so i have to have internet to play vacation quest australia

So i have to have internet to play vacation quest australia series#

And to Rachel, Fiona, Ben, Nick, Emily, and the other dozen folks I met: thanks for letting me be an honorary Australian for the night, even if I did bail to go home and sleep. One of the most personable, easy going, and entertaining guys I’ve ever met, Rob introduced me to half the population of Sydney and quickly integrated me into his close circle of friends. You know those people who can make you feel like you’ve known them for years after about five minutes? That’s Rob. Although I was feeling under the weather, I decided to make the trek out because he was nice enough to invite me. Randomly seeing a tweet from Rob Hanly who invited me out to a bar with his friends.Unfortunately, there is no such award yet. If there was an award for “got the stink-eye from most Australian young professionals,” I would have won unanimously. Running through downtown Sydney on a workday while wearing a safari hat, cut off t-shirt, basketball shorts, and my Vibram five-finger shoes…surrounded by people in suits and dresses.Thanks Dawsy, I hope your wife and two kids are doing well! Shawn was nice enough to be my welcoming committee, meeting me at the Sydney Opera House and showing me around the city. Meeting up with Shawn, a long time NF rebel and the first man to officially own a Nerd Fitness t-shirt down under.Sure the meals (along with everything else) were comically overpriced, but it’s still a great city with beautiful views, lots to do, and a population that is so much friendlier than any other big city I’ve ever visited. My six days in Sydney were quite enjoyable.

Other than a random nosebleed at 3AM – made infinitely more exciting due to the aforementioned middle seat predicament, my stuffy nose, and zero napkins or tissues within a 30-foot radius – I arrived safely in Sydney at 9AM, eager to take my first steps on a new continent. Well that was quite the tangent, wasn’t it? The fact that you can recognize it means I’m getting better. And yes, I’m playing “Amazing Grace” for the 94th time. To my future roommates/neighbors when I get back to the States in October – no that’s not a hyena exploding, it’s me practicing my bagpipes.

I don’t have decades, but what I lack in experience, musical ability, and general overall talent, I make up for with gallons of blind faith that I will succeed at anything I do no matter how impossible it might be. Unfortunately, the pipes are one of those instruments where you either sound like a dying cat with emphysema, or you sound like an angel after decades of dedication. It also has me wondering how long it would take to learn to play the bagpipes. While flying, I watched Slumdog Millionaire, 127 hours (trippy, but good), Lord of the Rings: Return of the King for the 17th time (which got me fired up for New Zealand), Gladiator (which made me want to visit Rome), and Braveheart (which has me already planning a side trip to Scotland while I’m over in Dublin in August). Overall, my flight with Qantas was actually pretty awesome – I got a chance to fly on their new model double-decker jet, where even the economy seats are pretty swanky. And the reason I was in a middle seat was because I moved my flight UP a week at the last minute, which didn’t cost me an extra dime. I then remembered that the flight was costing me 1/16th of $418. It was a 14.5-hour flight, I had a terrible cold and stuffed up nose, and I had a MIDDLE SEAT. Last Sunday night, I hopped on a plane out of LAX and flew halfway around the world to Sydney, Australia. I have other pictures uploaded to my flickr account, so make sure you check that out as well. WARNING: It is over 3,000 words with lots of pictures – so get comfortable. Don’t worry though, It’ll still have the same Steve Kamb flavor, complete with asinine metaphors and mind-baffling tangents.

So i have to have internet to play vacation quest australia series#

As part of a hopefully recurring series here at Nerd Fitness, I’ll be updating everybody each weekend on where the hell I am and what the hell I’ve been doing while on my 35,000-mile epic adventure around the globe.īecause this is a travel post, it’ll be slightly different than your usual Nerd Fitness article.