Tour van friends by Claire. On Flickr.

AUSTRALIA! What a rad place! Maybe it's like England and Florida? London and Florid? Flondon! Everything here is just a little bit nicer. The quality of life seems to be pretty high and so far the percentage of amazingly nice people to jerks is pretty amazing.

The one thing that sucks here is the INTERNET. Australia you are crazy! No one has wifi, and if they do, it's expensive. FUCK THAT, THE INTERNET IS FREE. Australia, seriously, get it together.

DAY ONE: BRISBANE. We started off on Monday in Portland, Oregon at 3pm. We flew to San Francisco first, then hung out at the airport for a few hours before getting on the 10 hour flight from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand. We lived some sort of time warp day on the plane and arrived in Auckland at 5am on Wednesday. At this point we felt pretty normal. We both slept on the plane a fair amount and Air New Zealand was totally nice and had surprisingly good vegan food. The airport wait and the following 3 hour flight from Auckland to Brisbane gently pushed us towards exhaustion. WE MADE IT!

We met the incredibly nice Andy from UV Magazine and Wolfgang Monthly at the airport and he took us all around Brisbane and introduced us to the flat white (pretty much a latt