Off to the Southern Hemisphere

 
 
For no particular reason what-so-ever-other-then-we-can, Gregg and I decided to move to Australia for 6 months. We will be living in Melbourne with my friend from college Meagen, her husband Zach, and their friend Rachilde in a house in Northcote. For the past several months, we have been feverishly finishing our house (we got one shower each in our new 6’ x 5’ 6-jet walk-in)...finding a renter for our house, finding a charitable dog-sitter, finishing work projects, creating bank accounts, forwarding mail, etc... The week before we left, we headed out of Salt Lake City, drove to Reno to drop off Phinneas, headed to San Francisco, and finally made it to LAX in an overpriced embarrassingly lame one-way Chevy HHR rental. So now, I sit, here at LAX, very early and very eager to arrive in Fiji. I am trying to focus on my job and getting work done - but travel-blogging is so very addictive (at least at the start of the trip..) and now for the Pre-Trip FAQs Q. How are you affording this? I am a workaholic and I will be remotely working the entirety of the trip. -- What are you doing with your house? It is rented through October for nearly the exact price of our mortgage. __ What did you do with your doggie? Phinneas is in Reno with ‘Uncle Kevin’. ‘nuff said. __ What is something embarrassing you can tell us about yourself? I love that song Africa by Toto. 
info.... TRIP DATES: April 26th, 2009 - Countries Visited on this trip: Fiji New Zealand Australia LINKS: • other travel journals • peakgraphic.com samanthafarbman.smugmug.com Australian Pottery Classes Australian African Drumming FUN AUSTRALIAN WORDS: dummy: child’s pacifier tramping: hiking a fluffy: a hot milk beverage nappies: diapers Mackers: Mac Donalds Biscuits: Cookies Rooting: doing the naughty Fagging (or fagging it up): smoking Esky: A cooler (like a picnic cooler) Long / Short Black: A regular coffee Rock Melon: Canteloupe Action: Protest (as in people in protest) Burger King: Hungry Jacks Heaps - overused word for ‘a lot’
Capsicum - Green Pepper Extra Tasty Cheese - Sharp Cheese
A ‘mo - A moustache
Brekky - Breakfast Whinging - Whining RomCom - Romantic Comedy MovieFIJI.htmlNew_Zealand/New_Zealand.htmlAustralia/Australia.htmlhttp://samanthafarbman.com/journals.htmlhttp://www.peakgraphic.comhttp://samanthafarbman.smugmug.comhttp://carltonartscentre.com.au/http://www.drumming.com.au/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7

Days left until we reach the USA

I can’t wait to see the DOOZE!!!