I had a great time with both Alisdair and Erin from Melbourne. They were
really hospitalable and welcoming. It was time already to continue
planning for my trip and thus i bought a ticket to New Zealand. Uhm,
actually I bought it in Tasmania. I wanted to do a long stopover in
Sydney, as it was one of my dreams as a child, to visit the Sydney Opera
House. Erin and Al left me in the airport, and I had my flight at 6am so
i had a long time to wait, and a happy time looking for some emergency
couch in Sydney -it was the toughest place to find a couch in-.

Leaving Lismore wasn't that easy after spending so much time with Rosie,
her sister, and her dad. We spend five lovely days in the middle of
nowhere in northern New South Wales, full with tiny wallabies, koalas
with diseases, vegetarian food, and liters and liters of rain. On Monday
she drove me to the intersection where i could hitch to (presumably)
Byron Bay. A girl with dreadlocks picked me up. She wasn't as chatty as
the other drivers who I met before. She only began to talk passionately
about her trip some years ago when she travelled around Aussie, hitching
as well, in the middle of the Northern Territory. She also told me that
she was going to see some friends in Bellingen, and (surprise) her son.