so now a few days later....
i now have some time to post since i've caught a cold and am resting up and staying pretty low key. i've met a few good people at the hostel i'm at 'nomad's maze'. they have day and night stuff planned for anyone there to do. so the first few days i did most of the night activities, which are mainly going to pubs and enjoying yourself. aside from the social aspect, usually a good free diner is involved with your first couple drinks covered as well so the night out is made for the traveller, dirt cheap.

i made a couple good friends to hang out with elsewhere through those nights; mainly a northern australian named jamie and a german named benni. benni's travelling the country kinda the same as me minus the bike and add a car but still starting out on his own.
he just got here too and just getting here and trying to figure out what all needs to be set up to get started here ie. tax file number, bank account, shopping for the outback etc. can be taxing; it's nice to have someone to bounce off ideas and questions.

Emmanual (the cook from vicious circle whose travelling oz the same time as me) came into town last night. he's been in melbourne for about a week and has some good stories. it's good to see my first familiar face from back home. did some sight seeing with him today and i think we're going to check out the opera house tommorrow.

supprisingly i've found quite a few people to jam with here. there was a 3 peice jazz band in hyde park sax, 3peice drums , and a bongo player. i'm getting a little better with the xaphoon and was able to play w/ them for a while (once the sax player figured out what key the xaphoon was in). at the very end of playing with them this oz was walking by threw down about 6 shopping bags and started freestyle dancing and singing while we were playing; it was pretty fun times.

also played with a guitar player last night while we we're in kings cross area near manny's (emmanual's) hostel and played more cover tune like songs. 'labamba' was definatly our hit. accidently broke the reed this morning and found a really great music store here called allen's. i nearly bought a ukelayle (sp?) for $25... we'll see about that one.

oh i almost forgot the biggest news.
i chose the bike......jzero, rich drum roll......................................................................................................
1981 Honda Goldwing GL1100 is mine! Dark blue almost the same as the Suzuki850, hard locking saddlebags, a tail box for even more storage and a really ugly fairing which i'll rip of to put my wind screen on (customizing to come after inspection). i'm pretty excited even in my non healthy state. so it's way out in the suburbs and takes me an hour and a quarter train ride to get to. i've put a deposit down and will be going back soon to pay the rest and pick it up. yeah!

this last week is feeling like the week before it. preparation. although i've been doing stuff and having fun it's still like it hasn't started yet. sydney is a huge city all full of tourists and travellers i'm sure it's not the same as the rest of australia. in time, we'll see. ... ..killing hours, filling power lines ha ha. i had to.