Australia: 2008.

Yeah come to Oz. Airfares or car hire even are cheap enough once you get here and there's always people driving around/putting people up. eg You can stay with us if you make it to Bris. We have a deck, a pool, plenty of practice space and generally there's a spare bed or three.

I have a bed in Sydney for you for a couple of nights, at least

The Autralian dollar has lost about 20% of its strength against the US dollar in the last couple of weeks. It's a pretty good time to travel here exchange-rate wise

well - ive just agreed to head to south africa for a project for a couple of months. In terms of relative risk of visiting countries - i think your neck of the woods will be a walk in the park.

im still pencilling in burning man next year.

D.

So the news is the following. On discussing with my mother (of all people) she has told me that I should go to Australia and that she'll fund it.

So I'll be doing it on the cheap, and I'll need places to stay. The tickets to Aus are free, thanks to FF miles and I have a really good deal on some intra-Aus flights.

So here are my tentative dates

*Nov 2: leave SF
*Nov 4-5: Sydney (essentially an overnight layover to let me sleep and shower after a rather traumatic 14h flight on United Airlines)
*Nov 5-6: Christchurch
*Nov 7-17: Melbourne
*Nov 17-24: Adelade
*Nov 24-27: Perth
*Nov 27-Dec 3: Brisbane
*Dec 3-7: Sydney
*Dec 7: Arrive San Francisco

Who am I staying with?

Me!

But if u decide to spend more time in one spot and leave perth out we will cry lots but understand

I wanted to bags you Doc... but I have to OK it with Jedly and Mikey.

I would offer you to stay at mine. But unfortunately I live 2 hours away from Melbourne. But I'm sure some other HoPper lovelies will offer

I'll have to make the trip up to a Sunday spinning meet or something to catch up with you

ME!!!!!

I'm in a trendy suburb of Melbourne!! And I have awesome parents who can take you to see the Great Ocean Road in their car which is a GORGEOUS trip from here!

um Nat..Ive already offered you guys as a childfree dogfree chaos free possible option....lol

I talked to Jed about it ages ago when Doc talked about coming out

Doc you are welcome to stay with us at our place! We live a bit out of the way, but its a beautiful place!

I would probably suggest that because we are hectic people during the week (go to work at 7am get home at 8-9pm), that you come stay with us on the weekend eg friday to monday! - we can host a Barbie/miniDoof for you too and get all the Adel HOP people to attend*

as well as go to the beach for a fire spinning party on the Friday night if the weather is good.

so yeah - lots of fun!

Josh

*slackers will not be honoured

Are you KIDDING? I'm going to Perth to meet you, Gnor. You are one of the reasons I'm going. So unless you (and a few other people, including Nat) all decide to meet me somewhere else at the same time, I'm going to Perth. That and I need a photo of me with a wombat in my lap.



Right. Might take you up on it. Let's see how I do with the dogs and kids. Although such an environment usually suits me. I love families.




Are you sure you can handle all that losing? I don't want to really impose on people in Melbourne, so I'll probably crash Petey's place for a few days, then yours for a few days, and then perhaps spend the weekend with Josh because a mini-doof sounds like a fantastic way to end a week in Adelade.



Roarfire, you are another person on the "must-meet" list. Now, if you DON'T show up, so help me, I will rent a car (I have an international DL), drive to you, and personally kick your butt. Kill Bill style. Don't make me.

So, can we now help me amass a list of HoPers who live where?

So far:
Melbourne
Petey
Roarfire
Rougie (who just lost)

Adelade
Josh
Katinca

Perth
Gnor
Nat

Brisbane
Arsn & Valura
Dentrassi

Sydney
Bender
Flash Fire (of cone bra fame...and no, honey, you aren't living it down)

Right. Feel free to add away.

And feel free to PM me your phone numbers.

Dude, that makes NO sense!

Hey Babe,

I believe Bender is a Melbournite, unless he has made a very swift move that I am not aware of.

For Sydney you can add me, but I think Brainstorma would be the one most sorry to miss out on you.

There are a lot of others in Sydney who are not regular "hop-heads". I would get in touch with Brainstorma to see what spinning events are happening, maybe get in touch with CircusSoc at UNSW too. And there is Newtown juggling on Wednesdays.

Additional: keyarghah is from UNSW and is around on HoP. Very friendly person who I am sure would love to hear from you.

Perth is home to Mr_Jedly, Circus-midget, Hana (Dexta) and Angus (Rubbergoose) who recently got married at Burning Man... Geo (though he's a geologist so he may not be around Perth...).

Help me out here Gnor.. Who else HOPs?

*I feel all warm and fuzzy*
We will have a barbie for Doc as well. Im happy for us all to share in the love of the doc and would love another mass wombattage if possible.
Jorja and Coln are on here as is Poxe. Fi comes on sometimes as well. You me and Mike only semiregulars.
IM excited enough about Mike coming that I will stop playing wow for a few days in November!
Can u be in Perth Nat?

(How do I do smileys???)

Keylargah is a good one to meet Mike as well as the lovely old school ones. She is a honey

No Ben in Adelaide!?!?!?

Ben come on HOP!

Melbourne
Petey
Roarfire
Rougie (who just lost)
Bender

Adelade
Josh
Katinca

Perth
Gnor
Nat

Brisbane
Arsn & Valura
Dentrassi

Sydney
Flash Fire (of cone bra fame...and no, honey, you aren't living it down)
Brainstorma
Rozi


And feel free to PM me your phone numbers.


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Rozi, you're also one of the reasons I'm going to all this bother...