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The Lost Boys
Welcome to our blog! We will be writing about our adventures throughout Europe over the next half year (or longer). In case you read our title and thought "Lost Boys, wtf?" The Lost Boys are Peter Pan's followers who do not want to grow up. In order to stop the process of growing up and avoid responsibilities the Lost Boys escaped to Never Never Land. In our case Europe is our Never Never Land, a place to escape from growing up, from getting jobs, from becoming real people and having a shit ton of fun along the way!

Mark is the bobble head of the infamous Mark Bradford, father of the Bradford family. The Bradford family took me in under their wing while I lived in Indiana and so I thought I would take a piece of the along with me on this trip.

So if you find yourself being a grown up with responsibilities and are bored at work or at home, your escape is only a click away!

Thanks for reading!

-Jamie and Michael


Friday, June 15, 2012

Making Moves, Port Douglas.


Good news, the blog is back!  Well if only for this one post…Anyhow just given those out there who may or may not still follow check this blog.  It has been a little over 7 months now since Jamie and I arrived in the ‘Land Down Under.’  Other than a little bit of sight seeing around Victoria, we have mostly been bumming around Melbourne town.  The biggest adjustment to living in Australia for myself would have to be the cost of living.  One of the first nights out I bought a round of 9 shots in celebrating Jamie’s birthday, you can believe my amazement when I got the bill for $120!  Especially after coming from Thailand where everything was much cheaper than the US or Europe.  I digress…After working and bumming around Melbourne I have decided to move back to the beach.  I am currently living in Port Douglas, Queensland, on the Northeast corner of Australia along the Great Barrier Reef.   



So far things are going well, I arrived two days ago got settled in and got a job within a couple hours.  With the cost of living being so expensive and Uncle Sam knocking every month for his student loan repayments it was a huge relief I could find work asap.  So far I have been sailing, bbq’n roo’s, beach bumming and sun burning.  Although on my beach run this morning it was alarming to see a dead string ray washed ashore with two massive bite marks on it, which only reminds one of the creatures lurking close to the beach.  So far so good though, we will see what the next couple months have in store for me. 
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  1. CarolJuly 17, 2012 at 6:29 AM

    Okay, if you would have told me that someday I would be reading a blog from my eldest son living in a town in Australia where he didn't know a soul I would laugh. Could this be my same son who refused to go to the bathroom at school, when he was a kindergartener, because "there might be a first grader in the bathroom" or that the same child when he was in middle school spent the entire, UW Parkside soccer camp, week holed up in his room, other than the field time, because he did not know anyone else. You have come a long way Michael and have grown in so many ways! Amazing...

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