Ode to Australia 11.11.14
When I bought my one way ticket from London to Sydney, little did I know the first person I’d meet is someone with the same birthday as me, we'd drive to Melbourne to become part of the 2013 Totez Melbz Massivz Crew, I'd work on the F1, flail up the coast mixing goon with coke, find my surrogate Australian family on the Central Coast, be escorted out of the desert upon thinking I might get buried in the desert, make it to that fantastic rock and watch oh sooooo many sunsets.
To then be welcomed back to Melbourne by my fantastic friends at the AGPC, bust out another three events “We’re Fuckf,” gaining the nickname ‘Van Damme’ in the Van Damme - Vin Diesel Comedy Roadshow and ‘Fair Doos,’ for the ridiculous amount of times I’ve said that in an office (tally that Loz!)…. All the while, flailing around in my pirate jacket, doing yoga, playing guitar in the park, cycling no handed like an aeroplane down Blessington St, dancing my socks off with Rachel every Sunday at The Branch, becoming a minimal criminal by entering in to an underground Tamagotchi trafficking gang called ‘THE REDS’ (I’m Ninja Red, “I’m not aggressive but I didn’t do three years of Thai boxing…” as the old proverb goes) Have my homie Jon managing the first cafe I ever had a Melbourne cwofee in, and work along side my beautiful beta brain Jenna, rocking it like its 1999 with the Leroy’s crew….. To then finally watch what can only be described as an unprecedented amount of sunsets on St Kilda Beach, which is nothing short of something clinical.
Three months turned in to two years two months, and Australia you have been fan-frigging-tastic!
I’ll never forget the goggley eyed dude on that mad bike, duvets at the beach on Boxing Day in 30 degree heat, the guy in leathers on a horse at the beach in 40 degree heat, 40 degree heat all together…! Dancing with a guy on crutches in a dressing gown, watching my friend’s face as her boyfriend got stripped and set alight by a mad stripper on King St, Ackland St with all its weird and wonderful ways, St Kilda beach and all it’s crazy shenanigans, and the beautiful, BEAUTIFUL people who have transformed this journey in to a ride.
I wholeheartedly love the ‘No Plan’ plan and would recommend it to everyone.
Cue next adventure….
Ps: my sunset spot is now officially up for grabs 😉