I long ago passed the mark for "most days away from home", that record keeps getting set each day. And I now find myself in a weird in-between place. You can ask a backpacker, "hey how long have you been away from home?"
And there are only two responses that really matter: 1- A REALLY LONG TIME like two years/ever since I left college in 1983 or 2- A REALLY SHORT TIME like 8 days/my plane landed 30 minutes ago. And here I find myself at 5 months. Neither a huge amount of time, or a small one. When people ask me how long I've been abroad... The conversation shifts away from that topic because it goes nowhere.
Enough about that: Australia job wise was mot exactly the land of golden honey that i was lead to believe it was, yet I'm happily employed for NFI(Northern Furniture Installations) and I'm doing heaps of different things. What NFI does- furniture installation for huge office buildings. Big work surfaces. Not as easy as it sounds, the desk tops easily weigh 80lbs and we install heaps (like 75 or more) at a time. Once Paul reads this I'm sure he'll correct my numbers but we're gonna roll with that for now. And with each of those there are cable trays to screw on, electrical wire to attach, and all manner of schananigans to attach the legs(which can be in multiple pieces)... All of which has to be hand carried after being loaded and unloade into a truck. So I'm working out daily, which is a good thing! And I even get paid for it!!
I cannot stress enough how amazing all of my friends here in Brisbane are. If it wasn't for these people I would most likely have moved to a different part of Australia by now. This list includes but is not limited to: Paul, Claire, Andrea, Noa, Em, Brody, Kane, and Katey. The road is not being a lonely place right now, and for that I am hugely faithful.
I am sad to report that I still haven't been camping or backpacking in this country yet. I am still really keen to go but can't seem to line it up right.
Before I leave! I'd like to share something! On the BlogSpot tools for me as the author of this blog I get to see what search words people may have used to get to my blog!! So if someone googles "Steve Crosby New Zealand" my blog would come up and I would know what words they searched to lead them to my site! Recently very many interesting thing have been searched: "hitchhiker Steve" "hitchhiker from New Plymouth" "Abel Tasman Steve". So .... if you met me on the road please email me! I would love to say hi! SteveGoesAbroad@gmail.com
If anyone has any questions please shoot me an email! It always brightens my day when I read an email from back home!
Until next time!
Happy Trails!
Steve
