it, do it.
- Heading to Golden Plains festival a few hours West of Melbs this weekend. Camping in van, BYO booze. Should be fairly incredible. Then hitting the east coast, Canberra and Sydney by early April
- The List is still happening. Just sort of slowly. Still eating random foods (curried scallop pies anyone?) and doing all that other stuff. I did complete a new one that I need to post about, but have to get the photos together first. Coz as Dooly used to say in his Jackass phase; if there's no footage, it didn't happen.
- That is all
*I've never been to New Zealand. Neither had my travel partners. But we want to. And we kept saying "I bet New Zealand is just like this", so it totally counts.
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