Mar 08 2009
All That Glitters …
I’m in Coolangatta (Gold Coast), Queensland, Australia.
It’s been about 1 and one-half years now since the last time I was in a Western country. So yes, I am feeling very much like an Amish kid on vacation in the big city. But regardless, today was an absolutely awesome fuckin’ day:
- I am in an English speaking country again.
- I can drink water from the tap again (an added benefit, considering a bottle of water costs 3 freakin’ dollars).
- I’ve been hanging with my good friend all day again.
- I bought a sick new surfboard (a 6’4″ Darren Handley, cuz apparently surfboards are the ONLY things cheaper here than in Asia).
- I watched the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, the first stop of the 2009 ASP World Pro Surfing Tour.
- I ate real cheese for the first time in almost 2 years.
And, most importantly:
Yes, I’ve still got an extreme case of culture shock. But the cheese helped.
I like it here very much. I really do.
2 Responses to “All That Glitters …”
Congrats on the 6’4″! You must be really moving up the food chain since I last saw you wrestling with your log (or “mal” since you are down-under). Now if you could only get over the whole “hot chicks think I’m gay” thing, there’d be nothing left to stop you…
Hopefully the pros are sharing some of those waves with you…
Scott
Hey Scott,
Hope you and M are good. Yeah, I’ve been scaling down my boards for a while — there’s only so much you can do on a Mal in Indo. I brought that 6’4″ all the way down from Gold Coast to Melbourne in nothing but a board sock with no dings … then as I was putting on the conveyor at the Melbourne airport, I smashed the tail into the counter. Yep, no matter what, I’m still a freaking moron.