On June 27th, I caught the bus down to Canberra. For all of you that don't know, that's the capital. A friend (and amazing musician) from high school, Ryan Weed, is doing his PhD there in Anti-Matter Physics. While there, I got to watch a Rugby Union match, something that I had never seen live. They also had a party, which was a house warming for Ryan and a celebration of the end of term. Karim (Ryan's roommate) does a pretty… Read More

One day, Chris and I took the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly Park and got lunch at the Bavarian brewery. It was amazing how similar Manly is to surfing/tourist towns you would see all along the US Pacific coast. I wouldn't normally eat meat, but since I was traveling, I decided to try a lot of things that I would not typically. At the brewery, they had a Schnitzel "challenge." If you finished it, you got a free drink, so I… Read More

On the way down to Australia, I read that Australian trees shed their bark and not their leaves like most other trees. Due to that, there is bark everywhere on the ground near trees. It's weird. You can just peel it off the trees. One day, I walked through the Botanical Gardens and came across bats sleeping in the trees. Read More