katoomba

i've written this damn post twice now, and the server keeps cutting it out so it won't actually post. i'm going to post it in bits, so if it seems unfinished when you read it, that's why. i can't post photos today by the looks of things. stupid bloody server.

29 January 2006 7:33am Day 21 Cave Day

We're finally in Katoomba (it was 4 hours drive, not 3)

for the moment, we're really enjoying being cold - Liz even has ugg boots on. actually, looking around, everyone else is wearing shorts and t-shirts. one man doesn't even have a shirt on. i do think we may be in trouble when we really get cold. i don't remember what it feels like to be cold, i've spent almost all my teenage and adult life ballina and north - i don't think a brisbane winter, or even an ocean shores winter, counts as winter. my warmest clothes are a couple of (qld strength) jumpers, one pair of jeans, 2 pairs of long socks and some gloves. oh, and 2 thermal shirts my mum gave me from her trip to japan. if i don't get some warm clothes soon, i'm going to freeze off random body parts. i prefer to keep my random body parts where they are, thank you.

8:38 am

I guess on leaving brisbane and travelling for a year i had this romantic notion that certain things would disolve away, and that distance would help me gain perspective and let go of a few things i've been holding onto.

3 weeks in, i've let nothing go. the thoughts are running through my head just as fast, if not faster than before. i haven't the convenient distractions anymore - interestingly enough, i rarely think of work. not that i've forgotten it, there are some people who's stories i will never forget, they're emblzoned on my mind whether i like it or not, but without the stress of work, i'm having to face all these other things. perhaps that's why i'm so tired all the time. i'm starting to face all this emotional bullshit. i've come so far in the last 18 months emotionally, i thought this trip would give me a break from it all.

silly me.

yours in emotional exhaustion,

Liv

afternoon

caves rock! he he... i love a bad pun.

we spent 1.5 hrs in the orient cave at jenolan caves, and it was truly sensational. i really wanted to see caves on this trip, it was one of my "must do" things. i don't know how to describe it adequately (no amount of gushing seems to fully describe it) so i won't waste my time trying.

if you get the chance, just go. it was incredible.