Alps Day 1 - somewhere in the Alpine National Park, VictoriaSo tired. So sore. It's 7:30pm, pitch black and it's bedtime. The stars are out and plentiful, maybe just as many as there were when I was in Costa Rica…maybe. I don't think I've ever worked, or sweated, or have pushed my body this hard before. Climbing up and down hills, and mountains, with, I don't know, maybe 30-40 pounds on my back, it was a killer. Big Bertha - that's what I named my pack. There...

Day 68 (LaTrobe University) - Bendigo, Victoria Australia It's the little things. I need to get groceries so I have food to cook this weekend. Make a list, plan when the bus is going to arrive, take the bus, walk to the store, and try to find what I need/want. For the life of me I could not find contact solution at Big W (equivalent to Wal-Mart except they don't sell groceries). After spending 20 minutes looking in the personal hygiene section I decided to giv...

Day 49 Back in Bendigo, Victoria Australia I slept so well last night. I just wanted to stay in bed forever. After breaky we went back to our site that we were at yesterday and finished weeding. Weeding didn't take long.I was surprised on how it wasn't that hot out, and being under a canopy I never broke a sweat. We finished in about 30 minutes and went back to the ocean to chill. I tried taking some artsy pictures with my point-and-shoot but I wish I had my S...

Day 48 (Wonthaggi Lifesaving Club) - Cape Paterson Bay Beach, Victoria Australia Agh (sigh). Today was good, and it started early - 4:30am.Got up, finished packing, walked 20 minutes to the Bendigo train station, took the 5:56am train to Melbourne, got in at 7:45am, walked about 6 blocks to the Conservation Volunteers Australia office, got in a van, and drove 2 hours to the small coastal village of Inverloch. There are 5 of us students: Justin - studying abroa...

Day 46 (LaTrobe University) - Bendigo, Victoria Australia The internet sucks here. Plain and simple. I learned that each hall gets a whooping 25gb of bandwidth to use for the month. Split that between 20 people, and it's gone in about 5 days. So then we get phone modem speed for the rest of the month. At that speed it's impossible to get anything done. I go to the library and have to get someone from IT to log me onto the network. Then I have to wait to connec...