We’re here. It’s been a couple of days of physically painful, bleary-eyed jetlag. I don’t even know if I can do it justice. The trip was, well the trip is over. Let’s just say that I am not traveling back to the States or Europe until the trip here is somehow erased from my memory.
I’m currently scavenging someone’s free wireless from a shopping mall somewhere south of the Adelaide city center, so no music or photos. If I’m being honest, I’m not yet enamored. But, I’m open minded, with the full recognition that the more sleep I get, the better things will look.
Impressions so far - bone dry, lots of birds (including wild cockatoos), more American than British.
Zach and Dr. O’C are slowly coming into Australian time. We get Timmins back on Friday - I think things will start looking a lot better by then. Hopefully we’ll have our internet sorted by next week and your underwhelming correspondent will be back like cooked crack. Until then, I’ll be trying to keep me kangaroo tied down.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure that I saw some kind of exotic Australian marsupial crossing the road last night but everyone is trying to tell me it was a cat.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Not Afraid To Use It // Apr 26, 2008 at 3:58 pm
This is a pretty coherent post after all that you have been through. Kudos to you to holding it together. Publicly, at least. I like your perspective on sleep making all things look better because that is the gods honest truth. I hope the days fly until you get Timmins back again.
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2 Mar // Apr 26, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I was catching up on your blog and oh, surprise, you are in Australia now!!! jetlag isn’t amusing, hope you get internet access soon to hear more from you
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3 arizaphale // Apr 27, 2008 at 6:04 am
It will grow on you. Come a bit further north. Oh and did it rain enough for you yesterday?????
I imagine you will spend some months saying ‘What the HELL have we done?????’ Try to look towards the end of the tunnel. Past the oncoming train I mean…..
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4 Sherrie // Apr 27, 2008 at 9:41 am
I refuse to go to Australia or New Zealand (although its high on my wish list) unless I have my working holiday visa and I plan on staying in each country for one year, because otherwise I do not see me getting back on the plane to go to my next destination. I went from Vietnam to Argentina on one horribly long haul and thought about driving my nails in my eyes just to break the monotony. With a baby maybe you were wishing for monotony!
With sleep everything looks better! And Australia is big, if you don’t like it where you are you can move!
5 Lara // Apr 27, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Hope you all get settled in soon.
And don’t believe their story that it’s just a cat… they tell some tall tales down there, I hear.
6 Maggie, dammit // Apr 27, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Glad you’re safe on the ground, and beginning to settle. The internets can wait — it’s more important that you keep your family safe from “cats”.
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7 headbang8 // Apr 28, 2008 at 1:31 am
Happy Valley? Oh dear. No wonder you’re subenamoured.
Is it Arizaphale’s parents’ place in Happy Valley?
Will be seeing Arizaphale later this week. If you’ve time for a coffee, drop me a line.
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8 trouble // Apr 29, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Thanks for the update, hope all is well!
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