Waking Up in Oz

Tonight’s our last night in this shitty hostel. I’m kind of sad to be leaving it. Between the Dutch hookers fighting outside at 4 am, a helicopter circling over us in the middle of the night, and the monkey I’m convinced lives in a tree outside our window, it’s kind of grown on me here. [...]

Holy hell, apartment hunting in Sydney is a nightmare! The horror stories are true. I can’t get over just how different it is here than in the states when it comes to that.
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Here’s how it works. Each property has an inspection time. This is a 15 minute window when EVERYONE interested in that property comes [...]

The latest Aussie food I’ve learned about is chicken salt. That’s right, chicken-flavored salt. It’s most often sprinkled on CHICKEN (for those times when it doesn’t taste enough like chicken), fries and fried seafood. I can’t decide what’s more odd, putting it on chicken or putting it on fish. It’s so common that some restaurants [...]

I’m telling myself it’s OK I find this awesome since the guy didn’t die:
A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.

I’m going to San Francisco for 4th of July weekend. Between a Giants game, seeing Spamalot, and eating unprecedented amounts of In N Out Burger,  I don’t think I’ll make it to San Fran’s biggest tourist trap: Fisherman’s Wharf. Aside from the barking sea lions that hang out on floating docks in the wharf, the [...]