Saturday, February 26, 2011

Melbourne

Tonight is my last night in Melbourne and its been a very interesting couple of days... I flew in and rented an SUV to carry the 26 boxes being shipped here for Samudra.  Melbourne is sort of a European style city.  Normally I don't mind driving, but driving in a city is one of the few things that is super stressful for me and one of my least favorite tasks.  Melbourne people have a very different psychology than Australians that I have met throughout the rest of the country and they definitely hold themselves in very high regard.  However, I made some wonderful friends here and really connected with some great people.  But the reality is that being in a city and being away from surf is not a reality that I can exist in very well.  Driving in Melbourne is intense!   There are trams running right through the streets (San Francisco style from what I am told) and sometimes when you're driving, you're going right on top of the tracks, parallel to where a tram would be going.  I still don't know what you're supposed to do if a tram shows up on the tracks while you're driving along in the other direction!  Also, they have a unique driving maneuver here call "hook turns"  I'll explain this one from the perspective of American driving (driving on the right hand side) because the maneuver is so confusing on its own that for American readers trying to picture it from the left hand side might melt your brain.  Imagine you come to a light and are planning to turn left across oncoming traffic, BUT instead of pulling into the left hand turning lane, you have to pull into the far right hand lane, wait until all the cars going straight from both directions have gone through, then make the left turn!  But wait, that's not the best part!  I've been here four days now spending large parts of my days driving all around the city and I just found out about the hook turns today!  I've been doing it completely wrong for four days and had no idea!  I can't believe I didn't have a major crash (or a smash as its called here).  Alas, that didn't last long.  Finally today I was backing out of a narrow alleyway and there was a 1 meter high pole that was below my view out the rear window and I smashed right into it!  Then I realized that I had forgotten to lock my car earlier and that my iPod had evaporated... oh well, today was a major lesson in non-attachment.  Can't wait to get back to Dunsborough, nature and waves!  So excited to get on that plane tomorrow!

Good news from today- Vitamix has agreed to let me keep the vitamix they have let me use for the demos on the tour... this is awesome, especially as vitamixes cost over $1000 in Australia!  Stoked!

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Cacao Dance Party

Wow, what a night last night!  Rocked up to the cacao party in Sydney with David Wolfe and 300 other wild people, downed 5 cacao drinks, 1 brownie, 1 piece of cacao cake, cacao mousse, and 2 cacao coconut cayenne ice creams and spent the next few hours dancing with every other chocolate charged person there.  I definitely found my cacao limit and had a great time doing it!  Today was the last David Wolfe day in Sydney, then Tuesday we are off down to Melbourne.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

On and On

Another great David Wolfe event tonight in Sydney with 300+ people, but starting to feel the wear and tear of the tour life... went all out on 5 hours sleep from 530 AM, just getting back now at 1230 AM and a huge day awaits me tomorrow.  Good thing I am in line with my purpose and loving every moment! :)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

East Coast Tour Update

I've been on the east coast for 8 days now and what an 8 days it has been!  Zane and I had incredible success selling the Samudra superfood line, receiving orders of $1000 or more from every single store we set foot in!  Then we had a booth at a David Wolfe evening event in Brisbane followed by a whole day workshop the next day.  We picked up a Vitamix in Brisbane which we're traveling with, so I've been able to have absurdly pleasing blended drinksThen we drove two hours south to Byron Bay, where we scored fun waves in the most crystal clear light blue amazing water with baby dolphins cruising through the line up before going to that day's David Wolfe talk in Byron.  Byron is amazing!  The people are beautiful, all super-fit and the average level of consciousness there is very high.  The weather is warm and tropical and reminded me a lot of Costa Rica.  I can definitely see myself returning there in the future for an extended stay.  Then it was time to move on- an 11 hour drive down through torrential rain which rivaled the craziest Costa Rican rains I have ever experienced back down to Sydney.  The tour continues!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Massive Awakening

Sitting here at the David Wolfe event in Brisbane, just having bought his new Hawaiian Superfood Formula, Blue Green Algae coconut crisps and Amazonian Chocolate and having received a Quinton Sea Plasma Nectar shot from David earlier this afternoon, I have had a massive realization that is making me ecstatic- Superfoods make me SO HAPPY, they are the only thing I ever want to spend money on!  I am in a state of Bliss!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

East Coast Tour Update

Monday morning I landed in Sydney at 6 AM, fresh off a red-eye flight and a whopping 1.5 hours sleep.  We picked up 10 massive boxes of Samudra product and promo gear in Zane's (Samudra East coast contact who will hopefully be moving out to Dunsborough soon) Land Rover.  We spent the day in Manly (Sydney suburb) with Zane's family and then Zane left at 6 AM the next morning to make the 10 hour drive north to Byron Bay, a mini Hawaii.  Sydney was interesting- it was a major shock to go from super-rural coastal Dunsborough into a major city... I definitely know which I prefer and its not the concrete jungle.  Today we worked our way north from Byron, eventually finishing off on the Gold Coast in Surfer's Paridise, which is very Miami-esque, with massive high rise buildings along the shorline.  We saw several new accounts today and all of them are frothing (stoked) on the Samudra products, which is awesome!  In one of the shops, I happened upon a book co-written by my amazing Auntie Evelyn- You are world famous! :) This is going to be an incredibly successful trip.  Tomorrow we're hoping to score some waves early right out in front of the hotel before heading north to Kirra and on to Brisbane, where the first David Wolfe event will take place on Friday.  Big action is happening!

Monday, February 7, 2011

PER to SYD

I'm in Sydney now, about to make a 12 hour drive up to Byron Bay to begin the David Wolfe Australia tour...

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Green Smoothies

Here's my newest video I've made at Samudra- Green Smoothies are for Everyone!