This is a blog of John and Ben's trip DOWN UNDER... 64 days 65 nights (May 20th- July 25th).  An experience of a lifetime.

Bansky

Bansky

AFL GAME!

AFL GAME!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Yep

So from where I left off sunday followed much of the same suit. Went downtown, walked around. Went into an aquarium and saw where the Australian Open takes place. Pretty cool stuff. The next day we got on a train and rode an hour NW and got out at a cool town named Kyneton(pronounced Kie-ton) where the ranch manager(michelle) of the ranch we would be working at for the next two weeks picked us up. That day we settled into the coolest ranch house ever. A big 4 bedroom house all to ourselves. And we did all our own cooking as well. Gotta say I kinda miss it right now. The next day we started work and met Michelle and the bloke we'd be working with Tod down the rode at the stables. Everyday we would wake up around 7 and be there at 8. Help Michelle out with feeding the horses and then spend the rest of the day fencing with tod. We really hit the ground running. And by that I mean our first day of work after feeding the horses they told us we would be doing some fencing about 2k away. I drove the fork lift tractor, ben drove the atv, and tod drove the vintage post digger tractor. I probably should have taken it as a sign when I tried to start the tractor the first time the key broke off in the ignition. Luckily we got it out and got on the rode to the new bridge we were gonna fence around. 10 min later after doing a little offroading and driving the the forest we got to the bridge. (A small dirt bridge with two concrete pipes underneath for a creek) Before we crossed we were all distracted for a second when one of tods blue healers was messin around with a sick roo. In my confident state of tractor driving I decided I was a little to far on the left and turned right only to find myself going more to the left and down. So, naturally, a slammed on the breaks and put on the e-brake to open the door to find not only did I get the tractor stuck but tear up the new bridge. It was now a mud bridge because the day before it had rained all day :/ basically it was just one of those days. Later we got it out and went about our business of fencing. And that was day 1.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Mars Bars


Mars Bars are the most popular candy bar down under it seems. The Mars Bar is a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars Inc. It was first manufactured in Slough in the United Kingdom in 1932 as a sweeter version of the American Milky Way bar which Mars, Inc. produced in the USA (not to be confused with the European version of the Milky Way, which is a different confection). A different chocolate bar with the same name was sold in the USA until 2002. It contained plain nougat, almonds, caramel and milk chocolate. The UK 58 gram Mars Bar contains 259 calories equivalent to 13 % of an average adult suggested daily calorie intake.