Full Circle

In the last week, rounding up our time here, Caleb and I have come a full circle from the start of our time in Australia. We realized this as we pulled into Newcastle where it all began. Our first month was spent in Newcastle without a car walking everywhere. The other day as we were driving around and things that used to take an hour to get to were now only 5 minutes apart, it was clear how much we have adjusted to life here.

Over the last few weeks, I've taken a couple of pictures trying to sum up what living out of a car (some would refer to us as Rubber Tramps) is like.

YES we celebrated 4th of July with a feast, including oysters.

The full spread

We know we've found a great spot to sleep when we wake up to a view like this

You brush your teeth in a bathroom sink, we use public water fountains

You have a living room, we have park benches

Props to McDonalds marketing department for their free wireless. Although it is usually terrible and super slow, they earn SO much business from having this. The other fast food restaurants would gain so much if they had wireless.

Good morning from the Portugal bear cave

You have a kitchen, we have our stove and pots and pans

Pb&J, it's hard to beat. But if you're trying to beat it, try peanut butter and nutella! It's like reese's on a sandwich.

The other night we watched Into The Wild and laughed about how much we could relate to. One scene of Alex brushing his teeth and shaving in a trashed public bathroom was all too familiar.

We're hanging out around Sydney's northern beaches for now. Our friend Pedro is here so we've enjoyed seeing him and we're trying to sell the car in Sydney. Yesterday we walked around the city and put up flyers in every hostel we could find. We also headed out to Sydney's Olympic park for part of the Hillsong Conference last night. We heard from Judah Smith of The City Church in Seattle about knowing that Jesus is there in the midst of every storm in our lives. I think there were roughly 21,000 people at the Acer Arena to hear him. It was SO cool to be apart of the worship with that many people.

Eleven days and counting...