Sarah and I went to Australia. We started in Brisbane so she could visit a friend she knows from her Internet projects. Driving a car in Australia is an interesting experience. We are renting cars twice...in Brisbane and in Tasmania. My method of avoiding disaster is to concentrate really hard on where I am and what I need to do (e.g., you have to look where you are not used to looking in making turns, and to make a right turn, you have to go across the traffic...). We got lost getting to the hotel and ended up going around in circles on various streets for several attempts. Every time we saw Turbot St., we knew we were still in trouble. We finally found the hotel and were very glad to park the car.
We found Brisbane to be very friendly in terms of walking around and finding things we needed. I needed an SD card for my camera and found one at a very good price in a local dept. store. Sarah needed a haircut, and we found a school for hairdressers where she got a nice cut for $10, with the attention of the teacher and student and maybe some other people.
Sarah's visit with her friend was "awesome." I used the time she was away to visit a park near my hotel that was pretty awesome, walk around, etc.
One of the things we did in Brisbane was buy the first of many t-shirts (not for me, though I told Sarah that I reserved the right to wear her t-shirts if I wanted to!).
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