I've had a great time these last few days. I stayed with Gina and Reuben for the first several nights that I was here and enjoyed every minute of it. On Sunday they invited me to spend an early Christmas with their family. They were celebrating it earlier because they wanted to get away from the commercial side to Christmas and then spend the 25th in retirement homes visiting older people who didn't have families to visit on their own. As you can probably tell these are great people. They were wonderful to share their family day with them. And yes, Dad, I got another family picture of us all:) I'll try posting it another time if I have the chance.
Last night I slept on another CouchSurfer's floor. "Puckey" had me over to his house for the evening where I met him and two of his roomates. Puckey is heading on his own round-the-world trip just after Christmas so we swapped tips for awhile.
Right now it's almost 11am and super hot (as always) outside. I'm about to try and make my way to Nimbin, NSW to meet up with another friendly CouchSurfer who's invited me to come by. Since it's still relatively early and Nimbin isn't very far I'm going to give hitching a go first. Let's just hope the hitching is good and I don't wait all day in vain in the sun, trek back into town, and STILL end up buying a bus or whatever ticket to get there:)
Posted December 13, 2004 06:35 PM @ (GMT - 6)
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glad your there safe and with good people. will miss you much at christmas! love you...