The Wandering Potato

Maybe it wasn't needed, maybe it was either way our week long mini vacation has come to an end. We started it off by driving to Newcastle for This That music festival, we spent the day checking out the scenery and swimming in the "ocean pools." When i heard about them i thought it was pretty pathetic, why swim in a man made pool with the same water that is exactly beside it but is the most amazing thing on our planet aka the ocean? But after checking it out i can see how they are much needed, the waves somedays are out of control and is unsafe to swim in, which i hope you can tell just based off these photographs. There was a man who decided to test the limits and hold on the chain for dear life, every-time a wave came crashing it also took him crashing down with it while his girlfriend cheered safely from thesidelines. The Festival its self was incredibly fun, I've never gone to concerts with that big of a group of people and you can do a lot of da...

After a two month search i have finally found a stable job. After Sydney we went to a boring town by the name of Shepparton following the cherry season. Unfortunately for us, its a bad season for cherries, just our luck. We tried it for too days and made maybe 50 bucks, due to a tornado that had passed through the town just before we got there and destroyed the crops. So we went to the harvest job employment centre and the lady who was running a mile minute was at first discouraging, gave us a job chipping weeds in the town over by the name if Echuca. So we left behind the free showers and $6 kebabs which was all Shepparton really had to offer and moved on. Chipping is utterly dull but pays entirely well. You walk up and down 500m rows full of tomato plants and shovel away the weeds, its a great job when you get to talk with the other people and get to know them and the weather conditions are good. But our supervisor changes from time to time and though all are very nice, they have dif...

Well well well, we made it through the horrible chipping weeds phase. It undeniably had its up and downs, some days we worked in almost 40 heat and other days it was so cold we had two hoodies on. Living out of a car while working was extremely testing on ones patience. Waking up at 5 am and heading to work and finish up around 4, showering at the disgusting hostel, and then going to buy food, cook dinner and clean up and go to bed. Repeat that for two weeks and a half and that was our life! But we made some great friends and good money so in the end its worth all the blood, sweat and tears, which i mean literally. I somehow managed to sprain my hand while on the job and got a massive blood blister on my foot from playing shoeless basketball, which Kagome ( The company we worked for) took very seriously and send the head huncho boss to come pop it for me.. company protocol i guess to blow everything out of proportion. Echuca, the town we were working in did not have too much to offer e...

This post is EXTREMELY delayed, but as everybody knows the time seems to speed up unannounced to any of us over the holidays. Although it never did feel like Christmas to me this year around, and i greatly missed friends and family, we still managed to celebrate the holidays in our own way. We got ourselves a hotel for two nights. It may not have been a five star hotel but it sure damn well felt like it after you live in car. Microwave, fridge, a bed that you can lay on all sides of your body in, was an amazing treat. The best treat of all hands down was the air condition, it was a brisk 40-45 degrees in Adelaide over Christmas making our beach plans or any plans at all go down the tube as we spent the day watching the tube instead. I never realized before but Christmas is really different in other country's, they definitely do not have any white Christmas carols here and even the decorations are different (picture kangaroo orientated.)  The dinner was different than my usual tradi...