back in cairns

Well, we drove a lot.
The drive here was pretty fun, but it took 6 days. I ate a lot of ham and cheese sandwiches.

The highlight was the 'Daly Waters Pub'. It's one of the oldest pubs in the country. The walls are covered in crap. Bra's, money, jersey's, photos, and pretty much anything that can be fastened to a wall. When people go there, the point is to leave something behind on the wall. Gavin stapled his old youth card up, and I stapled up my treasured 'Point Pub' card. We found a great spot right as you walk in. Clint also donated his ram's skull he got on the farm he worked at. We all signed it, but left it in the hands of the manager to put up. Hopefully she puts it up.Out in the back, there's even more junk. On a wall of licence plates, we found a British Columbia plate. Sweet as.

We began constructing our Halloween costumes yesterday, and hopefully I'll find the missing pieces today so I can 'Giv'r' this weekend.just an average morning on the road.

make party

We arrived in Darwin yesterday. Camped for free all the way up. We didn't do very much sight seeing or exploring though. The only nature stop we took was to go see the 'Geike Gorge'. Other than that it was business as usual. Drove as much as we could so we could get here. We saw heaps of dead cows and kangaroos on the way. The smell was rancid, even when driving past them at 100km's. The reason for all the roadkill is road trains. Imagine an 18 wheeler at home, and add two more trailers on the back. They can be as long as 52.5 meters long, so you can imagine that they don't stop for nothing, and even a full size bull doesn't even faze them.

We could have made it a bit quicker, but we got off to a slow start on Saturday, and then we had a little bit of car trouble on the way, but we made it nonetheless. We checked into a hostel and I got to sleep in a real bed for the first time in months. And, best of all, the room is air-conditioned.


Tomorrow we exit Darwin as quick as we arrived, and have about a week of driving until we arrive in Cairns. We are hoping to be there in time for Halloween, so we can hit up the Woolshed.
numero uno.

its like a party, but its better than a party

Last night we celebrated birthday's, even though no one in camp was having a birthday. But, back home in Canada, three of me and Drew's comrades were. My brother Colin, Nate Byron, and Matt Junker all share October 10th as the candle and cakes day.

I picked up some sparklers, we got some beers, and we pretended we were at a birthday party, although, we sort of were.

We are leaving Broome on Saturday morning. Gavin bought a Nissan Patrol, that we can easily fit all our stuff in. Him and Amy will ride in that, and I will roll with Clint in his Ford Laser. We will have room for two more people to ride with us, so I'm going to put up a sign on a few message boards around town. Drew is heading back to Perth, then flying home for a short vacation to Canada.

I think my last day of work will be Wednesday night. Definitely going to miss working at that place. I'll especially miss the guys in the kitchen. We had a lot of great laughs. And, I'm not sure I'd ever have the opportunity to tell anyone I've worked as a sandwich maker.

Yap.