What is going on, guys?I Hope you're going well!
It's time for another vlog! It seemed like you guys who really liked the previous one so, today is Easter Friday
We've just driven back last night. We drove back from Canberra, so we came back. It was about I think 3 p.m.. I picked up
Kell we drove down, it took about 7... 8 hours, we got home just before midnight
So it was about 11:30 in the evening when we got home. It was a quite a long drive
We stopped off, did a bit of photography during sunset
I think that was in Glen Rowan, which is a place where Ned Kelly's last stand was. Ned Kelly
So check him out if you don't know him, he's a massively famous Australian folk
mmm hero
Antihero... some people think he was good some people think he was bad, but he his last stand where he was fighting the police
Was in Glen Rowan, I believe, so check him out. Anyway, yes, so it's Easter Friday today, yesterday was Thursday
We drove down after work, got here by midnight, pretty much hung out for an hour or so with my folks, got into bed
and now
I've been fiddling around with the podcast getting that ready for the weekend and
also hanging out with the folks, my parents, hanging out with them, hanging out with Kell, we went out got some coffee and
Now I'm working out what to do this evening. So Kell is currently downstairs getting some lessons from my dad
he's helping her with photography stuff and how to
Analyze the photos on the computer, and I'm probably gonna go catch up with my mate
James and his brother Dave so, you've heard them James Buchan and Dave Buchan, Dave his brother
You might not have heard, but James has been on the interviews. If you haven't checked them out, make sure you do
So it's going to be an interesting day. I'm going to try catch up with them
We'll see what happens, might get some fish and chips, but let's see where we end up. Vamos!
A traveller. All right, see you guys! See you later!
See ya! it's pretty funny, how used to me
my family's got, they're pretty tolerant with regards to me videoing and doing all sorts of stuff so I
always really
appreciate their patience
But yeah, so it's pretty funny that I go downstairs to grab the drink
I'm fluffing about, fluffing about is in not doing anything of importance,
And they just tolerate it and ignore me and let me do my thing
Anyway, I'm gonna see if I can
stumble out of the house
With all my stuff whilst also filming myself
So this is Ocean Grove, my folks place, pretty nice day, huh?
It was a magpie here coming across the road
Wonder what he wants
What is going on, Maggie?
A little baby one... that's gonna fly off
What have I dropped?
Okay, on second thoughts this was a bad idea
Alright, dropping things everywhere so the...the
Annoying thing about this car at the moment is the keys, the lock unlocks, but this thing in here gets caught, and I can't
Can't open the door so I always have... I always have to unlock the car, and then use this key to
Open the front of my car
Talk about frustrating just , just chuck my gear in
This is a typical thing that I do all the time, right? so
Let's see if you can see, put my pants a jacket top and a jumper in there
Because you never know what the weather's gonna do down here, right?
Sometimes it's... it's really
Sometimes it's really warm, sometimes it's really cold you never know what's gonna happen
So, always be prepared, guys, always be prepared this goes for anyone in
Southeastern Australia, where the weather tends to... to do these ones, tends to go up and down quite a lot
so
One of those things in Australia that you might notice as well in the car here
We have the steering wheel and everything
on the right-hand side of the car so
All of the the...that's not a gear stick, but the stick that for the auto car is actually operated by
my left hand and
The handbrake and all of this jazz here
So that tends to be quite different from other places in the world, depending on where you're from
Places like America. They drive on the other side so the arrangement of the car here is all
Reversed so they would be over here, okay?
So that's one of those things that we talk about culture shock people often don't realize that in Australia here
don't know if you can see
And it's probably reversed
we drive on the
Left side of the road, not the right side of the road
So that's a little thing that you have to get used to when you're here and also
I'm not going to be able to video when I drive because the police
somewhat frown on using your phone
whilst
Driving and it's probably worse than frowned upon
They will fine you, you will get fined so, another tip in Australia
Don't play with your phone too much while you're driving if at all
I'm not sure what the laws are if you can prove you're playing with iTunes, but definitely don't text or call
Anyway guys, let's get started and see where we end up. I'm so shameful guys. I'm so shameful
This is our evidence of last night's trip all the way down from Canberra, so we had a few stops
Got some junk food, Pepsi Max, coffee
chips
Yeah, that's that's a pretty common sign when you've gone on a long road trip
And I found this this morning, got this for Kell, little horse
Don't know where that came from so, sorry if the child who lost this and it was on the road
Lost it, but I found a little horse
Alright guys, so I worked out how to wedge the camera right into the front of the car's windshield and
Dashboards so, that you can see me whilst I drive and I can chat
So I thought we were just yeah chat to a little bit about the car. I absolutely love this car
It is a Ford Falcon a wagon
Really really cheap to fix so, if you guys are coming to Australia
And you want to get a big car with loads of room in it
totally recommend getting a wagon like this and a Wagon is a car that has obviously this space at
The back here where there's a lot of boot space as opposed to say a Sedan or a Sedan
Where the boot is sort of a separate compartment from the rest of the car so
Yeah, we've driven to Canberra several times in this thing. It's done hundreds of Ks, thousands of Ks, since I've got it
It's almost clocked up
It's getting close to 300,000 kilometers now
and
It's just a really really cheap second-hand car that works like a charm
Absolutely works like a charm, haven't had a single issue with it except the door
Lock thing not opening from the electronic
Device, the electronic beaver that I have, the little thing on my keychain
anyway
Open up guys. It's going to get better and better
I love this little beauty car, except too you might see the upholstery, the upholstery it's kind of fallen off the roof, but
Adds a bit of charm to the car, guys, a bit of charm, so anyway. You can see it's a really beautiful day
I'm driving up from Ocean Grove which is down the coast here going into the city
There's loads of farms either side of me here, so there's a lot of open fields with
yellow grass in it and there's heaps of sheep, heaps of sheep that are
Growing their wool. It's getting longer for the winter
There's a lot of cows as well, some horses and every now
And then you see a llama or two hanging out on these farms, and now we get into suburbia so, now
You'll see hopefully coming up the back here heaps of houses, and this is Leopold
Leopold here so
It's only about a half an hour drive guys, doesn't take long
It's just a quick trip up the road to go see my mates in Geelong and this is where I grew up
I went to school in Geelong so every single day for six years
I was traveling from Ocean Grove on bus so, obviously not weekend's, all the way up to
Geelong so, it's nice to be to be back. It's kind of I
like being back in this part of this part of Australia, beautiful place
So this is Geelong
All right, so here we are
Looks like James and Dave are both here. This is James's place
Let me just
Lock my car, and we can go in and see who's here and what they're up to
The bandit that I've been driving around, let's have a look see who's here and gotta get on the side. Don't go through the front
Hello! What's going on?
Say hello. Guten Tag!
This is James guys. Hi! How is it going? You probably saw him in the most recent episodes, interview episodes and Dave's here as well!!
Say g'day. What's going on? This is Dave. This is James's cat, Thomas. Thomas. Yep
This is James and James's fish in the background there. Fish, fish, fish. Yeah awesome!