After 28 hours of flights, layovers, trains, and cars, Anna and I made it to our lovely little camp site in Maroochydore yesterday. Actually, we first re-familiarized ourselves with some of our old haunts around town, like the Sunshine Plaza mall (where we had our first photo together), one of the YWAM base houses (where we first met) to grab Ryan Kirk’s tent (thanks again Ryan and Christen!), and the Mooloolaba boardwalk (where we had our first convo, in particular about how much I dislike wind). We also visited the Australian version of Target, which is like a shady cousin of the great American store, and some other places. Finally, we hit up the camping store and after inspecting the overpriced sleeping pads, we passed on them and bought an inflatable double-sized mattress for less than the price of one pad. A purchase I share never regret.
All in all though, it was a little overwhelming to do some shopping and prepping once we got here, and we were super tired. We were in our sleeping bags by 6pm and asleep at 6:03pm, and didn’t get up until the choir of tropical birds starting chirping at 5:30am. A morning spent at a cafe and walking around town has completed our re-energizing, and now we’re just trying to sort out our next mode of transportation.
I’ll try to get some pics up soon, but there aren’t many yet.