rogerdoger

Been looking at jobs in northern Queensland and even the northern territories. there's quite a bit on offer. Its not only sparsely populated, but they had really bad storms that damaged a lot of houses over the last few months. I also made contact with a woman in Queensland who i did the helpx thing for. she would love to have me back to do more things on her house and I mentioned to her that Id like to find some paying work and she has a friend that has a house that also needs work and would pay. So sorta taking it one day at a time. I need to leave NZ by the end of May and I have my flight booked for gold coast, wouldn't cost much to take a flight up to cairns from there. I could stay for a month or two and see how it goes, then either go back to NZ to sell the van, or leave everything and go on to Europe, that kind of depends on what happens in the next month while in auckland.

There's been a huge amount of rain over the last few days. The other day it was non stop all day and now we have flooding over this part of new Zealand. A small babbling brook that I hopped from rock to rock to cross the other day is now a raging river. I'm using the rain as an excuse not to go on up to Auckland. I like it here and Im nervous about getting involved in the renovation project up there and also the living environment. Im sure it will be fine, but as usual i hate change, ironic considering how much travel i do! The camp site had a professional karioke come over easter. It was just one night a guy and a girl who both were pretty good singers.Its one thing for people to try to sing another when they try to do it naked! Ok there wasn't many that were nude, it was pretty cold that night, but certainly gave the affair another dimension. In the morning someone had slipped an easter egg under my camper. Still don't know who that was.