Australia

Australia! The land where men are men and sheep are scared!
And just about every dangerous creature on the planet make its home in, including the deadly Goon box!

I can safely summarise my time in Sydney as it was all pretty much the same thing for 3 straight days. Drink, have a couple more and think about it, then drink some more! After my hectic last couple of days in NZ, I was hoping to do some real tourist stuff like actually SEE Sydney, but it turns out my mates there had their own ideas...
So for those 3 days of madness I would like to thank the Sydney crew of Steve, Ted, Fred, Mich, Mags, Ang, new edition Ed, and the others that joined in along the way. I had a great time and look forward to returning the favour the next time they pass through mud island looking for a 'quiet couple and thats it...!'




Oh, forgot to mention, I have a new player with me by now, Sue my older and 'wiser' sister. Over for a break from work and the much loved English winter!

From here on in it was one big blur of a trip up the coast (3.600 miles along the east coast) . We'd have liked to have had at least another 3 weeks to see things but time was not on our side, and nor was money - Oz is expensive!
So we did the backpacker thing of booking the whole itinerary through a travel agent and getting around on the hop on and off Greyhound buses. It looked to work out alot cheaper in the long run but all the 'hidden' expenses along the way kinda made us doubt it.

First stop was Byron Bay. I had loved this place last time I came through, although that was just a vague memory of a Goon box or ten (cheap nasty wine)! We only had one day and night there so we hit the beach for much of the morning, Goon box in hand of course, popped by the pub for a couple of the local brew on the way back to the hostel, and then decided as we are old farts now I 'nana'nap would do us good to allow us maximum party time that night. We got into bed at 5ish and woke up, almost late for our bus, the next morning!! Goon 1 Us 0.
Sue did a very impressive run from the hostel to catch the Greyhound bus while I searched the hut for my wallet, of course it was in my pack all the time. We made the bus, gave a solid high-5 and sweated for the next 30kms! Crisis!

Next stop was Noosa Heads. Great little beach spot although quite a yuppy looking place. Lots of really big expensive houses and shops. The main beach was pretty good, not good for surfing but had a great fish and chippy and that counts for everything! We took a couple of kayaks up the river to the rivermouth and made the old schoolboy error or forgetting little things called 'rip currents'. I'd say the paddled forward in the same spot for a good 10mins before we noticed and made a beeline across it. Strewth mate!
We had another quiet night that evening, the old livers were still bleeding away! Next morning was a sad one for some - ENG getting kicked out of the European champs, hoorah - and a glorious one for everyone in Scotland!

Onto Hervey Bay, our gateway to Fraser Island. A dingo got me baby....
Hervey Bay itself is quite a hole, very industrial and not much to do outside of your hostel. We stayed at Kookaburra Backpackers who were OK. Clean, had a pool, SKY TV and a laundry. Whatelse does one want in life?!
Fraser Island - Awesome!!! I did it last time and this time round was just as cool. The weather wasn't the best, we did get rained on at crucial times - like putting up tents and dinner, and climbing Indian Heads to get the classic pic, and lunch on the first day, and, and, and! So yeah, it pretty much rained most of the time, but we did get some great sunny bits on the all important Lake McKenzie, Lake Wabby, and the old ship wreck on the beach.
Our hired 4x4 had 9 people aboard, and a very cool bunch. We were'nt the most efficient when it came to cooking and cleaning, but we took the drinking as much Goon as humanly possibly prize - hands down!
Goon 2 Us 0.







- the side effects of downing 1/2 litre of goon in one go...









From Hervey Bay we did the long haul over night bus all the way up to Airlie Beach. This is the port for the Whitsunday Islands where we had a 3 day-2 night trip booked. We left our bags at the agents office and joined the gang, which to our surprise was 53 other people!
We had pictured our boat being this nice small yaught type thing but instead we were on a huge single hull 'sailing boat'. The sail might have gone up once or twice but the engine still powered us along. This said, the trip itself was really cool. We had a great bunch of people on the boat, and although there were so many we never felt cramped at all. Boat name is Atlantic Clipper incase anyone is keen one day ..


Of course as expected, Whitehaven Beach took the cake for being the highlight of the trip - unless of course we want to include 10 of us singing samba and Christmas tunes as we march round and round, drunk as farts in the boats hot-tub', and have the last man to find a seat when the singing stops go up to the front of the boat and sing 'my heart will go on''...




When there are drunk irishmen involved, you cannot write off anyform of debauchery!!! Nice one John, Shane, Marvin and James!!!
Goon 3 Us 0!






From Airlie beach - which of course included a farewell drinks session, karaoke included and late night flicking of hoof at the local ''discotech'' - we went to Magnetic Island for a couple of days to relax and re-cooperate. First night was a complete success. We managed to crash by 10pm after a very civilised dinner and 2 very poor games of pool.
The second night was not!!! We met an English couple in our dorm room and joined them for a couple of cold ones after dinner. This moved on to the beach where games of 5's kicked in, some skinny dipping, then off to the hotel pool as the fear of getting stung by jellyfish overtook the beercoats! A security guard spotted us after the whittest bum competition and we ran like bats out of hell in all directions! After years of TV, I put into practice the old hold-your-breath-under-water-and-they-''-never-see-you move - and it worked. Others tried leaping over the back fence and would have got away injury free if only they had done the reliable tuck and roll manoevre! Well, the security guard let them go in the end and we all hobbled off to bed.
There is no such thing as "a couple of drinks!!"

Very tired and hungover we made our way up to Cairns where I stayed with my mate Kirby I met in Africa. What do you do when you haven't seen someone for a long time, that's right - drink beer!! My liver started to bleed again! Aidez-moi! He did make arguably the best burger -in THE WORLD - for us that night though...

Sue and I signed up for a days trip out to the Great Barrier reef - when in Rome.. - and found ourselves on one of those huge pack as many people on a boat as possible and have a jolly old time kinda trips. Whata mistaka to maka! I got to see some cool coral and a shark and turtle or two, but the overly excited ship entertainer could have done with some lead poisoning. Man-it-was-painful. I did win a couple of fizzy drinks when he did a sing-a-long, guess the band gig!
Back to Cairns and our last night was a pretty chilled one at a hostel. We got some washing done, internet, phone calls, all the admin.
Oz is over, in a total blur! Great times though and thanks to all that made it so enjoyable. And sorry to all we didn't see and we shot past your town in a blur of Greyhound!
Next up....S.E ASIA... o boy!

New Zealand

I’m back!
New Zealand Part I:
Work.

Pips and I arrived in NZ on the 6th July and went pretty much straight to work. We managed to get a job working for a London mate of mine at his newly refurbished (sorry still in the process of) motel/backpackers. It’s located underneath Mt. Ruapehu in the small town of Ohakune - called Mountain View Motel and Backpackers. The town being famous for its carrots and yeah, that’s about it! They have this massive carrot as their town symbol as you drive in. Tchhh..Ja…..
The plan was to work there for the winter then help out for the summer fixing the place up. As it turned out, things with Pips and I came to an end half way through this and she went back to London. I decided to stay on for the rest of the winter then cut my NZ experience short and leave after a friends wedding in South Africa (Mid Oct).

Quick one on that: It was my mate Greig Wibbs’ wedding in Plett, marrying Annabel Cunningham. Awesome wedding! I had a pretty crap flight out but spending the two weeks with all the lads again, hitting the surf, the ice cold beers of SA and well the wedding itself, was all worth it. Unfortunately, as I do, I broke the LCD on my camera just before I left S. America and never got to replacing it in time - so no pics, sorry! All stored in my head that trip. Fantastic time though. Cheers all!

Back to NZ. - I got back end of Oct and spent the first night with Cliff and his lovely wife Sera in Auckland. Thanks for the great hospitality guys.

Then what was to be known as the Whirlwind Trip begun: Done in my smooth and swift BEAST of a car, Nissan Bluebird 2.0D! Oh yeah!

The 'BEAST'!

New Zealand Part II:
Play.
Auckland to Waiouru to pick my Scouser mate Mark up - met him on the Dragoman trip in S. America. A couple of high-5’s later and we head off to Ohakune for the night. Den and Lorelle were still there (the motel owners) so gave us a room for the night, for free. Rock on! Thanks guys!
Next day - the famous Tongariro Crossing. A 18.5km hike over the Tongariro range, getting to see Mt. Doom (from Lord of the Rings), the Emerald Lakes - awesome pea green lakes just below the crater, and a couple of other crater lakes. Some great views, and we were very lucky to have clear skies. My whole winter season there did not give me a day like that. Big result! We did that in just under 7hrs, and v glad to take our shoes off afterwards!

Next day was spent driving, in the rain, all day. Joy! We headed south a while then west round Mt. Taranaki - hardly saw it, crisis! Then up to the Waitomo caves. Lots of caves and glow-worms and eels. And black-water rafting, oh yeah!
Mark and I sign up for a 3hr cave walk/swim thing which turned out to be pretty cool. Lots of crawling through small holes, swimming through dark eel ridden water, yay, and some cool views of cave tops full of glow-worms. Defo worth doing…

Onwards and upwards back to Auckland. We spent the next two nights there, with a full day jet-skiing - compliments of Cliff, cheers mate! His company gave them 5 of the latest jet-ski’s to ‘test out’ for the weekend so we went bombing round Auckland harbour and out to the islands. Such good fun, incredible how powerful these things were. What a rush! Mark had other ‘lady business’ - nice one mate, so was awol all day.

We headed down again from there to the Coromandel. Stopping briefly in at Thames, Coromandel town before stopping in Whitianga for a couple of days. The plan was to relax for a bit, maybe take some kayaks out for a spin, but NO. It rained for the whole two days. Crisis! Did make it over to ‘Hot water’ beach and Cathedral cove though, and got some sunny periods in for a couple of pics.

Moving on and eastwards through Whakatane, Gisborne and stopping off in Napier for the night. Art Deco town deluxe! Some very cool buildings and bars. We were shattered from driving though so tried for an early one in our all female dorm. Didn’t happen! Women = noise! :-D
The big one, from Napier to Paihia - 12hrs of driving! Stopped in at Taupo, Roto-vegas, Hamilton, and Auckland on the way. Got there, checked into our v cool backpackers - the Mousetrap - and crashed hard!

Spent 3 days there, such a cool town. One day was spent over in Russell on rented mountain bikes, then drinking all night. Next was recovering all morning then a 10hr round trip up to Cape Reinga and back.

Last was on a sail boat round the Bay of islands, getting some very cool sailing in, some nice beaches and a cool bunch of tourists to share it with. And of course, a few too many drinks that night! I made some cool friends there and was sad to say cheers to them, and Mark, who was leaving the whirlwind tour and going his own way. The BEAST and I headed back to Auckland for a couple of night before I flew off to Sydney baby yeah!

A big thanks to Cliff and Sera for putting us up in Auckland, Den and Lorelle in Ohakune, the BEAST for getting us round that north island, everyone at the Mousetrap - you know who you are! Good times :-D

Next up…..AUSTRALIA!!

Bolivia & Chile - Atacama Desert

From Uyuni we drove through another old mining town called San Christobal. It used to be located a few miles up the hill but the whole town was relocated when this American firm bought the mine and decided its inhabitants were better off in the valley than on a hill. mmm

Before we reached the Bolivian/Chilean border, we pasted through a series of lakes, that due to various mineral deposits were coloured either red, green, white, blue, etc. Laguna Verde being the most impressive, as it had a huge volcano directly behind it and it´s waters a brilliant blue/green. Another cool thing about them is the minerals in the water alow the temperature to reach even minus 20 and the water doesn´t freeze.

The Atacama desert stars immediately as you come down the high Altoplano, and it is supposed to be the drist desert in the world. I could see why, no a shrub of plant life anywhere, for miles! Only the odd cactus survives out there. Thank goodness our truck didn´t do a tits up on us!

The only real point of interest we pass on the way besides the lakes, was the town of San Pedro. It was pretty dry and primitive, but I managed to befriend a local guy and got to watch the Boks vs Kiwis game at his place. Sucks ass we lost it though, come on Bokke! I also picked up some bug in San Pedro too and spent the most part of two days throwing up and sick as a dog. Blasted bugs!

The border crossing into Chile was painFul to say the least. They had us unload all our bags and went through them, looking for awooden things and plants that weren´t allowed in. Pips had bough a picture in Copacabana and the frame had spiders in it, Luckily they just killed them and let us take it..

Chile = boring! We´ve arrived in Santiago now, but for the past week we have spent driving pretty much every day through baron wasteland, and there ain´t much to report on. We camped a few nights and the rest tried to upgrade to rooms, as winter has arrived and it´s blurry cold aye! We got to do some star gazing at an observatory in Vicuna which was pretty cool. The guide could have been Borats brother, v amusing stuff, is niiiice!

Santiago looks to be a pretty decent city, although the white fog has manged to entent it´s reach inland and we haven´t seen the sky for the past few days. The Dragoman trip itself has offically ended today, and most of us are leaving either tomorrow or the day after. Next stop - New Zealand baby. Watch this space!

Bolivia - La Paz, Potosi and Uyuni Salt Flats

La Paz is set in some of the most amazing landscape I´ve seen. It´s basically at the bottom of a valley but it´s surroundings are almost totally rugged looking sand formations. Like something you´d expect to see on mars! Incredible to think how they manged to built a city on it, let alone a world class golf course!

I managed to geta round of golf in at "The hightest course in the world" - La Paz Golf Course. 4300m up, the air be thin up there! Meaning too, I could drive the ball almost twice the distance - didn´t help though, played like a donkey!

It was the birthday of one of the girls on the truck, so as we do, partied till all hours at the Hard Rock Cafe. Hungoverrrrr the next day!

Shopping wise, this was the place to be too, you could buy virtually anything there, even llama foetuses. Niiice...

Bolivia also has to be one of the cheapest places on earth too, all good things for a traveller.

Next stop, the mining town of Potosi. Once famous for its silver mines, it´s now just a tourist trap. A few of the others did a trip down the mines but we chose to spend the day walking round looking at more churches, museums, and llama foetuses! Yum! Apparently they are supposed to be placed in the foundations of your new house for good luck. Riiight...!

From Potosi, we made our way to the world famous Uyuni salt flats. Highest in the world. I think Bolivia might have the flags for world highest everything!

Along side the slat flats is a train graveyard which made for some good pics. The salt flats themselves, really really cool. We had fun coming up with the most clever pics using the white of the flats, so heres a couple..





















Oh, Uyuni is also home to the Best Pizza in the world, ever! And you´ll find it at the Hotel Tortino. Top tip of the day!

Peru - Cusco and the Sacred Valley

Cusco - v cool. Scenic, lots of churches, lots of little old ladies with a Llama in tow, lots of camera shops, internet cafes, super cheap restaurants, nightclubs and of course - the main plaza with a gagillion pigions. We didnt explore much of Cusco to be honest, it was nice to see the churches from the outside and when youve seen one Inca museum, youve seen em all.

We basically spent our last solo days relaxing and making sure we had all our stuff in order. Living out of a rucksack gets tiresome after a while and although its great to be the master of your actions, we couldnt wait to join the Overland trip and let our lives be dictated for a while.

And so, we joined Dragoman Overland on Tues 5th June, the part of our journey that would take us from Cusco to Santiago in Chile - 27 days in total. Things immediately started to look up. We were moved out of our cheapo hostel into this 3 star Hotel just up the road - with hot water! A rare luxury over here.

Our crew consists of a crazy Irishman and a Swiss chick as the guides/drivers, 9 girls of various nationalities, and one English fella. Life is good! Most of them had been travelling on Dragoman trucks previously and we were the newboys on the truck. I have been corrected a few times now by means of nasty shots, for calling the Truck, a bus. Big no no in this world!

The Sacred Valley - sacred! Basically comprises of various Inca ruins that run from Ollantaytambo to Machu Micchu and as far as Urubamba - if Im not mistaken!

Instead of the classic Inca Trail, we were doing this alternative option called the community walk. 4 days and 3 nights of hiking between local community schools and spending time with them and learning their ways etc. V cool. Finishing off with a visit to Machu Picchu. Sweet!

Our trip started with a visit to the ruins of Saqsaywaman, just outside Cusco. Our first introduction of Inca architecture and the amazing amount of work put into building them. The size of the stone blocks they carried and sculptured is just mind boggling. From there to the ruins of Pisac. Built on the side of a mountain, Pisac is split into three sections which basically were living, food storage and religious ceremonies. As with all the Incan cities, it was constructed in such a way that on the 21st June, the sun would fall on a certain rock, indicating the change of seasons. Then on the 21st December again. Very clever. You just cant believe how advanced their way of building was and their knowledge of the stars etc.

Moving on, from Pisac we drove through some winding valleys, volcanoes and lakes to our first campsite. A local school in the middle of nowhere! As we arrived the locals ladies set their stalls up, funny, and the kids came out to play football. Obviously the thing to do when the gringos come! Dinner was followed immediately by bed, a very tiring day. Baring in mind we were camping at 4400m, it was muy cold!!!!

The next two days involved lots of hiking up steep mountains, to a max height of 4700m. Got some amazing pics which reminds me, I need to upload! Night two we camped at another local school, and night three was beside a river in a valley that lead into the ´sacred valley´. So beautiful, but once again v cold! The company that took us on this trip treated us like kings too. We had our tents put up for us, morning tea to wake us up, a massive breakfast, élevensies, lunch, afternoon tea and then dinner. 5 star! They´re called Andina Travel if anyone is looking for a tip.

So day 4 was a pretty flat if not downhill walk of about 11km to Urubamba. Hard going on the old knees! From there we caught a bus to the town of Ollantaytambo. Another old Inca city built on the side of a mountain. The ruins are all still v intact so made for some great pics and hard climbs!

Next day - Machu Picchu baby! Absolutey stunning. You see it in the postcards all the time but actually feating your eyes on it is something else. We did a two hour tour round most of the ruins and then had a few hours of free time.

So myself and this other Welsh guy decided to climb Waynapicchu - the big mountain you see behind the ruins. It half killed me but the view from the top was priceless. Highly recommend it.

From there we made our way back to Cusco and into a 24hr challenge - basically to stay awake until about 6 the next morning. Not as easy as it sounds as we were quited shattered from the 4 days of walking, etc. But, of course we did it and were broken springs the next day!

Next stop was Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian side. Nice little place, a few cool bars and shops. We did a morning trip out to the famous floating islands. Basically everything is made out of reeds! The platforms themselves, the houses, the boats, quite amazing.

Onwards into Bolivia and to the town of Copacabana. It´s main purpose seems to be to serve the islands nearby with tourists and souvenir shops. We visited the Isla del Sol (Island of the sun) and did a walk from the north side to the south side. Very scenic and cool to see all the local villages on the way.

We only spent a couple of nights there before we relocated to the capital - La Paz. We arrived a few hours ago so not much to report as yet. It´s located at the bottom of a few towering mountains so looks very picturesque.

Pics to be uploaded soon . . .

Peru - Lake Titicaca

We leave Cusco and make ourway down to the shores of Lake Titicaca on our new form of transport - the Dragoman truck. Our new home for the next 3 weeks. The driver is a very cool Irishman called Martin and his assistant driver was a new starter from Switzerland called Tamar. Both a hundred times better than our guide through Africa. The rest of the truck was a combination of English, Ausi and Swiss. Great bunch.

Before we arrive in Puno, we stopped of at these old Incan ruins that were the site of their burial chambers. They looked like large kilns just placed on top of hills. V odd! This site was called Sillustani, and if I have to honest, worth a skip!

Puno is not the most exciting city but set on the shores of Lake Titicaca, it makes for a good pic. The harbour has unfortunately been covered with this carpet of green weedy stuff, but that fades out as you head into the lake. Town fun factor - zero!

Before leaving, we did a morning trip out to the famous "floating villages". Everything is built out of reeds and the village itself litterally floats on a bed of packed reeds. Strange they chose to still live out on them but I think they´re basically there for the tourists. They had options for tourists to sleep the night in one of the huts but I like the idea of solid ground under me, thanks!

Next stop is the small but scenic town of Copacabana. We spent a couple of nights there in a hotel that looked out directly onto the lake. Our view from our room got us some very nice sunset pics! We did a day trip out to the Isla del Sol and walked from the north beach to the south. It only took a few hours and compared to the Inca trail - piece of piss. Got some very nice pics in of the bays and distant ice capped mountains. Defo worth a visit.

Before leaving Copacabana, it is tradition that the truck and it´s passengers be blessed by the local priest. We had out truck decorated in an array of flowers and fireworks then were sprinkled by the holy water. Supposed to bring you luck on the roads - and over here you need it! The roads are bad news! Just down the way was what is offically known as The Worst Road in the World! Speaks for itself!

After a very effortless border crossing, we made our way to the East Shore of the lake via a dodgy as hell ferry. Legend has it the lake has claimed an overland truck by tipping over of of those ferries. Great!

So we leave Lake Titicaca and make our way to the unoffical capital of La Paz . . .

Peru - Trekking, Bird Watching and Sandboarding ...

Hola!

Well this weeks one is a winner! I might be correct in saying Pips and I went through what has to be the most testing physical exercise we´ve done - ever!

We left Mancora and had a delightful 20hr bus trip via Trujillo to the scenic mountain town of Hauraz. It´s set at about 3000m above sea level so the wise man would get there and plan to spend a couple of days acclimatising. Not us, no way! We arrive first thing in the morning, have a quick clean up then head into town and sign ourself up for a 4 day hike of the popular ´Santa Cruz´loop. It entails 4 days and 3 nights of hiking around some of the highest mountains in Peru.

By late afternoon, the altitude headaches had set in but a massive bowl of pasta later and we were ok. Ish ...

Day 1 - we get picked up from our hostel at 6am and get carted off to the bus stop. The bus, which runs once a day to Yungay, decided after a misjudged speedhump to blow it´s back suspension and die on us. We spent a couple of hours watching them try and fix it on the side of the highway, before a minibus arrived and carted us up to the town we started the hike from. The drive up there was hair-raising to say the least. A climb of about 1200m up this very thin windy road, and a driver who knows not what a brake is. Crumbs! We eat a quick lunch, marvel at the load the poor donkeys have to carry, then set off.

Our group consisted of a varied level of fit people, all a level way above Pips and I. Oops! Immediately we set our place at the back and battled up and down the hills and valleys until we reached camp 1. 15kms later, sore feet and altitude headaches deluxe. This hiking thing is a bit more involved than I thought!

Day 2 - Hell! We set off about 8am and it´s uphill for 3 and 1/2 hours. I´ve run a marathon before and that hurt but this was in a league of it´s own. We climbed up to a height of 4750m and the air up there - just isn´t! The last few hundred meters before the summit of the pass took about an hour, one small step at a time. The prize was priceless though, a view of both sides of the valley and a close up of some very scenic snow capped peaks. Awesome!

A couple of hours later we arrived at camp shattered, and spent the afternoon nursing our feet and teaching the others the card game Shithead. Quality!

Day 3 - peace of piddle. We are pro hikers now! Steep climbs - bring them on! Actually the day was a pretty flat walk but that was made up for by distance, a good 20km in total. More blisters, feet nursing and card games entertained us in Camp 3 till bed time. And I hadn´t mentioned the cold before now but know our -7 sleeping bags were no good! It was COLD!!!

Day 4 - Easy. A short 2hr walk down the valley, following the winding river and towering valley walls, brought us to the end of the trip. And not a moment too soon. We stank, were shattered and in much need of some rest...

Back to Huaraz for some R&R, a jolly good curry at some English´ curry house, then we get on an overnight bus to Lima. It was supposed to arrive at 6am, in time for us to run across the road to this other bus company, and leave on the 7am bus to Pisco. The bus arrived at 5am on the other side of the city. So we quickly cabbed it across and managed to get the 7am. Like legends! Instead of Pisco, we opted to go straight to Paracas.

A small fishing village where you can get day trips out to the Islas Ballestas - the poor mans Galapacos! Not a bad little place, not much going on really except for those tours. So we did the morning one, saw thousands of birds, some dolphins, sea lions, penguins, pelicans, etc etc. Got some cool pics from it which will be on their way soon.

From there to Ica, then a short cab ride to the desert oasis of Huacachina. It litterally is a small town with a lake in the middle, some palm trees and totally surrounded by sand dunes! V Cool!

We chilled there for a couple of days, hiked the big dune just outside town and tried out the whole sandboarding thing. Nothing like snowboarding! Much slower and you get sand Everywhere! We did a buggy tour into the desert too, which included a few sandboarding sessions and a sunset, aaaahh. Oh, and how could I forget, we did a wine tour too. Saw how they make the local drink called Pisco. And had to buy a bottle. To be consumed at a hostel near you!!

We´ve now made our way, on a very posh bus, to the mountain town of Cusco. Looks quite similar to Quito actually but that´s just a first impression. We are here for the next couple of days then join up with an overland truck (Dragoman) that will take us all the way down to Santiago. 27 days later! Bring it on. So more pics, ramblings to come!

Adios for now