We arrived into Sydney from Melbourne feeling refreshed and excited to see the Sydney crew for what was sure to be a BIG week. Night number one was spent at Rachel and Liam's place in Epping after a fun night out in Newton with those two. The next day, Sunday, we headed out to the beach to rendezvous with Team Bondi for what would be the first of many events in the lead up to the big event, the catalyst for the entire trip to Australia, Billy and Rachel's weddi...

Damn it's good to be HOME!! Wait, did I just say that about Melbourne?!? Well, I can say it really felt like home when we landed at Tullamarine Airport. Aside from that our arrival here is noteworthy as it means we've now officially traveled around the world since we technically started this trip on the rainy morning of May 24, 2011 with a departure from this very airport headed for SFO. Our homie Oliver picked us up and whisked us to the Lord Street house wher...

We arrived back into Bali from Dili without incident except for getting shook down for the cost of a brand new 30 day Tourist Visa despite the fact that we were only passing through for 24 hours before catching our flight out to Aus. We tried to buy the "transit visa" that does exist, but costs the same $25 as the 30 day tourist visa making it entirely pointless. We were irritated when we forked over the $50 for us to enter for 24 hours, but at this point, after...

Getting to Dili is a challenge. Getting around in Dili is a challenge, and finding ways to keep yourself busy when it rains incessantly for three days in Dili is a REAL challenge. We flew out of Denpasar around 12:30 in the afternoon on a Monday. After hours of Internet scouring, several intensely frustrating skype calls, and a couple trips to dodgy tour companies, a special trip to the Bali airport sales desk, we came to the realization that we would have to fo...

The decision to forgo the Lombok to East Timor boat crossing was pretty much made for us by a combination of crappy weather and straight up traveler fatigue. We thus made our way back to Bali by means of a wild boat crossing and found ourselves at Padangbai on Bali's East Coast for a night before getting back to Denpasar to deal with purchasing East Timor tickets. We found ourselves in the notorious Kuta/Legian/Seminyak corridor of Bali with 3 days to kill -and ...