Kind of a Low

January 31

Well today we are in Albany sleeping in the car outside of the tourist info, beside 4 other vehicles containing other backpackers. Most of them are French, which is really weird as before albany I think I met like 2 people from France. No Germans though, I am kind of wondering where they are hiding suddenly? Anyway, we said goodbye to the Prongrup today as well as Scott, Die, Adam, and all the other wonderful people I have met there. I like meeting the local people, gives you a better feeling for who they are, what they value, and what there favorite type of beer is. I have to admit that evening I spent playing beach vollyball with the locals was great, the beer and wood fired pizza at the end was the icing on the perverbial cake. Scott and Die though are some of the nicest people I have met in australia. They found us a job, and when they came back from their holliday they sent us in the right direction to look for work.



On my personal note Chris's serious lack of money is really starting to cause some tension between us. He claims to have no money, so we don't go out and do anything, even if it look to be really fun. His policy of refusing to pay for acomidation is begining to bug me as where we sleep, we meet nobody. And the part that really pissed me off today was he spent an hour looking on the internet on my computer looking up info on Asia. I understand he wants to go to asia, but he is restrictig the fun I am having in Australia so he can go to Asia. This has infuriated me to no ends. What I will start to do I think is to do some things on my own, especially if they cost money. If he can't do them, or more specifically if he doesn't want to spend the money on it I don't care. This I think will start to be my new policy.