Specky

Out of Sydney we headed through the Snowy Mountains through the Australian Alps, along the way seeing wild horses and 10 old M5 BWM's racing to a town called Thredbo. This allowed us to get up early the next day to hike to the top of Mt. Kosciaskscozzoco (not spelled right out of spite because I could never pronounce it correctly). This notably is the highest peak in Australia. Aslo notable, as Forrest pointed out once we reached the top, "I'm sure this is the only continent that an old person could wheelchair up to the top of their highest mountain." Turns out from Thredbo you can take a chair lift up most of the way and then there is a steel grated pathway up the rest of the way. Austrailia is not known for its mountians. We of course, hiked the mess out of that mountain for 15 mile roundtrip specky adventure. "Specky" is abbreviated slang for "spetacular".

We travelled on to Canberra, the nations Capital city. My brother is always impressed that no one knows the Capital of Australia (and he does of course). From talking with the local Aussies and our tour books, the city was not hyped up to even worth driving through. We decided to anyways and got to see their Parliment building and go to their Museum of History. The most interesting thing about the Museum was that on the exterior they used braille artistically in the architecture with phrases like, "Love is Blind," and "Mate". As a scholar of Braille I was quite impressed and wished my fried Heidi (and her Mom who taught me braille) could have seen it. Heidi incorporates braille into her artwork though I first saw this method used by the infamous artist Cartier Henderson.




We are now in Sydney. We're staying at a hostel called "Jolly Swagman" in the dodgy Kings Cross area of town. Somehow Forrest has managed to make it this whole trip without shower shoes. Amazing. These are bathrooms where I have liberally been applying the toilet-paper-on-the-toilet-seat method for protection. Jolly Swagman. Also, you can order almost anything in Australia with egg on it, culinarily speaking.