This is Entry 107: Vacation!

Buying bread from a man in Brussels / He was six-foot-four and full of muscles / I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich / And he said, / "I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover."

Now you may ask did I just post a few lines from the seminal classic "Down Under" by the band Men at Work? Well, On Sept. 13th I do something I've never done before: I leave the North American Continent! Where do I leave to? Australia & New Zealand!

Yes, you reads that correctly: I am going Down Under! For a month! I'll be seeing the sights, tasting the local cuisine & other touristy stuff. Now you may ask where I'm going? Everywhere! We start on one side of Australia & go to the other side. I cross the country/continent from Top to Bottom (on a Train!) Once we've (I'm going with My Parents) traveled all over that great land we go to New Zealand to see all it has to offer.

While Down Under, there a few things I personally want to do which might be slightly geeky/odd:
1. Go to an Australian Comic Book Store & buy some Australian, not found in the U.S., Comics.
2. Go to a Grocery Store & just wonder around to see what it's like. What's the same, what's different, etc.
2a. Find Vegemite & see what it is. Not necessary buy some to eat (I hear it tastes nasty) but at least find some to see what it is.

That's not all I want to do. There are other things but most of them are going to be covered by the Tour it's self (Go to Ayers Rock, see Kolas, Kangaroos, Tasmanian Devils, etc.)

Traveling to Australia is a kind of interesting: Yes, It's on a plane but that isn't the interesting part, traveling over the International Dateline is! I leave the U.S. late at night (11 pm) on Sunday the 13th & when I touch down in Australia 13 hours later it's early (6 am) on Tuesday 15th! When I come back I don't loose another day but appear to travel back in time. I leave Australia mid morning (11 am) on Tuesday & travel 13th hours back to the U.S. I touch down it's early morning (6 am) on the same day.

While I'm down there I'm going to attempt to post here on MyBlog at least once, giving you all an update on what I'm up to. If I can figure out how to post pictures from there I'll attempt that.

Until next we meet here: Stay Jazzy!

-Brian,
World/Time Traveller.