Sunshine Coast?????

We have been in our new van for almost a week and haven't really had any good weather yet. Kinda bummed but we are still seeing the east coast and moving along. We get a decent day here and there but usually it's it's overcast and rainy. This is not what we expected of australia in the middle of summer. We are of course still having an awesome time and are really excited to get to asia. We have all of our flights and tours booked, almost, except our ticket out of asia. We are unsure of where we will go next, possibly to Perth for work or Adelaide. Most likely we will set up in Perth for a while and get jobs and earn some money. We have certainly spent enough.
We are in a little beach town called Coolum right now, and about half way to Cairns. We are begging for some hot weather and I think the further north we go the better chance we have to get it. Either way we will be in Bali in about a week so there had better be good weather there or we will just give up and go home. Jokes

Upwards down under

We have started our northerly voyage in the land down under. We are now in Sydney, a beautiful city but we both still preferred melbourne alot. I guess it could be because our hostel is in the middle of smelly china town or the two days of rain we had. The weather is looking up, today we went to the harbour bridge and the opera house and tomorrow we are going to bondi beach, the nude section hopefully. Can't wait to get back in the sun. Our flight to asia are booked but for now we are concentrating on our path to cairns. I will try to keep the posts coming but our access to the internet is shady. We have started to frequent the local mac D's because they all have free internet but sometimes we feel like we have overstayed our welcome.(three hours and one 50 cent ice cream later) haha, o well. I will keep you updated!!!

days and nights in Melbourne

We have been in melbourne for three days now and it is an awesome city. We are in central downtown at our hostel. We have been busy everyday looking around and trying to get a vehicle.   We went out to a bar last night and partied with some mangled aussies, lotsa fun. We went and met a korean couple today to look at their car. I hope we get it, but i dunno yet. The price of renting is crazy so we would be way better off just buying. Then after the test drive we were back in the hostel and started talking to a guy form toronto and he told us he was a street preformer, so we went and watched his show. Its was cool, he rode a ten foot unicycle, juggled fire and chain saws, and was very entertaining. Then we wandered down the yarra river to find a huge festival called the moomba festival. Kinda like a giant carnival, but with a water ski-jump competition, and fire works, and ten times bigger than any other fair/ carnival i've ever seen. All in all a great day, but the city is quite expensive and we are looking to get out pretty soon, with or without a car. i'll keep you posted, ciao

life in the van

So we have left out surf tour and picked up our van. We are living out of this thing for the next two weeks and it's pretty cool. The outside is painted all trippy and colorful. The gas here is basically the same price as back home after you do the conversion, so pretty expensive. Driving on the left hand side was tough to get used to at first and there are some weird rules here too. Auckland was the worst though, we almost got in an accident 3 mins after we picked up our van haha. O well we are two or so hours away from there now in a town called paihia, in the area called the Bay of Islands. It's awesome here, but i guess i'm just happy to be out of the city. I just way prefer to be out in the land.
It seems everytime we move somewhere new, there is a little adjustment time where it's a little uneasy getting settled but once you find your rhythm its comfortable again. I guess im just getting used to being on the road.
We are on our way north, probably to the very northern tip of NZ. We were originally planning on going to the south island, including Christchurch but that is not going to happen now. Its starting to sound like it's going to be the worst disaster NZ has ever seen in terms of death toll. The main problem is that the epicenter of the quake was right in the CBD or central business district. It even took out the tallest building in Christchurch, though it hasn't fallen yet, it defiantly will be knocked over. We were lucky though.
The people we have met so far have all been awesome possum. Local or travellers they all are in the same state of mind. Chelsey and i said it's alot like going to B.C in the summer time near a lake or something. Every town has a ton of hostels, motels, campgrounds and beaches. It's endless summer here and there's always someone to talk too or have a drink with. Anyway another update will come soon. So long

Surfing Everyday

Holy shit surfing takes alot out of you, especially when you go twice a day for a few hours each time. It's amazing though, the people are awesome and the beaches are unreal. In the house there are people from japan, scotland, holland, alaska, germany and new zealand, so we are a pretty diverse mix. All we do is eat surf, drink and sleep. We are on the most southerly point of a place called ninety mile beach, and yes the name says it all. Anyway it's lunch now so i had better go get some.

Leaving Auckland

We are about to leave to Ahipara this morning. It will be nice to get out of the city and into the country. We got totally sunburnt yesterday so the surf tour may be a little rough at first. The first thing chelsey and i noticed when we got to auckland was that it seriously had as many asians as hongcouver. I guess we just weren't expecting that haha. Our hostel room here is ok just small and boring, but thats ok as we spent all of our time walking around the city. We went swimming in the ocean yesterday at mission bay which was awesome but then the sun got to be too much for our northern skin. I guess a 50 degree tempreture swing is too much for us. Now we just have to pack and we are off to the pick up point for the surf tour. Hopefully they have free WiFi so i can do a bit more on the blog.

I hate transit time...

Here we are stuck in the Van airport for a couple hours then we are off to LA, five hours there, then Fiji, five hours there, then Auckland. Twenty eight hours total transit time, fluck. O well the final destination will be worth it. Also the we got the flights for 800 bucks, which is a steal of a deal thats the main reason we have such long lay overs. We start our awesome surf tour on the 14th and after that we have a camper van rented so we can explore the whole country. EXCITED....