G'day From Sydney
My first impressions of Sydney are of a very clean city. You can hardly find garbage anywhere on the ground. Also this is a very cultural diverse city. Walking down the street you can hear the Aussie accent, then Japanese, Chinese, Israeli and Hindi. I really like it here. I can easily see myself living in Sydney it is so beautiful and there is much to do.

Random shot of downtown Sydney. Notice the cultural and architectural diversity.
Hans from Norway, me, and the lovely and talented Debbie from Manchester U.K. BTW if you are from Manchester you are called a Mancurian. Hans is 19 and is a club DJ. He's very bright fellow. Debbie is now two years out of University (in Europe they call it Uni) with a degree in Fashion Design, is a hell of an artist with Acrylic paint on canvas, and is in Sydney doing a kind of trial work program with Sass and Bide Fashion. The 3 of us went to the Sydney Opera House and also the Royal botanical Gardens. 3 can be so much a crowd.

I want to let everyone know that there are so many young people out there traveling the world. Hans has been to Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, China, South Korea, and Russia. Hostels are full of people his age. The biggest cost is the plane ticket. My suggestion to everyone is to get off your ass, don't spend your money on a car, but save it to travel. My 'round the world ticket cost me $2300. I went past a travel agency this morning advertising RTW tickets for $1777! Once you are on the road it really is not all that expensive. Many hostels (almost everyone that I have stayed in) has a kitchen to keep food costs down so it will not cost you more than say 50 dollars a day and this is in Sydney Australia, a major world city.

Plus there are very few Americans traveling the world. I have only met one other American and he was in Fiji. What gives? Come on out into the world, the air is fine.