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06-01-2010, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Forgive me for the long delay in posting this, even so it will be short but I realize I'm being a pig not having done this sooner.
Anyway, as a lot of you know I've spend the better part of 2009 in Australia visiting as a tourist on a work and holiday visa. The FPV backpacker trip where I didn't stay at a hostel once thanks to the support and help from fellow Ford enthusiasts. I wanted to write a long note about all my experiences and activities I took part in Australia, New Zealand and around the South Pacific but the proverbial sheet has hit the fan upon my return home. Things are a bit crap so I'll save the good stories for better times. For now I would really like to thank WHOOSHA the most. The man is a legend, the whole family is awesome and welcomed be like a bastard child into their lives. For that I thank them from the bottom of my heart. To the rest, and you know who you are, I will thank individually soonish as soon as I get my life back on track in the good ole US of A. For anyone reading this abroad thinking about doing something similar... Go for it! You will probably have a blast, just keep in mind it ain't cheap. Best of luck, and Thanks! --Russ
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07-01-2010, 08:25 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: St Clair..N.S.W
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Might come over your way sometime...??
NOTHING like a local to show you around...
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07-01-2010, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: In Da Bush, QLD
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Mate, so pleased to see you enjoyed yourself - pleased to have been a very small part of your journey.
Come back one day and visit us agin.
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07-01-2010, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: In my own little world..Everyone here knows me :)
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Glad to read you made it home safe Russ..
Sad I never got to meet you...next visit hey? Cheers Colleen
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Bear with a sore head
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Adelaide
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Did you ever make it to SA? We would have loved to have taken you for a cruise in the F6X!
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Between 2nd and 5th gear
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 shall we say one you may see once a week on a wednesday night . left melb at 3am had him at the SA rail head at 1100 am, even went the old way down the hill past the Eagle, then had my ever help full taxi driver give us the 15min. tour of all your major attractions on the way to the airport ( mental picture of Yanky tourist hanging out taxi window takeing happy snaps along the way ) :togo: had him eating his way thru the Virgin lounge ( thats Virgin blue airlines  : ) by 1.00pm landed back in melb. at 430pm, back home to my spare room in down town Cranbourne with his head still spining by 6 pm.Seriously though, it was a pleasure having you stay for the short time you were here, hope you get your house in order soon and do the proper write up here on your journeys in Auss. cheers Whoosha
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The Thank You Thread - My Travels in Australia
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