We'll, you get behind on the posting for a little while and it becomes impossible to catch up. But we've moved on to Australia from the last posting. We recovered some of our diginity by staying in a nice Marriot on the executive lounge courtesy of Karen's hotel points. A week was spent in Melbourne, a most cultured and dignified city. Makes you want to just settle down there, just walking around. But Sydney called, so we hopped in a van with Wiz, an English friend, and headed up the coast to camp illegally on beautiful beaches, play card games, and imagine buying the Toyota Hiace and live out of it on some surf beach like Wiz has done for the last 6 months.

Sydney is great, supported by excellent hostpitality of Karen's Aunt Ronnie and Uncle Geoff, and our New Zealand friend Lara who has put us up, dragged us hiking and surfing, and fed us excellent food. Next ? Perhaps Byron bay, although Sydney is so nice we've considered coming back and spending a month here. The current plan is no plan.