The last couple of days have been relaxing!  The surf has been good, so we have been up at 7:00 A.  I'm not really surfing yet, but having long periods of frustration interspersed with 10-20 seconds up on the board!  Its getting better, but I may invest in a lesson when I get back to Sydney.  The afternoons have been spent reading, walking into town,sleeping.  Shultzie has continued with wonderful meals for dinner and t...

I got to Byron yesterday and everything has been nice and relaxing!  Its a hippy-surfer type town with a few well-placed wealthy folks to drive the price of real estate sky high.  Yesterday started really hectic as I overslept and missed the train to the airport.  I had to take another one that only got me close and then take a cab.  My driver was a very passionate Lebanese man who expounded upon all the politics of the Middle East.  I di...