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Wow, things move fast. I've taken off my watch and feeling total unencumbered by time. It's great.


A few pictures then a couple stories.

Going with smaller pictures for quicker uploading (it took 12 minutes for these):

My "cabin" in Nimbin

Looking directly out the front flap.

The Roche Family Hotel. I stayed on the second floor corner. Yeah, right above the sign to the place! For 28 bucks! The food was great too.

This is Les (he pronounced it lez). He is a "native" Australian and lives just outside of Murwillumba. As you might be able to see on the ground to the left are his wares. Some very nice leather and kangaroo hide work. I bought a cool wallet.

Stories:

About an hour after getting to the Nimbin Rox Hostel I was talking to this 20 y.o. woman, Lynn, from Germany, in the Teepee, who's roommate is Japanese, and she said "Who vould haf thot dat only 20 dase ago I woult be in ze mountens uf Australia, smoking weet all the day vit a japanese man?" A brilliant observation.

I was learning German from this about 5 or 6 y.o. little girl, Anna Ziegler of Germany. She is here with her family (Father, Mother, and 2 y.o. brother) on holiday.

She would say something and I had to mimic her. I don't remember exactly what I said, but according to her parents she was making me say things like, "Miene haren ist brown", I wear glasses, things like this. Then I said okay it's my turn. You say what I say. So I told her to say "The dog is purple." And she says "The dog is people." Perfect! Oh that is beautiful. Much better than what I said. Say it again. She said it again, and again, and again.

I was crying I was laughing so hard. I've got a grin on my face and my gut hurts just thinking about how funny it was. A great family.