I miss camping. Maybe i should become a gypsy. As devastating as it was having to set up my $15 k-mart tent (of terrible quality) in the rain (and on more than one occasion we actually considered sleeping in the front and passenger seats) it was all kinds of excellent not knowing what would happen the next day and boiling hot water over a very disappointingly assembled campfire (my fault) and meeting awesome people you wouldn't normally talk to back home. I miss drinking tea with european backpackers and having conversations with couples while their kids paddled in a creek. Also this one possum that stuck it's head in my tea cup for like 10 minutes and then scuttled off into a tree where it proceeded to stare at us for what i can only assume was a long time. We got bored and went to sleep. Good times! And now i'm back in the same town i've lived in since i was 5. Not so exciting but i guess it's cool to have a place you know you'd always be able to come back to.

Just one more year and i'll be holidaying madly around the UK and Ireland with my good mate Bec and a few of her old England friends. And then i might have to become a gypsy as i have no other ideas if what should happen with my life. Hang on, i'm annoying myself. I'm going to suggest that i shut up and stop talking about the future's uncertainties

home

Finally in my own bed. I can't tell you how great this is after spending nearly every night for the last week on very hard ground with a rather shitty sleeping bag. But i did have heaps of fun, we stopped in a lot of little towns, all with weird names, on the drive down and then stayed 3 nights in a motel in Dandenong. The drive back was infinitely less enthusiastic. Probably owing to the fact that the weather was horrible, and just to make matters worse i got a three month suspension on my licence and an annoyingly large fine *sigh* Then as if to add insult to injury it was too wet to set up the tent. We slept in the car. This my friends was a bad day. But aside from that, it was just so excellent to be in places i'd never seen before and meet people i'd never met. We caught up with the very same Germans we met camping a couple of weeks ago and had a very good time.

Ah Porepunkah.. Awesome place, awesome name :)

Little lane in Melbourne looking suspiciously like diagon alley but with probably more vegan cafes

Feast to celebrate staying at a place with a shower

Now my throat hurts and i want nothing more than to lie in bed with a cup of something warm, good to be home and showered.

Hmm, these photos are depressingly pixilated and i don't know why. Maybe i should sleep in compensation