Hello everyone,

Tonight is my last night in the United States. I am headed to Sydney tomorrow, it will be 8:05 am on Feb 2nd when I arrive. My last few nights in the states have been great. Lost of drinking, friends and family. Mostly drinking. Tonight I am going to purchase a bus pass that will allow me to travel up and down the East coast of Australia for six months with unlimited usage. It will cost about $250 U.S. which is not bad considering the potential usage. I am excited to travel up to the Great Barrier Reef and down to Melbourne. My sister gave me a copy of lonely planet: Australia and some sleeping pills for the plane. I am sending messages to people on couchsurfing.com to find some places in Sydney to stay, then I will head up the coast.

I want to thank all my friends up in Bellingham. Nic, Jimmy, Schoentag, Graham, Rob, Jesse, Alex, Tim, Alli, Olivia, Rosie, David, Woody, Bill, Alex, Alex, Kevin, Micah and EVERYBODY else I met within the last few months.

Special thanks to Olivia, the other member of Team Shit Show. I pretty much am just going to Australia for shit show training.

And Alli, some day you will have to see Australia with me.

Nic and Jimmy, you guys introduced me to the awesome realm of the Wenatchee people. I owe ya for that.

And of course to the J-conspiracy, considering that we have been dispursed all over the world in the years since high school this is just business as usual.

I plan to be back in August, partially for my birthday, mostly for PAX (which is Setember I guess) but in reality it is because I already miss all of you. I expect a massive homecoming party, start planning now.

Goodnight America, see you in seven months.

P.S. If you want to talk to me over Skype, my username is Jesse.McKane.Wilson