Jacques

Me and Jacque flashing the "W" for West Coast...... that's what they do here ..... literally!

Well, I headed out for about 2 hours on the bike today. The pedal has remained on.... for now. With incident #1 now behind me, I decided it was time to officially name my bike. I decided to name him after the previous owner ... Jacques. However there is one condition. I can only speak French to him "Por Favor". I'm loving Jacques. I can't believe how fast you can get around on a road bike with such little effort. I'm not sure why I was always wasting away on a mountain bike. What a waste.

While heading off for a bike ride earlier in the day, I came across a mobile phone (that's what they call cell phones) up near the curb in the street. I picked it up went through the address book, and snooped around for a bit. Found out the owners name was Max. Then figured the best person to call was "Linda - Mum". She was very happy to get a call from her "son". He had lost the phone a couple days ago when he headed off for a trip. Their home was exactly where I found the phone. It was lucky that batteries weren't dead yet.

The only guy who could get on his board

I biked down to Cott Beach in the afternoon and spent a lazy couple hours there. Took some photos of surfers. After looking through the photos, it seems like there is one guy who just keeps repeating. There were about 30 surfers out there, but I guess only the good ones actually get up on their boards.

I headed back in the evening to catch another sunset. Life is tough.

Freo & a Bike

Well I'm moving in to my new place tomorrow. I'm not sure what I'm going to do on the internet front, so we'll see what happens. Posts may become infrequent until I figure that out.....

Anyhow, I headed down to the port city of Fremantle yesterday. The locals call it Freo. It's a trendy cafe, shopping district built in an area that used to be just brick warehouse. It was some fun times. I walked around a bit and thought I saw the Sydney Opera House. I was very excited.

Unfortunately it was just the Maritime Museum..... Crikey! Major Disappointment. So I then headed off to meet up with my new girlfriend....

Ok. Well technically not. Replace "girl" with "television" .... and "friend" with "host". She still smiled at me. Mind you there might have been another camera directly in front of me. After that disappointment, I headed to the Bourne Supremacy. It premiered last week. I thought it already premiered when I was in Canada a month ago??? Anyway, good movie.

Today, I made the trek out to East Perth to look at a road bike for sale. Based on the RADAR i tried to time my trip so I could bike back in sunshine and not rain. On my way there it looked more like Vancouver, than what I thought Perth was going to be like.

I only got hit hard with wind and rain or about 1/4 of the trip, so not bad, and broke in the new "used" bike. I just hope it doesn't break :)