An appropriate recount of my road trip to Melbourne: Part 1

Well that really was one unbelievable weekend. My first all-bro road trip, I got to see Melbourne (which is an amazing city, I wish we could have spent more time there) and there aren't really words to describe how incredible the Great Ocean Road is. I put pictures up on facebook but they don't really capture just how incredible everything was.

First off, I'm so glad we drove. We were initially debating whether or not to just fly, but decided to rent a campervan, which turned out to be the giant purple and green van that is too tall to make it into parking garages. But regardless we started driving out of Sydney around 1pm on Friday. And yes, when it was my turn to drive I did start on the right side of the road. Took some getting used to, but it was weirder that the wheel is on the right side of the car than anything else.

Friday night we drove about two miles back into the woods in this national park and found a random spot to sleep for the night, which actually worked out pretty well. We had our first wild wombat sighting, along with a decent number of wallabies and kangaroos. The van has a fridge and gas grill inside it, so we basically survived the weekend on sausages, chips and tim tam's. Which I will be attempting to bring home in excess. Found out that the "penthouse" on top of the van, while supposedly is meant to house two people, does not have enough room for two dudes.

Saturday morning we woke up around eight and got on our way. After driving for about eight hours on Friday we were about an hour and a half outside of Melbourne, but our destination for the day was the Great Ocean Road and that runs along the south eastern coast of Australia, about an hour outside of Melbourne. We rented a GPS from the car rental company, and when it was my turn to drive through the city we still only took one wrong turn, so it was definitely nice to have. Just driving through Melbourne displays how nice of a city it is.

More to come...