this & that, stromlo mtn park

we took the lift ride up the black mtn tower, more pics on that later. or check it here.
thats some big lake in the dt.

same great taste, diff bottle.

bad pic, its possum night. they are all over like racoons. rats, or cockroaches.

we went to check out the 2009 worlds courses, the tracks and trails over there at stromlo mtn park

its sandy like phoenix area or mcdowell mtn, doesnt look like a big mtn from afar, but it has 1 track all over, the trees are dead. no forest, its more like riding in a field on a mtn.

7 yrs ago a big fire came and burned the whole place down.

i think we're going back tomorrow, i'll see about gettin better pics.

i forgot to tell the story about eatough, one year about 2002 me and chippo went to the 24 hr worlds in temecula we did the duo team and had a lap lead at midnight then he decides hes blown and im like, we got almost a lap lead lets just keep going, but indoran was cashed in. anyway i kept going for a few more hours in the middle of the night until i was blown. i was creepin along and came up on eatough, he was hatin it, earlier that day this climb was big dog big ring, but he was hangin tough in the granny. throwin up off the side while riding. i told him he was crazy and said keep going. im sure he didnt care, feeling like that during a race is pure agony.

i did a few more 2 man teams after that and was to the point of throwing up, cant eat, no energy, blown and tired. i just quit, that guy keeps going for 24 hrs or 25.

i have to say this is a different kind of sick, not like going hard and throwing up, its like some electrolyte imbalance that happens usually for me after 7 hrs of riding. it makes me not be able to eat or drink. anything forced down comes up, even plain water. its not fun.

like i said hes a machine.

while sager is in pr i called and woke his ass up at 5am, didnt think he would answer the phone but it said "unavailable" on the ID so he was curious.

brad k. in vietnam. wow, anyone else out there jet setting the planet?

words to learn while down under

gyp rock is sheet rock

possums are not skunks or racoons

washing powder, laundry detergent

lolli's is candy

lolli bag is not a halloween candy bag its between the legs

petrol is $5.50 a gallon, so stop bitching about $3

ya petrol, gas, fuel whatever.

at customs they say im on holiday, not xmas or new years. a vacation is the holiday. ok then.

doona is the the feather bed, wow thats way out there

everyone has said bloke 4 or 5 times a day, maybe its like guy or dude or something.

they say it on the news so its formal.

get in the lift, not the elevator.

saw and jaw, anything ending in w sounds like jawr, or sawr. dont know why.

and the final word lesson of the day is al u min i um.

probably heard that one a few times, al yoo min ee um.

this is not culture shock, i like english speaking countries. i will probably only travel to them. i think china, japan, india, that would be culture shock.

living or staying longer than a week in any other place like that would make me crazy. i can barely take england, new zealand and here. where else is there,? canada and south africa.?@?@!?!?!

mexico for 5 days is ok, brush up on some mucho comida words and im fine, frijoles negros con arose is all you need.

time for sleepy