captainkidd79

Oi oi from Sydney(Coogee Beach), Made it back to Australia!!! But now I miss New Zealand and especially New Zealand prices! I don’t know if it was my Dad who instilled it in me but I’m a sucker for a good deal and to know that our dollar in worth $1.30 to every kiwi dollar just makes me feel good and be able to do a lot more things. So now that I’m back in the expensive Sydney suburbs and it’s so hard to do anything because it’s so expensive. Just getting a subway sandwich and chips costs me $11.50 Aus. Needless to say I’ve been eating in a lot and doing a lot of walking and swimming. This is my second day on Coogee Beach which is right down the street from the famous Bondi ... read more

Back in Auckland, After hitting the bus lines hard and traveling to Queenstown from Lake Tekapo and back to Christchurch with a hop in the midst consisting of a plane flight to Auckland I have made it through my New Zealand adventure. I now sit in a hostel/hotel watching the winter Olympics awaiting my plane flight early tomorrow morning back to Sydney and back to the heat! Upon Eva (German girl) and my departure we had 2 Israeli guys that wanted a ride to Mt. Cook as well so we through them in the back on the way up. Eva and I ended up just doing some easy short hikes here and there trying to get a good vantage point to view Mt. Cook and surrounding glaciers. We ended up hiking for 4 hours or ... read more

Good Morning from Auckland 2/8, I have finally made it to New Zealand after numerous plane ticket problems as well as credit card problems. My Kiwi friend Jane I met in Austria last year and she picked me up from the port and arranged a beach house trip to the small beach town of Russell, NZ. Russell lies 3 hours north of Auckland and is built pretty much on a small mountain. There is also a heap of different facing beaches in each direction as well as islands scattered along all coastlines. It’s a beautiful quaint town in which is the oldest town on record in the country of New Zealand. While we were there there was an ancient ceremony across the bay called Waitangi, which was the treaty between the Maori people and the European ... read more

maties, We said our sad goodbye’s to everyone and made our way back to Perth with the road trip crew. Rhett and Nadia had dinner plans with family so they dropped us at 6pm or so and our flight was at 11:15pm. So we had a few hours to kill at the port and then I learned that Brent had the same flight as us going to Brisbane! Weird. We sat two rows behind him the whole flight flicking each other every time we walked by to go to the bathroom. The day we landed in Brisbane just happened to be Australia day which is like our 4th of July in the states. So after we hopped on the train and hiked it up to the camper van spot we found out it was closed! Ugggg! ... read more

Ello’ mates, Good afternoon from Perth, Australia!! As I sit in the airport waiting for a plane to Brisbane I anticipate my blog will be filled with improper grammer due to the fact that Australians speak like “spasticks” as they called them also known as a retard haha..its definitely rubbing off on me. They seem to shorten everything as in university is now a uni and board shorts are swimmers or boardies ha..also everything common to me and you is called something different; such as a redneck type person is called a brogen, getting drunk is sometimes reffered to as getting on the piss, how you doing is called a how ye goin’ and a cooler is called an eski. This is our third flight in a week and we’re excited to get to the sunshine ... read more