Thursday, November 5, 2009
Give me information oh hatter man
Just bought a cell phone today, so now people can call me down here, in the case of an emergency that is. I haven’t set it up yet, I needed to charge the battery first, and I ain’t sure how long that is going to take.   I saw my sister yesterday; she looked good, tired but good.  Oh, and my hostel got a little more crowded than it was last night, because like A whole bus load of young people showed up this morning, tonight should be an interesting  night.  Yesterday’s delirium about this city has retreated with today’s incursion into the city, and with the help of a good night’s sleep.  Today I spent mostly walking through different retail outlets in searching for a prepaid phone, and a grocery store. It turns out that the section of the city I explored was the worst for comparing new and old, old architecture and cold concrete, go figure I hit the most confusing part of the city on a day I should have spent in the hot tub.   The coolest part of today was by far the market, with fruit, clothes, jewelry, and everything else you would want, except information.  I was disappointed though with respect to the hat store I found.  It had lots of different outback hats, all of them really cool, but I was disappointed that I couldn’t get any information about any of them out of this guy.  I wanted to learn why there were so many different models of the outback hat, if they were specific to any region, were different hats worn by specific professions, that is what I wanted to learn, hell, I would have bought a couple of hats if I could have found out their history.  I would have thought that with that many tourists going through the guy would have learned the history of each hat, that way when a tourist tosses one on he could give a short history of it improving the cool factor, it would have worked on me.  I haven’t found my book store yet; I need to find some Australian literature that was recommended in my travel guide.  I will also begin looking for a car today and tomorrow.  I might not be able to pick one up on the weekend, so I need to really look tomorrow.  I would like to leave Sydney by Monday, not that there is nothing left to see, but I will be back here at the end of our trip in order to sell the car, so I need to save some stuff for when I come back.   Well have to run; I need to do some online research.
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