Travel Fatigue

My Austraian trip has been pretty intense to catch with my travel mates found via various backpacker and Scot cal media website. For example, I flew in Melbourne late night, took two tours to finish Melbourne in one day, in order to travel with Philip from Melbourne to  Canberra  (600 km driving) via coast line in 4 days, then I stayed in Canberra 2.5 days to wait for Melody and Javaid to pick me up at Canberra to travel to Uluru/Alice Springs in 9 days (7000 km driving). We three drove almost 1000 km today to drop me at Blue mountains then Melody and Javaid continued another 2-hr of driving back to Sydney. Thanks to all my travelmates being very supportive and considerate during the trips. Hope to see them later. 

I will tour some sites in blue mountains while waiting for my hiking mates to take 2-3 days Six-foot track. I am exhausted but very happy to have a shower and sleep on a real bed after sleeping in a car for 8 nights. After seeing sunrise 8 days straight at 7 am, I am sunrise saturated. I also ate too much bread and tuna/beans cans, and must feed myself something good tomorrow.






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