No more tears…

Do you know that Donna Summer song?  I feel love…no more tears is the name of it.  I’ve stopped ruminating the party and have been enjoying my birthday festivities instead.  It’s (mildly) interesting (to me) how every single one of my “issues” came up around the whole thing.  I’m so bored with my “issues” – is that a California thing or do people have “issues” everywhere?  I won’t bore you with them today.  On the whole, my “issues” are very tame and benign, although I did eat about six chocolate turtles while surfing idiotic videos on You Tube last night.  What a waste of time.

But, I found an Australian guy who made me yearn even more for the land down under.  I can’t wait to go there again.  I have a new idea on how to travel there and I want to find someone to go with me – that’s the hard part, finding a good travel companion.  My idea – buy (or rent) a VW camper and take a big long road trip through Australia, and New Zealand.  I want to go to both places and I want to be outside experiencing nature.  There are so few people there that when you do come to a city, it is more fabulous than when you encounter one here in the states.

Yesterday I went hiking in a beautiful redwood forest that I had never been to before.  We saw two mountain bikers the entire day!  The place was called El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve, although it is probably quite crowded on the weekend, yesterday it was peaceful and serene.  Even though there are no densely populated areas nearby, it still felt civilized because of the plane/highway noise that filtered through the trees every now and then.  This does not happen in Australia.  When you are in the middle of nowhere there, you are really in no man’s land.  People wave to every car that passes them on the highways because there are so few people around!  That is where I want to be!

I’m sure most Aussies just want to get the hell off that island and experience the world.  I wonder if they know how good they’ve got it over there?  I can’t wait to go back, issues and all.

~ by inbetweengirl on February 1, 2007.