LA to Sydney to Port Macquarie!

Well this is the first internet cafe Patrick and I have found, sorry for the delays!

We landed just fine in Sydney yesterday at 6am. At the airport, I realized that I didn't print up the itinerary, and just guessed that we were taking off at 11:30. Apparently, I was about an hour and half off. The plane began bording at 9:30 so we were completely late. None the less! We made it to the plane, in our little can-opener seats, and before we knew it, 14 hours passed. Qantas rocked by the way. Patrick's chocolates got us alot of free champagne ...

From the Kingsford Airport we bought a day-pass for $15 that covers all trains, boats and busses for the day. We hopped a train to Central Sydney and found a local hostel, but neither of us was excited to spend $90 & share a room with another couple. We slapped our packs on and took off to Circular Quay on the train to the Rocks, an area of Sydney that's alot like the Old Port but lots of haunted history! We landed in a little bed and breakfast, room 12. From a Haunted Rocks tour we grabbed last night, we learned that room 8 is haunted by a sailor and in the early settling days of Sydney, it used to be a prostitute hotel. Ha! The Rocks is located a short walk from the Opera House & the Sydney Harbour bridge, which Patrick and I trekked across. To climb it was $165, so we passed.

We then grabbed a ferry to Watson Bay, which took us all through Sydney harbor. We're both pretty sunburned! We returned at 5 for a short nap, then took a ghost & beer tour that night. We met alot of people from Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. Everyone loved giving us their little taste of what to see - so Patrick's been great, leading us to the next cool spot.

This morning we checked out of The Russell Bed & Breakfast and grabbed a rental car in the King Cross section of Sydney - an experience that is worse than bungy jumping in my opinion. Not only hvave Patrick and I never driven on the opposite side of the road, but we had to learn dead center in Sydney. My 'passenger air brake' didn't even know which foot to use! I was completely carsick & no help to Patrick. Thankfully, he got the hang of it right away and we took off up the coast.

We're now on Route 1, the Pacific Coast highway and tooling north to Brisbane. We've seen lots of koala signs but haven't seen any hanging from the trees. We stopped at a sweet little winery and picked up our first bottle of sulphite-free wine! Yeahh! The coastal route is lined with little outback farms and is incredibly green. But it's still completly wacked to drive on the other side of the road ...

So we've stopped for the evening at a little motel in Port Macquarie. We had some fish at a little shop and are headed out to the bars in town to scope out the locals. We're soo excited and this has already been a wild two days. We can't wait for more!

Till the next cafe ... :)