Byron and Allie

We’ve been living and making some money so we can venture on soon ☺ I still work at the marina making coffees and what not. I make so many I think about them in my sleep. Long black, cappuccino, latte, flat white, short black, macchiato, moccachino, muggachino, baby chino, hot chocolate, chai latte, extra hot, soy, skim, no foam, double shot, weak, caramel, cold milk on the side. There are a gazillion options I’m telling you! These people are serious about their coffee! But I am very glad to have the experience so I can get a job making coffees at other places! I work from 6:30 am to 2:30pm 5 days a week and I get 1 coffee and a free lunch everyday ☺ But I am very glad that I will be leaving ... read more

We stayed in Noosa for a bit, it was a busy town (especially on the weekends!) Byron counted over 50 people in the water at one point when we were out surfing!! (there was probably about 7 different points!) We went on a hike by the water there and got to spot some koalas! We also saw 2 snakes!! I jumped and screamed and deafened myself at the sight of both of them! I had never seen a wild snake on land before, not even a gardner snake!! One of the nights we decided to contact a lady on couchsurfing and we were able to park our van outside of their house for a night, they had another couchsurfer for Canada at their house at the time and they cooked a great meal for us all, ... read more

Bluesfest (Easter long weekend): Bluesfest was out of this world awesome!! Except for the fact that volunteering meant we had to work for 5 hours each day! We got meal tickets and a t-shirt so that was a bonus. We saw Jack Johnson, Fat Freddys Drop, Tijuana Cartel, Donovan Frankenruiter, A.L.O. Animal Liberation Orchestra (check them out if you can download music or on Pandora), John Butler Trio, and much more!! We met some really cool people. One lady and her sister and husband and son who we are hopefully going to go and stay with later in the year - they were some true ozzies and they got us onto saying “totes” as in totally. It’s a long belly-achingly funny story. For the next week and a half we stayed in Byron Bay. We would ... read more

Hi guys!!! a bundle of new pics for ya!! This past weekend we went up to a spot called Daylesford, apparently its some sort of hippie nice little small town and common weekend get away for a lot of melbournians and well we didnt find too much to do there but camp and relax and it was perfect!!! we were told there were hot springs and water falls. However, the natural springs were all cold ones and the 'hot springs' you could go to were like spas/bathhouses that cost oodles more than our pocket books would have preferred. So we chose and free and secluded camp site and had a roaring fire and enjoying a whole lot of happiness together :) Amanda, Becky, and one of our Australian friends, Adam come along with us and we ... read more

Hi all Byron here, im finally in Australia or as they say "Straya" its so beautiful and warm Allie and I have already found a van to travel in and or picking it up on monday. Also work is fairly easy to find and have found work at some fun festivals around Melbourne. The travels to Aussie where amazing. Seattle/Bellingham is so nice and lush i cant wait to go back and visit. it a place that i would love to spend more time in. I was able to visit with long time friends Daisy, Sunny, Charles and their kids. We did some hiking and then Gary, Sunnys husband cooked an amazing grilled fresh salmon dinner with chicken kabobs...hmmm yum. the visit was short and sweet and i wish i could have stayed longer but on ... read more