Let me say this, when I walked off the plane in Sydney, I was welcomed with something I missed. Cool fucking temperature. I am talking like amazing 60 degree weather from SF weather. It was amazing and like the most perfect,” good morning” I could ask for.

Have I mentioned why Delta and I are no longer fighting? Well I got on the phone with someone from Delta and told him my plight of the night before (HERE) and not to mention, when I showed up at LAX I found out that they had issued me a middle seat. A middle seat for 14 hours. fuck that. so I called… I brought all I could to the performance. it paid off. Within 20 minutes, I was in Business Class. Have you ever taken business class for 14 hours? Well, neither have I. And truth be told I couldn’t tell you what it was like, since I slept 9 straight hours of that flight. Lovely. Like a handjob burrito.

So when I got to Sydney, I got a call from my buddy Geoff, who I am staying with. He was slurring his words and speaking in what I thought was some strange aboriginal language. Actually he had just gotten off of work and was still completely hammered. Ha.

I am staying in a nice area called Balmine. It’s kind of like Park Slope, really nice and cute with no fast way to get there. It’s like a 20 dollar cab ride and one bus that brings you here.

Sydney is beautiful. It is sort of a mix between San Francisco and London, or Maybe Stockholm. Lots of water, lots of bridges and tons of hills. Tons of seafood too.

I dropped Geoff off and then proceeded downtown, which I later found out isn’t really called downtown but the center city. Semantics…

The Opera House, is as expected, pretty beautiful and stunning, the weather didn’t hurt it either. I did a little video on my phone and if I can I will upload it.

I tried the local energy drink called E or some shit. A picture will be attached eventually. It tasted like green apples and made my ears hurt. I’d try it again.

Then I proceeded to walk all around this city. I swear must have done 5 km. *a little metric joke there. took about 200 pictures.

So far I have had a traditional Australian b’fast which mostly was a traditional English b’fast. Some octopus and fries for lunch. And for dinner some bar good which was called Potato Wedges but it was really just french fries with a sweet chili sauce and sour cream.

things I have noticed..
a. australians are not scared of dumb hats. lots of dumb friggin outback hats.
b. there are a ton of strange birds around. things I don’t even know if they’re birds or not. i have a picture of this huge beaked bird about an inch from my camera. I think he was telling me something.
c. there’s definitely a version of bridge and tunnel in sydney. I have to find out what they’re called.
d. my friend Geoff swears that my “eyes will get sunburned”. maybe he was drunk or maybe things really do work differently down here.

more soon.