SYDNEY - USA visas and customs

First port of call was Sydney and catching up with our old mate (no offence intended) Keith.

After tackling the US embassy, where we were shuffled from one counter to another and being kept waiting about 2 hours we left, with high hopes that our visas would arrive in Mentone on time.

Dinner gave us an opportunity to catch up with Keith's friend Peter French and family. Interesting dinner conversation revolved around French's fetish for female pubic hair and the trouble he has at US customs when he brings several thousand samples into their country. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when he invites the customs officers to examine, smell and even taste his collection. But, he tells them, they may not xray the hairs. Why, you might ask? It's because French is using them to determine if his company can diagnose breast cancer from examining female hair samples, but because the samples cannot have been treated or dyed in any way, the hairs from the heads of the female patients cannot be used.




MELBOURNE- FAMILY AND FRIENDS

In Melbourne we took the opportunity to spend some time with family and friends and celebrated Chris's 50th yet again, together with our 30th anniversary.