Camping in Central Australia and a Hillsong Conference

Last Saturday was my first day back at Sydney airport after a bit of a break. We did a big road trip to Central Australia and took a 3 day camping trip with a bunch of young international backpackers from Alice Springs to Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (Olgas) and Kings Canyon. All went well and had a great time. Time to start planning the next one!

It was then quite a surprise to find that the first visitor I chatted to on Saturday was a young Swiss backpacker who had done the same camping tour as us just 4 days after we did it. She had also travelled with friends up the East Coast and to Darwin, Adelaide and Sydney.

I also came across a couple of French visitors on their way home. The first was a yuong girl who had been on a homestay in Australia for 7 months and loved it. She had also done a couple of short holidays to Bali and NZ. The second was a French couple who had 3 nights in Sydney on their way home after a holiday in Noumea.

On a Qantas flight to Singapore was a friendly young Indonesian lady who now spends most of her time here in Sydney. She had first come to Australia as a 9 year old schoolchild and now works in food technology for a large company.

Travelling home on V Australia was a couple from Ohio, USA who had seen a lot of our country in a short time. In 16 days they had visited Port Douglas, Cairns, Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Melbourne and Sydney. This included a bus trip from Adelaide to Melbourne.

I met a young New Zealander going home after attending the big Hillsong Church annual conference in Sydney. He said there were 30000 people here for the conference from all parts of the world.

Till next week.

Peter