I'm getting lazy with the journal entries. Last weekend was my 2nd trip with my Outdoor Education Class. We went backpacking and camping for 4 days. It was an awesome time. The place we went to had so many really cool mountains and big granite boulders everywhere. We got to climb around in caves a lot. Some of the caves were really little- we had to slide through on our stomaches to squeeze through sideways. We went through this one pass to an open area that ...

Last week was the University Study Week so I took a big road trip up to Fraser Island. I went with 2 friends from Eau Claire, Val and Andy, Willow the Spansih guy and Porisa, a Sweedish girl. Andy and Porisa bought a car so we squeezed the five of us plus tons of gear (packs, tents, sleeping bags, food) into thier tiny little car. We left on Friday morning of last week and just got back last last night (Saturday). It was a great week!!! Fraser Island is the ...

About a week ago I took an extended weekend (Wed.-Sunday) and flew up to northern queensland for a little vacation with some friends. i traveled with 5 other Americans and two guys from spain. the two others girls and i had book a pakage previously, so we already had our days all planned out and paid for. we stayed at a pretty nice hostel in the middle of dowtown cairns, a tropical city of about 100,000 people. we barely spent any time at the hostel, although...

Last weekend was the first trip in my Outdoor Education class. We went to this place called Meebum-bia. Basically it's just a bunch of land owned by these two farmers who let people hike and camp on it. It's out in the middle of nowhere about 2.5 hours north of Lismore. The whole trip was great! There were 25 people in my group, which is really big, but everyone got along very well and we didn't have any complainers. This first day when we got there, we played ...