Amandas been getting mad at me for not posting more to the Rough Guides site so there may be a bit of crossover if you are viewing both sites. I like to put more of the crappy pictures here on the blog when I have some.

Well, we made it to Darwin. Australia's top-end, touristy, tropical destination where their main claim to fame is being bombed to hell and back by the Japenese in WWII. Everywhere you go in Darwin you're sure to pick up a few tidbits of information about the attack. Its nice here and the people try to be friendly though I'm still not sure its entirely the socially acceptable thing to do in Australia. It just may be that people in the tourist industry don't like the tourists. I can understand. We can be stupid about not knowing anything about the place. For the locals, its the center of the universe and they feel slighted if you think its not the best place in the world. Oh well.

I'm actually pretty bored here. We've been trying to figure out the next step in our adventures since we've done all the real sight seeing. We've been trying to find a berth on someone's personal yacht and sail over to Bali or Thailand. Flights to Bali from here are OUTRAGEOUS. We could from home for about the same cost! I know some of you are freaking out about the possibility of riding around on some strangers boat but we're being careful. We'll find out tonight if the one captain were hoping to ride with comes through for us. He's got a 10-11 meter skeg keel sailboat with all the little fancy radars and doo-das. We've met with him and a few of friends and he seems to be a really nice guy. We're looking into taking a few sailing lessons while we wait to ship off. It looks like alot of fun. I'll keep you posted. Pray it works out or we might be stuck here a while! I'd be bored into spending any amount of money to get out of here!

So for now I'm trying to enjoy the rare free internet access in Australia here at the Northern Territory Parliament house library. I'd post some pictures but they are sticklers about the computers here and honestly, there's not much to see in Darwin. So unless you think a picture of an ugly building is cool it may be a little while before I have more to show. I'm not sure that anyone is still out there checking this stuff anymore though. It seems people are tired of hearing about us travelling around. You can still write us emails people! (Except Gramma and Grampa...they write emails!) Write us if you get bored, we'll have something in common.

Post again soon.

Josh