a 3 month past due update

Woah...A lot has happened in three months. We went biking is some great areas and saw some amazing things. We journeyed the entire coast of Australia from West of Melbourne all the way to Cairns. We stopped for 6 weeks in Byron Bay...Meyranie had some work there for a bit and I bummed around and hung out with the crew from True Wheel Cycles in Mullumbimby...What a crew. I developed an addiction to Retro Mountain bikes...picked up a '90's circa Shogun. Got it all pimped for bicycle touring and some light duty mountain biking. I love it...it reminds me of being 12 again and tinkering in my dads garage for hours trying to get my cantilever brakes dialed in perfectly and polishing my bike with WD-40...boy you could make it shine!

Now we are in Cairns and plannin on sticking out the rest of our time in OZ here before we head to New Zealand. There is lots to do here; Check out Crocs on the Daintree, Snorkelin out at the Great Barrier Reef, Biking in the Atherton tablelands and around Cairns and just chillin and enjoying the perfect weather. This is definatley the warmest winter I have ever experience...hotter than arizona.

I have tons of pics categorized by month up on facebook so go check-check it:

Australia Oct 2008
Australia Nov 2008
Australia Dec 2008
Australia Jan 2009
Australia Feb 2009
Australia Mar 2009
Australia Apr 2009
Australia May 2009

The Cairns Mountain bike scene is pretty awesome. There is heaps of riding to do and always someone willing to go shred. I have an awesome lil downhill trail very close to my house, good urban rides on the commuter bike, crew that XC rides 6am tues and fri and a LONG ass shuttle-able DH track about 10mins drive from my house.

Also there are cool XC endurance races every month for the next 3 or 4 months. So good times abound in Australia.

COMMENCE RANTING - Now if everyone would get over the LOCAL SCHMOKEL crap I would be stoked. Seriously Australia, Canada employ's nearly half of the 18-22 year old Australian population in Whistler alone...your country is what it is because of tourism. If I read one more add in the newspaper or here someone else say "we only employ locals" I am gonna go POSTAL on that person. I have no time for the local attitude...no one is local...that is an illusion. Get yer head out of your ass...like anyone is gonna stay longer than 6 months at any of the shitty businesses around here anyway!! woah...okay...enough of that. I had a moment there. its over now and probably wont happen again so dont judge me based solely on that rant.

aight
Peace