Over the Rainbow!

I traveled to Oz a few years ago and can’t wait to go back. I am a poet so the idea that they call it Oz makes me title most of my poems or at least include the whole ‘Over the Rainbow’ idea. What a great place, amazing people, history, and CHEESE!!! I went to all the war monuments and despite the stereo type that Australians dislike Americans I found that the only thing they really talked negatively about was our president, who at the time with our cunnilingus loving Clinton

I recommend this trip to anyone who wants a taste of traveling. I stayed in hostels to cut costs and made life long friends from all over the country. Next stop is Switzerland, I even have a house to stay in thanks to my Oz trip.

If you do go to Australia (fighting off the urge to say: If you do decide to go down under, they hate how yanks find this hilarious) here are the top five must see locations and or monuments:

-Capitol City: Canberra. Besides the cute shops, amazing hotels, the parliament is something as Americans we should experience. The building it’s self is beautiful and the architect is actually American I believe. You walk inside and see all the blah blah but upstairs and outside you are able to walk over the top of the entire parliament building. It’s the greenest grass and amazing view you’ve ever seen. This signifies that the people have a part in all aspects of the government.

-Melbourne: A smaller city but if you are from Seattle, or just a smaller city in general this will feel like home. Driving down the main drag past the trolleys (which were sent from San Francisco when they got new ones) trees are everywhere and yet it’s 80 degrees (I can’t remember the Fahrenheit translation) and not a cloud in the sky.

-Bondi Beach, Sydney. Besides the fact (for the men) this is a topless beach, the surfing is the best in the country.

-Sydney of course. The opera house, the bridge (which you can walk on top of with a group of people), and the manly ferry are just a few reasons. The restaurants and café’s are to die for, and the people…well I cannot say enough, they are all so kind. I did not see a drop of road rage the five months I traveled around.
They take life one day at a time.

-Last but definitely not least, Perth. Anyone heard of Heath Ledger?? He is from here and like Melbourne it is a fairly small large city but there are tons of beaches. This is a little more artsy of a city in my opinion, so many cute little shops to buy art and just see the culture.