First Day in Honduras

A quick layover in Fort Lauderdale and off to San Pedro Sula. I arrived at the airport last night at around 1 AM to be picked up by a guy from the hostel. I finally made it into the country. After about a 20 minute ride I made it to the hostel where I was staying.

This is what $15/night gets you in San Pedro Sula:

100 Mile Bike Ride to Montauk

New Years in Sydney!

Happy New Year!!

Weekend in San Francisco

After some delay we have made our way back to Australia and decided to book a layover in San Francisco for the weekend to visit some friends and see some sights. Here are some pictures from our trip.

Indoor Skydiving

Indoor Skydiving
Nashua, NH, USA

Sydney to New York

After about two months in Sydney I have decided to come back to the US for two weeks to celebrate my brother's wedding. After the wedding we will be taking a mini road trip up north and visiting some friends in NYC, Rhode Island, Boston, and Albany and then back home for our return flight to Sydney.

Sunday Fun Day! (5)

Manly Beach!

Today we took the ferry to Manly Beach and climbed up some rocks to see some great views of the area.

Sunday Fun Day! (4)

Blue Mountains

This week we decided to take the two hour train ride up to the blue mountains for some amazing views and good hiking. What started as a casual hike across the mountain ended up being a six hour adventure where we got to see the three sisters and an amazing waterfall. The hike started at the top of the mountain and when we got to the three sisters we stopped to have a picnic consisting of veggie burgers, chips, carrots, and some PB & J. After lunch we climbed down some very steep stairs for about a half hour and ended up at the bottom of the mountain where we got to see the waterfall from the other view point at the bottom. We then circle back at the bottom till we found another set of stairs which took us back to the top of the mountain. After a steep hard climb we made it back to top and celebrated with some milkshakes at the local cafe and then made our way home.

Sunday Fun Day! (3)

Last Sunday Fun Day we decided to buy a bunch of boomerangs and learn how to throw them at the park. After about 20 minutes of some good attempts and one broken boomerang we were kicked out of the park by some local park rangers. Apparently throwing boomerangs in Australia at your local park is not allowed. Although we will be attempting to improve our boomeranging abilities in the future cause it sure does make for a good Sunday fun day.

Amazing Views and Cockatoos!

Today we went to a park called the Botanical Gardens to go feed the Cockatoos. We went there to find a herd of them flying around and jumping on people while we fed them bread. Afterwards we continue to walk around the gardens to see an amazing view of the Harbor Bridge and Opera House.

Sunday Fun Day! (2)

It's been almost a week now since our last "Sunday Fun Day" but I figured I write a quick post now that I have some free time.

So for our last Sunday Fun Day we decided to go to Featherdale National Park where we got to pet Koala Bears and feed Kangaroos. It was only an hour trip up there and when we arrived we were welcomed by Wallabies hopping around and Emus hanging out. When we got into the next section of the park that is when we saw the Koala Bears who may have become my new favorite animal. They were just hanging out and sleeping in tree branches.

There was hanging out on a branch outside that we got to pet and take pictures with. After that it was off to the Kangaroos who were just lying around with the Emus. We hung out with them for a bit and fed them some food and walked around some more to hang out with some goats, wombats, tazmanian devils, and crocodiles.

Overall it was another great Sunday Fun Day ... Enjoy the pictures!

Last day at AMI

After two weeks of working at Advanced Medical Institute I have decided to move on. Its been a fun two weeks of booking people for Heart Checks but I'm moving to another company called, News Community Media, where I will now be making $20/hr to set business owners up to go to seminars for an hr. Hopefully its just as fun and there are some good bonuses to be made.

Sunday Funday!

We decided every Sunday in Australia that we are no longer going to be lazy and instead find a random activity to do. This week we went indoor rock climbing at one of the biggest rock climbing gyms in Australia. Here are some pics from our day of fun.

Random Pics from Sydney

Life in Sydney

We have been in Sydney for a little over two weeks and in that time we have accomplished a lot. After staying in a hostel for almost a week and a half we found a great place to live thats only a couple blocks away. We have a nice size room in an international house consisting of people from Scotland, Canada, Belgium, and Australia with two more people moving in in the next couple of weeks as the people who use to live here look for new people to take there place. Rent is not too bad here. We are paying about $600/month each.

Also we have successfully interviewed and got a job working at a call center. Life here is much more expensive but they also pay a lot more. For our first job in Sydney we are making $18.50/hr plus commission to set people up for appointments to get there Heart Check. We have also applied and received are Tax File ID Number and set up a Bank Account at a local bank called NAB so we will be able to get paid as well.

Today we finally figured out how to get internet set up. Apparently none of the houses here have internet so we bought a wireless modem that allows us to access the internet from anywhere so Ill be able to update this blog more frequently and post pictures again.

So far life in Sydney has been pretty great overall though with lots of backpackers hanging around this area there's something to do every night. Tomorrow we are going rock climbing with the roommates as part of what will hopefully become the start of a new tradition called "Sunday Funday" where we will try to do something random and new each week.

Welcome to Sydney!

After a 9 hour flight from Phuket we have made it to Sydney.

To get our journey started here we have booked a hostel while we look for a more permanent residence. The hostel we are staying at is called D.Lux and is located in the center of Kings Cross. Since its the off season we got a deal where we are only paying $40 a night between the two of us. We decided we are just going to stay here until we find something better.

We have only been here a couple days now and have a potential apartment which is down the block for only $290/week. Its a 3 bedroom apartment which currently has one Aussie living there and a guy from Spain who will be moving in. We also have 3 interviews lined up so hopefully will be making some money soon so we can continue the adventures.

Its only been a couple days now but we have managed to make it to the famous Opera House in Sydney and we got to see the Harbour Bridge which apparently you can climb the top of it for $300. We plan on giving it a try after we have been working a couple weeks and have some more money saved up.

Final Days in Thailand

After spending an amazing week in Ko Phi Phi we have made our way back to Patong Beach. It was a great boat ride back where due to thunderstorms the boat was rocking an incredible amount and everyone was given throw up bags. Lucky for us we took some motion sickness pills before the start of the trip to see about an hr in the ride everyone else was throwing up. We ended up falling sleep about half way and woke up to make it safely back to Patong without any sea sickness.

The next day we decided to book a trip to go Elephant trekking because who doesn't want ride an Elephant at least once in their life. As part of our package we got to see some interesting things. We started with a snake show where I guy was playing with cobras and other poisonous snakes and giving them kisses. We then saw one of the Biggest Buddhas in southeast Asia which was really cool. We then got to go Elephant trekking where at first a guy was on the front of the Elephant and we were both sitting on a lil bench set up on the Elephants back but once we got a lil further along the trek we got to take turns riding the head of the Elephant it was really cool. Finally we went to a monkey show where we got to see monkeys grab coconuts from trees and one that would retrieve items from the bottom of the pool which amazed me cause I never knew monkeys could swim.

With only a day left in Thailand we are beginning to pack and get ready for our new adventures the lay ahead in the land down under.

Rock Climbing in Ko Phi Phi

Today is our final full day in Ko Phi Phi and the last time we will be hanging out with our two English mates Mike and Tom before we head back to Phuket and they go off to Krabi. So we decided to have one last adventure day together where we all went rock climbing. We got to the shop and after getting all geared up with our harnesses and rock climbing shoes we were off to the mountain.

After about a 10 minute walk we were approaching the base of the mountain and as we were walking along the beach we noticed a couple of monkeys hanging around. It was all good fun and we were having a good time continuing are walk up to the base of the mountain when one of the monkeys spotted the fruit in a bag Mike was holding and proceeded to fiercely approach him and attack the bag of fruit and go after Mike at the same time. Mike held his ground and brush the monkey away after a minute keeping most our fruit in tack. Once we got to the base of the mountain more monkeys were approaching so we just threw rocks at them and bang sticks together to keep them away.

We then proceed to climb 3 different routes of the cliff which had some unbelievable views at the top of them. Lauren for her first time climbing made it all the way to the top off second cliff. We were all very proud of her. After climbing the third cliff we realized it was starting to get kind of late and we decided to head back to grab some dinner. Not a bad final day on the island.

Monkey Beach

Today we woke up and go on an adventure of the island where you hop on a little boat and drive around to different beaches. The first beach we went to was a beach called Monkey Beach where little Monkeys were everywhere on this secluded beach. You saw everything from Monkeys drinking Pepsi and eating Coconuts. The Monkeys were unbelievable to look at it until they decided to start charging at you they like were going to attack you.

Fortunately we did not get attacked while we there but we did get a couple baby monkeys coming up and grabbing on to our shorts. Finally as we were walking off the island we did see a cool big sign that said "Beware Monkeys" and it had a picture of the Evil Monkey from Family Guy.

After that we continued our trip and went to some unbelievable beaches where we did some snorkeling and saw some amazing fish. As we were heading to the final beach a storm had hit out of no where which made for an interesting boat ride where we were all getting completely soaked as the rain started to come down real hard and began to feel like hail. As a result of the rain we couldn't take the boat to the final beach and had to swim from the boat to the back of the island by going through some sketchy rocks. The final beach we were going to was Maya Bay which is the famous beach from the movie "The Beach" so it only made sense that it was a challenge to get to. So after swimming over some shallow water with some pointing rocks and walking our way through the back of the island we finally made it to the beach with scratches and cuts on our feet.

It was all worth it though to be standing at what was probably one of the nicest beaches I have ever been to.

Reggae Bar = Muay Thai Fight

So after an amazing day with some great views we decided to make our way to a Reggae Bar where we heard there was Muay Thai fights. Once we got there we had ordered a couple buckets (Thai liquor and soda with ice) at the bar. We were enjoying watching a couple of Thai guys go at it when we saw a sign that said get in the ring and receive a free bucket.

The way it works is two random westerners would get in the ring and fight each other in a Muay Thai style fight for three rounds consisting of a minute each. I thought this sounded like fun so I decided to do jump into the ring and ended up having my first random Muay Thai fight and what led to be a very exciting 3 rounds of people yelling and cheering at me.

In the end I received a free bucket and got to have another random experience in Thailand.