This morning Alice asked me what I'd do if she went down to Melbourne and she told me it was amazing and there was loads of jobs there which upturned all my decisions about staying in Surfer's. I knew I'd enjoy Melbourne more, but it felt like a bit of a risk to leave a job and house here, especially as both were new. Once the idea was in my head though, I knew I'd regret not going, and so we're going to go to Byron Bay then fly down. Accommodation is a lot cheap...

I got up early so that I could view a room share, because the girl started work at 10.30. The house is nice, but I would be sharing the room with a boy when I'd prefer not to, and the house is a bit too centrally located (I'm enjoying having to walk lots at the moment). I picked up my laptop and started writing up the 3 weeks worth of my blog I'd handwritten. Alice has decided to try and find a care agency job elsewhere in our spare week before the new Hogs Brea...

I wanted to get up quite early today as I thought it would be a mini mission to get my laptop sorted out- I had seen a few more places that looked like they repaired computers on the way back from Mermaid Beach, and thought I should check out their prices, and also see how much new ones would be from JB HiFi in Pacific Fair shopping centre (near Broadbeach). However when I went in to get my laptop, I asked them if they had any refurbished laptops at the moment. T...

There was a few bits 'n' bobs me and Alice needed to get shopping, including soap and conditioner which you can get quite cheap from Crazy Clark's, which was in Main Beach, in the opposite direction to Surfer's from the hostel, but the shopping centre wasn't very good and so we walked all the way from there to Surfer's, back on ourselves. I got a pair of jeans for $12.50- I needed some for work since Blake enforces the 'no shorts' rule that Josh ignores. Along t...

Today we got up early to clean the rest of our van. We didn't want the wheel's to look as dusty as they did (so they wouldn't have any clues that we drove on the unsealed roads to get to Longreach) so we must have looked quite funny, using the washing up brush and sponge to tidy the wheels up. I had memorised the route to drop off the van, (the cheap petrol stations seemed to have disappeared since we drove out of Brisbane) but since the road I needed to take did...