Vegitarian Phycologist

April 1

Well it is now officially April, and 27 days remain between me and my arrival on Canadian soil. Actually now that I think about it, I actually have 28 days left, one extra day on the plane, oh I am so not looking forward to the 15.5 hour flight. Anyway I will deal with that in 27 days. Well we dropped Mark off in Alice Springs and headed North with our intrepid French friend Niko. We headed North back to Tennent Creek (where we first deviated from journey to go to Uluru) and saw only 1 really interesting thing on the way back. At this little place of about 4 houses called Aileron. At this place in the middle of the desert are these 2 bigger than life sculptures of an aboriginal man and woman with a child, along with a big sign saying "AILERON". I found this really kind of cool, in the middle of the desert these huge statues of the original aboriginals who roamed this land long before we showed up with our car. I looked at them for quite some time before moving on, I thought that they fit perfectly, you could almost imagine the aboriginals walking along the desert walking with the staffs and children roaming as they had done thousands of years before. Probably the coolist thing I have seen since I left Tennent Creek 3 days earlier. About 200km up the road we hit the Devils Marbles, which also turned out to be a huge dissapointment as we saw about 30 of these types of rock formations between Exmouth and Karajini.We continued on our journey and hit Tennent the next day, where I had to get 4 new bolts for the skid plate because I noticed when I changed the oil last time that they were stripped from overtightening (not by me I might add). Well we turned our car onto a new road and pointed our car East into the Rising sun and headed towards Cairns. We camped in a roadside turnout and headed out early this morning and we crossed into Queensland for the first time. It was a strange feeling that I can't really describe, maybe it was the thought that Easter Friday is in 2 days and I will be spending Easter on the road this year, on the flat plains of Queensland. This place reminds me a lot of Southern Alberta, making me a bit home sick. It also signals the last leg of the journey, as this is our last state we have to go through before we head back into New South Wales, something I both want to end and at the same time continue on. I said it was a hard feeling to express, so if you are confused now, you might be getting about 10% of what is going through my head. It is getting kind of funny though, my dad calls me regularly (which isn't the funny part), but he calls just when I hit cell reception. I will drive three days with nothing, and just as I hit a town (usually I am filling the car with gas at the time) and my phone will ring and there will be dad with his weekly news report from home, which I do love to hear. Of course it is kind of funny that my thoughts have been wandering as of late to what my future direction in life would be. I have been giving serious thought as of late if as to if I really want to go back into land surveying. This thought was building years ago as I sat in my office twiddling my thumbs on my own, alone. One profession that did tweek my intrest was Pycyatry, but since I wasn't even close to be smart enough to become a doctor I threw it out, but it still lingured on. Now thanks to Lena I discovered that Pycology is almost exactly the same with the exception that Phycologists aren't doctors, and you don't need to be a doctor. Suddenly a new road looks open, but before I jump to any conclusions, and before my parents pick up the phone cursing to themselves that they never should have let me go to Australia as they now have a vegitarian Phycologist that might not be home for anouther 4 years, I am just thinking about it right now, don't get your fingers in a knot as you punch in my long phone number. This trip was supposed to be a mould breaking exercise for me. Expecing your next phone call.

Adam