Short post today. It deserves elaboration, but I'm just going to put out there that I've found Australians to be friendly beyond explanation and generally happy people. One anecdote: On the same trip to Brighton that got me those car pics from my earlier post, I witnessed two girls in their early teens skipping gleefully down the sidewalk. Not a skip here and there but unrelenting, long-distance skipping from the moment I glimpsed them out of the side window of the car to the moment they disappeared from view behind me - a good twenty seconds, with no end in sight. Clearly, Skippy is not just a bush kangaroo. I'd have taken video footage had I not been driving. I haven't seen such a blatant gesture of childhood innocence since I bought a glass of lemonade from a group of children on Nantucket in the summer of 2005.