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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Thursday 27 February 2003 (Day View) – Depart from Rossville

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27.02.2003 – Thursday 27 February – I leave Rossville

Morning

• I spent most of the morning wasting time. I then packed everything as fast as I could, just finishing by midday – which was when Silas might come.

Evening

• Silas arrived around one, and we packed my stuff into his car. It all fit, although there sure wasn’t much room left over. I hugged Mum goodbye, shook hands with Dad, and without further ado Silas and I drove off. We drove the four and a bit hours to Cairns and headed for Pam’s place. She’s one of Silas’s friends, and it ended up that Jack lives with her, so I knew someone there too. We had the traditional coffee and waited for Silas’s younger brother Eric to arrive.

Night

• Eric, Silas and I went down to the night markets where we had some dinner. Some vegetarian ravioli later and we headed back to Pam and Jack’s place where Silas and I stayed the night. We tried to get their computer to work before we went to bed but were unable to. Silas had a very poor sleep due to the coffee he’d had, but I slept well.