[tripdiary] going wayward...

coooooooober pedyyyyyy.....opal capital of the world!

slept underground last night and it was a lil spooky actually... :S

okbye for now :)

[tripdiary] in a town like alice..

finally the time has come for me to finish up what has been a magical two months for me with a blast! booboo.. so in two days i'll be hopping on a bus and heading out into the red sands of the aussie outback doing what i love most... camping! :) i'm hoping it will be good and i do think it will be awesome! but i keep my fingers crossed! ;)

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being on the move for so long has allowed me to see this beautiful world down under from a different perspective, and it has also given me the chance to experience so much in so many ways. with so many different thoughts its a lil hard to put in down in words at once and i reckon it will have to wait till after all of this before i am able to do so. from the first train journey, to the first new city, the first night alone in an unfamiliar town, to the first pub crawl with newfound friends on the road, thru worrying times, fun times, to magical sunrises and sunsets, to sad farewells with people you're not sure if you'll ever meet again, i will never be able to get over it all. it is something that i believe everyone ought to do at least once in each lifetime. its not about how much one has to spend, because at the end of the day it will never be enough! :P but it is about spending within means and putting aside a lil time for a lil crazy adventure!! ;)

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ok time to go find a proper internet cafe to do pics! ta`

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"But we're never gonna survive, unless...

We get a little crazy

No we're never gonna survive, unless...

We are a little... crazy"

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Alanis Morissette - Crazy

[tripdiary] sunnyside.

it seems like its been so long, but maybe its just the trains that made it seem so. finally arrived in darwin after so long and the heat feels so much like home. :S lucky i'm only here for two days but i have a feeling that i wont wanna leave when time runs out! :P

hmm...

[tripdiary] spoiled.

back in ade now after a lovely trip on the indianpacific! i reckon the crew wanted to make sure i stayed sane after travelling so much on the trains, so they got me upgraded to redkangaroo sleeper cabins! woots! it might not sound much, but it was heaven compared to the daynighter seats i've been on since forever... i got a two person 'cabin' all to myself, and a proper pull-down bunk bed! :S

oh no internet time runnin out AGAIN. ta for now, be on train to darwin till sun! ;)

[tripdiary] eatin up the tracks.

ok so i havent found time to blog on the footy game, but in the one week i've done my best to explore melb you see. wells, or rather the melb that desmond knows of plus a lil more! :P

you see.. my dear ole fren des doesnt get ard much. so when frens come down for a visit he becomes a 'tagalong tourist'! :) had a looksee in the city itself, fed square, the train and trams, brighton beach, the great ocean rd and the beautiful apollo bay but that didnt really leave time for much else tho. also managed to catch up with dillon last night with des and dillo's sis over dinner and hot drinks after.

had a lil confusion tryin to plan out the next step but i reckon i've got it all sorted out now. all tts left is to book one tour tml and i'll be pretty much set. am in adelaide once again now, and will also just be staying here for one night this time, but the next week will see me on the move mostly. dropping off some crap back at "base" and resuming my current passion of traintracking. :S

pics will have to wait for now! laters! till perth... or darwin! ;)

update.

taken by dEStAN at brighton beach.

pretty much sums up how beautiful the simple things can be. ;)

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"there comes a point where meeting people is the trip,

and the breathtaking scenery just is a nice bonus.

therefore never discount any encounter,

for the one you miss might be the one

that teaches you most about life."

[tripdiary] all for footy!

took the train from sydney to adelaide last wed, only a 24hr ride and it seriously felt too short for me. this time round the crowd was generally older and made up mostly of people that weren't really travelling (well in a way :P). but like adrian said, rides do seem to go by faster now. and the difference a good crowd of ppl makes was so very obvious. :S

got to adelaide and left the few ppl i met on the train as they chugged off to perth. boohoo! met han after that for dinner at some viet place that served delicious noods. its been more than 5 years since i've last seen him and it was good to see him again. too bad i only had one night this time round in ade before i hop on another train to melb.

woke dark n early in the morning to get to keswick train station for my ride to melb on the overland. on this ride that was packed, there were even fewer travellers. mainly cos its a short 12hr ride and just a good alternative to flying between ade n melb. :S all i was hoping for on this sector was that the train reached melb on time. why? cos i was to watch a footy match an hour after i disembark! :)

more on the match later... :P