Once again: Mark's cultural learnings of america fo...you get the idea.: 2007

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

I'm Back

I made it out of the ghetto of oakland and i'm now safely on da westside back home in OZ just to let yaz know.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Zion Canyon

Byce Canyon

Grand Canyon Sunset

Thursday, May 17, 2007

ROAD TRIP USA

									Fuel Lt (13lt per	Cost US $
	Date	Location	Destination	Time	Time Cum.	Miles	Miles Cum.	Km	100km) Cum.	$3 per G (3.8lt)
	18/5/07	Springfield	Tulsa	2.5	2.5	183	183	295	38	30
		Tulsa	Oklahoma City	1.35	4.25	105	288	464	60	47
		Oklahoma City	Amarillo	3.54	8.19	259	547	882	114	90
		Amarillo	Tucumcari	1.39	9.58	112	659	1062	138	108
		Tucumcari	Albuquerque	2.32	12.2	174	833	1343	174	137
		Albuquerque	Gallup	2	14.2	139	972	1567	203	160
		Gallup	Flagstaff	2.4	17	188	1160	1870	243	191
		Flagstaff	Grand Canyon	1.38	18.38	81	1241	2001	260	205
		Grand Canyon	Williams	1.07	19.45	57	1298	2093	272	214
		Williams	Las Vegas	3.07	22.52	215	1513	2440	317	250
		Las Vegas	Bishop	5.14	28.06	262	1775	2862	372	293
		Bishop	Yosemite	3.25	31.31	139	1914	3087	401	316
	7/6/2007	Yosemite	Sacramento	4.1	35.41	171	2085	3362	437	345
Total	21 days				35.41Hr		2085miles	3362km	437litres	$345US ($414AUD)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Shooting range

Shooting trap

Trying to shoot a .38 special

Monday, May 14, 2007

- Jc's Lake down on the farm

- Andrew the maddog!

- Feelin lucky punk?

- I looove my guun

- Yo G, don't make us get all gang* on u!

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Last Update Before I'm Back in OZ

Aston Sunvilla (Intramural Soccer)

Well the time has flown by and now it's time to start packing up and heading off. The time that I've spent at MSU has been great, lots of new sights, friends and experiences. Now that I've only got around a week to go it's starting to get real, I'm going to be getting back to the real world sooner rather than later but in the mean time I've still got a few weeks of travelling and doing some more cool stuff before i get back to oz, so I'm looking forward to it.
The weeks since we got back from Mexico have just flown by, we've been kept entertained my our good friends over here and they've looked after us and shown us all of the sights around Missouri, thanks to all the people who have given us rides and put up with us. The last couple of weeks has seen me take a trip up to Osceola with Robby, Brad and Nick where we camped on Brad's property. The property was pretty much right next to lake Truman and it gave us a chance to knock back a few quiet ones and go swimming in the lake and jump off Brad's Tacoma tail gate. The weekend before this, Johnny Chiles took Lori and i down to Smedden Cave? to take a look inside, we got all kitted up at JC's place, helmets, torches and headlamps then made the trip down to the cave. The cave itself was massive, the entrance was big enough to drive a truck through but it was all gated, luckily one of John's friends had the key so we had the cave to ourselves. Andrew and I did a bit of exploring by ourselves (didn't take the camera, too wet down there) and saw some unreal stuff, we could have gotten lost so easy but luckily we didn't and by wading hip deep in mud we managed to get into some pretty tight spaces and see lots of pretty looking stalagtites and mites plus the occasional bat or two.

GHS Tennis Team: Matt, Don, Andrew, Matt, Me, Pat, Sunnie, Warren and Windser.

Over the next week or so i suppose it'll be time to say goodbye to the tennis lads that Andrew and I have been following around the country side and maybee do an exam or two during finals and donate my plasma for the last coupla times. Dammit, i've gotta clean my room out too and do some washing, oh well. The after college stuff is still in the planning stages but at least we know we've got some wheels (not that i've seen the beast yet) but it should be sweet from what i've heard, the basic plan of attack is this: drive to the grand chasam (2 days), spend time there (few days), drive to vegas spend a coupla days there, drive through death valley to yosemite np (1 day), spend the rest of my time there then get to LA somehow by the 8th of June. I'll arrive in oz at 7.55am on the 10th (that's sunday 10th June at 7.55am in the morning Mum and/or Dad).