Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my past.
Sometimes I just need a break from what’s going on right now. This is when I ask my friend to go to my bookshelf and pull out one of my diaries. We talk about the image that she pulls up. For example, the image above. Now, I had to renew my Australian Visa every six months. I had to leave the country and come back in. My favorite place to go was New Zealand. The above cartoon is from when we were there during deer mating season. I couldn’t get a wink of sleep. The deer were making this howling noise all night long. And it’s not a quiet yell. It’s a howling noise I can’t even describe. Man, that noise could wake the dead! The other thing we loved to do was go horseback riding, but the horses were like programmed. They would just follow the horse in front of them. It was like being on an amusement ride. We always seemed to be in nature. It was pretty cool. So many adventures I’ve had. I’ll tell you a couple.
One time we were camping in North Australia, the rain forest. Our guide sat down and started crying. I went over to him and said, Are you all right mate? He just started crying more. He said he left a compass and map at the other site durning lunch. We were officially lost in the rain forest. Luckily, my friend, this Australian woman, took over. She was no-nonsense. I immediately felt comfortable that we would make it out alive. That is, until we came across three gum trees that fell over. I mean they were huge gum trees. Imagine a 10 story building falling over. Well, that’s what these three trees were like. We managed to climb over the trees, which was very dangerous, and find the trail on the other side. Well, after being covered in leeches and blood, we finally made it out. Imagine us trying to hitchhike down the road. We were covered in mud and blood. We looked like something out of a horror movie, but we were picked up by what I thought was a reincarnation of my grandparents. It was very cool. They gave us a ride all the way back to Sydney. My other friend, Bria, was a respectable banker. One of Australia’s leading bankers. No one would pick him up. He was pissed. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, we all split up into couples so we could get a ride easier. I mean, who’s gonna pick up a gang covered in mud and blood.
OK, I’ll tell you one more outdoors story. My wife, at the time, and I were in northern Australia. We heard there was a great campsite nearby. Rumor had it you would go to a local general store and get a key to camp at this spot by the river and ocean. Well, we got there kind of late and set up our tent in the dark. I kept hearing noises all night. Then I woke up to find out we were camped by a big site for saltwater crocodiles. It’s a good thing I didn’t get up to pee at night.
Anyway, that’s it for now. I’ve got lots of other stories of the wilderness in Australia, Western United States, Brazil, but we’ll save them for later.
Talk to you guys next time. Love, B. Nice