12/9/10 Woke up at 5:30 am and showered and got ready for go catch my flight. Everything went pretty smooth and I made it to the airport with plenty of time. I still did not know where I was going to stay yet at in Sydney I had a voucher for a free nights accommodation from a tour package I bought thought I never called to see if they would have anything open for that night I needed. I waited this long I figured I could wait until I arrived in Sydney. The fl...

11/17/10 I had done some laundry last night before I went to bed and while I was waiting for my load to finish in the dryer another guy was down in the room folding and putting away his clothes that had just finished in the dryer. He was an American from Sacramento, CA and his name was Dennis. I am guessing he is around 45 years old or so. I started chatting with him about his travels and it turns out that he was traveling around Australia for a month. He ha...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/16/10 I rose somewhat early this morning much to my surprise and I organized and packed my back and shuffled up some of my stuff since my small day backpack was still wet from the prior day I did not think it was a good idea to keep my electronics and books in a wet back so I packed them up in my regular pack and moved a growing pile of dirty and still wet clothes in a plastic bag within my small pack. I was glad to have eaten th...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/14/10 I woke up around 7am feeling good and rested and I was excited to go and run the same course I had found the prior morning. I was out the door running by 7:15 am and the weather was nice and I had the feeling that today would get even hotter. I ran the course and all was well and then I decided that I should run it one more time in reverse to see the views in the other direction. This being Sunday morning more people see...

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } 11/15/10 I slept in this morning, I did not intend to sleep in so much but it was so peaceful and I was enjoying having a room to myself. I finally did rise by 10 am and ate a quick breakfast and then I was getting ready to go on one of the great hikes in the National Forest. I was about to go and I found out that Reafael was about to go out for a hike as well. I asked her if she wanted to join me on my hike and she did. I to...