Travelling ideas
Time. It's a funny thing. 31 Days have passed by now. Or should I say; 31 Days have flown by now. The time goes so fast, it nearly scares me. It's precious time though. Time which I've mainly enjoyed. Enjoyed the weather. Enjoyed the fact that Jemima finally speaks to me instead of starting to scream when I ask her something. Enjoyed the lovely days in the city (no crying children around me, yaaay!). But most of all I enjoy the conversations I have with Claire. She's told me many things about her life now and I can tell you that she's had the most amazing life. Except for the fact that she's now tied to the house 24/7 because she has two children who need to be fed and kept busy and put to bed. But she loves it. I'm sure that one day I'll understand.
Before Claire got children, though, she has traveled the whole world. I think she's seen every single place there is to see. And she started studying when she was 26. 26! For me she's the living proof of my idea that not studying straight after high school doesn't immediately mean your life will be a failure.
Of course I get inspired by those stories. I guess I've known it from the start, I've known it before I left; I would give myself a hard time travelling here, because I wouldn't want to leave again. And that is what's happening now. It doesn't neccessarily mean I'll stay in Australia for a long time, but there are so many things I want to do and so many things I want to see. Where do I start? Well, in Sydney of course, since I'm here.
My backpack-plans are like this for now: at the 8th of March I'll have my last working day at Alex and Claire's house. That's a Friday. I'm hoping to be able to stay with them until Monday, because there is this surf camp that I'd love to go to and that starts every single Monday. So first a week of surfing, then I'll go to family in Melbourne and after that Tasmania. After Tasmania I'll travel back to Melbourne again and from there I want to go to Uluru, a.k.a. Ayer's Rock. And instead of travelling alongside the East coast (what everybody does), I'm going straight up through the middle of Australia to Darwin and then back south alongside the West coast. Sounds good, doesn't it? Yeah, great idea! Oh, wait... 3 months you said? Well, then you'll probably be able to get to Uluru and that's it.
As you see, either I have too little time or too many ideas. So either I change the fact that I have too little time and stay longer, or I let the ideas shrink a bit. A lot. I don't know what to do yet. Luckily I still have enough time to decide. Or maybe not, since the last month has felt like one day. I'll let everything just depend on the moment and do what feels right. A typical Australian lifestyle.