The Wandering Potato

I am not entirely sure if anybody except for grandpa, (hi grandpa!) reads or checks my blog anymore but I woke up with a a lust to write so this ones for you gramps. I have two weeks left in Melbourne and even that is hard to believe. I have grown to really love this city, although i have never considered myself much of city slicker, even if it was for a short 3 months and a half. I will greatly miss the family who i babysit for every other day, and even their hairless cat Neo. I will miss riding the tram every mornings to the cafe for work, watching as the sun comes up over all the houses and skyscrapers. I will miss being surrounded by amazing art everywhere you go, all my now favorite cafes and restaurants, and of course all the beautiful friends I have gotten the pleasure of making. Even with Asia, i mentioned once before that every time i left somewhere i got a sudden surge of anxiety, scared that i didn't see it all or do everything i could have while being there. Even now ...

Everyday i open my cellphone and longingly look at the blogger app knowing full well that i have been avoiding it. It is hard to feel passionate about writing when life has become much more stagnant. The adventure has died down and day to day life isn't as eye opening and my comfort zone is not being pushed, thus resulting in my laziness of blogging. I have just gotten over some sort of weekend sickness, food poisoning or flu i don't know the main cause, but i find when i am stuck in bed all day against my own will I have a surge of motivation and am inspired to do all the things i talk about doing. Like this blog for example, i have taken it upon myself to redo the garden in our back yard, might be a bigger task than i think but i'm determined to make some garden magic happen! The house has been treating us well, our roommates are lovely and the couple we share the house with is adopting a kitten today, she is black with violet eyes. I have taken an arrangement of photos t...

6 days later and we have basically completed the Great Ocean Road, as you can guess it was a road along the ocean and yup, it was pretty great. There are ( and i am not over exaggerating this one) about a 1,000 lookouts along the way, and in the beginning we pulled over to almost every one until we got bored of looking at the ocean and rocks. Amazing view but even ocean and rocks gets a little overdone after awhile. There are a lot of little tourist towns all along the way, and a lot of little gems. When thinking about it, its pretty amazing how every single person has a different experience along it and its a straight road. On our very first day we stopped at a beach where lava met ocean and had created many sea caves that you were able to walk along and under. There were hanging rocks and many little rock pools and a weird type of seaweed lining the rocks that almost feels like bubble wrap against your feet which was fun and felt weird beneath your feet. We were exploring around and ...

Yoshi and I just had the best mini vacation that no money could buy. We left Melbourne and headed to a posh beach town named Mornington, and it was a mini off the map paradise. We ended up spending 4 nights here after only planning one. It was just one of those places that has the power to relax you instantaneously, and catches you in its little web of bliss. On that note we really didn't do much other than take long walks on the beach, nap, swim and eat. Life was pretty damn hard as you can see. We also spent Yoshis 22nd birthday on Phillip Island which was a incredibly beautiful spot. Yoshi said it reminded him more of New Zealand than Australia and I can see how that could be true, it was full of rolling colourful hills and Cliff headed sea walls. Zebra shell I discovered.  The whole beach was lined with yellow sand and these little beach houses. Used by rich people who can't be bothered taking things to and from the beach and have little houses to hold it instea...