G'day! So sorry for the long silence since my first post, but I've been quite pre-occupied with my new surroundings. First, let me back up and explain my situation. My name is Dave Saltzman and I'm looking for adventure. 2008 left me dry mouthed and ready to wet my lips with the ocean spray wafting over the gunnels of a oil tanker or the condensation on the window of an artic snowmobile speeding towards the pole.

Instead I found myself nearing the new year with little promise and a hefty bill from my rare coin obsession. My beard had been going through some disturbing fluctuations and I couldn't find the right length that pleased most of my lady callers. I was lonesome.

As luck would have it, I recieved word of an opportunity to escape the desolate New York winter for a desolation of another kind. I was on my way to Australia! But lo, this wasn't your mum's australia. It wasn't some "Shrimp on the barbie", "let's have a game of cricket" type of thing. When I was 10 I saw a movie called "Crocodile Dundee" and it changed my life. I decided this was my chance to become what I knew I always could become. So now I find myself in Kalgoorlie Australia, sitting in a dimly lit room. More on this waning gold mining town later, but for now I can tell you my adventure has turned soulful. After a 50 hour plane, train, car, bus, foot, camel, small australian servant trip, I awoke in the blazing western Australian sun. And I realized that I had found adventure..... but was now looking for something much greater. In this dry desolate place, women appeared to me as little pools of life. I had found adventure and now it was time for me to find Love.


(or at least a lonely mining woman who wanted to hold me in her scrap metal roughed hands.)