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Dispatch from Down Under
Sep. 4th, 2007 06:56 pmGreetings O Livejournal Associates!
Now that I am no longer staying with my relatives and their family computer which their 7-year-old daughter sometimes uses (really, I love you all, but I'd hate to have her accidentally wander across my friends page on an average day...yeah...), I wanted to drop y'all a line to let you know that I am, indeed alive, made it to my clan, and successfully made contact with the other natives via alphanumeric messages transmitted through an electronic medium I gather is known as a "cellphone." I might add that I have come to quite enjoy said medium, and am sorely tempted to adopt its regular use once I return home. But we shall see.
I might also add that I've kind of fallen in love with the country - which sucks (or blows, as you prefer) since it's so freakin' expensive to get to - but WOW. *waves arms incoherently*
Last week I was in Sydney staying with relatives, and it was wonderful and not at all awkward or weird and it was SO NEAT to see my three cousins I'd never really met. Equally (if not more ;P) importantly was spending a day with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
merihn who was delightful and knows her city far better than she thinks she does *coughandmayhavewrittenmealittleslashontheflyblesshercough*, and an all-too-short 24 hours with veronamay and lemmealone which involved veritable orgies of bookstores, junk food, and filling as many gaps in my pathetically inadequate fan knowledge as possible. I have now officially had a purple nurple \o/, seen Devour (hee!) and House of Wax and the season two gag reel and FINALLY have a face to put to the name "Chad" I'm always hearing bandied about, and been thoroughly educated in associated music and folk. SO. MUCH. FUN. Dude, I don't know how the Aussie fen came to be quite so awesome, but I want to figure it out and COPY IT.
I was enraptured by Sydney itself and the nearby Blue Mountains as well, which I hadn't expected. For me, this trip was about the people, so what a wonderful bonus that the city and temperate rainforest captured me so. (Dude. Trees and cliffs. How did i NOT see that I was going to fall in love with the Blue Mountains? And I was primed to be bored by the Sydney Opera House - I'm not a big fan of touristy stuff - but I just couldn't get enough of it. And the city...well, the city visually reminds me of coastal California in a lot of ways, with pastel buildings and rolling hills and palm trees everwhere, and it's a look I love.)
Yesterday I flew into Alice Springs, which for those of you who don't know is in the centre of the country. I spent the flight GLUED to my window, watching the landscape change from coast to rainforest to grassland to salt pans(looking like gorgeous mother-of-pearl from above; I must post pics) and scrub and red desert. I discovered a few years ago how deeply I love deserts, and this has been no exception, as the some 900 pictures I've taken in the last 24 hours will attest. *g* And tomorrow I'm off to see King's Canyon and the Olgas and Uluru. I'd link 'em but I'm running out of time here, so I'll just say I wish you ALL were here with me, and I'll update again when I can...
Now that I am no longer staying with my relatives and their family computer which their 7-year-old daughter sometimes uses (really, I love you all, but I'd hate to have her accidentally wander across my friends page on an average day...yeah...), I wanted to drop y'all a line to let you know that I am, indeed alive, made it to my clan, and successfully made contact with the other natives via alphanumeric messages transmitted through an electronic medium I gather is known as a "cellphone." I might add that I have come to quite enjoy said medium, and am sorely tempted to adopt its regular use once I return home. But we shall see.
I might also add that I've kind of fallen in love with the country - which sucks (or blows, as you prefer) since it's so freakin' expensive to get to - but WOW. *waves arms incoherently*
Last week I was in Sydney staying with relatives, and it was wonderful and not at all awkward or weird and it was SO NEAT to see my three cousins I'd never really met. Equally (if not more ;P) importantly was spending a day with
merihn who was delightful and knows her city far better than she thinks she does *coughandmayhavewrittenmealittleslashontheflyblesshercough*, and an all-too-short 24 hours with veronamay and lemmealone which involved veritable orgies of bookstores, junk food, and filling as many gaps in my pathetically inadequate fan knowledge as possible. I have now officially had a purple nurple \o/, seen Devour (hee!) and House of Wax and the season two gag reel and FINALLY have a face to put to the name "Chad" I'm always hearing bandied about, and been thoroughly educated in associated music and folk. SO. MUCH. FUN. Dude, I don't know how the Aussie fen came to be quite so awesome, but I want to figure it out and COPY IT.I was enraptured by Sydney itself and the nearby Blue Mountains as well, which I hadn't expected. For me, this trip was about the people, so what a wonderful bonus that the city and temperate rainforest captured me so. (Dude. Trees and cliffs. How did i NOT see that I was going to fall in love with the Blue Mountains? And I was primed to be bored by the Sydney Opera House - I'm not a big fan of touristy stuff - but I just couldn't get enough of it. And the city...well, the city visually reminds me of coastal California in a lot of ways, with pastel buildings and rolling hills and palm trees everwhere, and it's a look I love.)
Yesterday I flew into Alice Springs, which for those of you who don't know is in the centre of the country. I spent the flight GLUED to my window, watching the landscape change from coast to rainforest to grassland to salt pans(looking like gorgeous mother-of-pearl from above; I must post pics) and scrub and red desert. I discovered a few years ago how deeply I love deserts, and this has been no exception, as the some 900 pictures I've taken in the last 24 hours will attest. *g* And tomorrow I'm off to see King's Canyon and the Olgas and Uluru. I'd link 'em but I'm running out of time here, so I'll just say I wish you ALL were here with me, and I'll update again when I can...
