Friday, August 8th 2008:
I met with this one member of the Family, who knew that I was kept for reasons other than what they were telling me. In light of that, she decided to help me out of their convent. She gave me enough money to buy new clothes, and a plane-ticket that would take me to Sydney, Australia. She also told me that I shouldn't mention her anywhere. I suppose that means she's another name I must not mention in this journal. But you know, it does look like every religion has it's own rogue agent. You have that "el Barto" from Scientology, Marco from the 4400, and now this woman from the Family (who claimed to be over forty, when she didn't look any older than twenty).
Anyway, so I'm now in the plane, headed towards Sydney. On my way to the airport, I managed to catch the news that two giant robots appeared in New York. Now that got me boiled up. So I've seen those dinosaurs on Isla Sorna (as I was told that island was called), but there have been monsters on this planet before that were ten times (if not more) larger than even the largest one on that island. I would have taken pleasure out of seeing a living dinosaur (a lot more if it didn't try to eat me), but knowing that much larger one exists, and the ones in New York were larger,... well, you can understand that bit of my frustration.
Now, I have arrived in Sydney. I don't know much about what's to see here, but I'm sure that now that I'm here I'll find something interesting.
There's this one building here, which reminded me of a scale model of water-waves. I don't know how best to describe it, but I never knew what it is either, until now. It's supposed to be an opera-house. To European standards, that's not what you'd expect an opera-house to look like, but then Australia is an colonised island, or continent, it has been for the better part of the past few centuries. Can't expect it to be an old building on a relatively new land, can I?
While here, I also came across reporters from CNNNN. Funny, as I never heard of that channel until I ended up in Maryland, and suddenly I meet someone who works for it. I must say, the meet with these people was at least more pleasant than when I met that Faux reporter. Come to think of it, my stay here has been without many, if any incidents. Very much unlike my stay in the States. There isn't much that I know about Australia, nor anything I really want to see, but if things stay the way they do right now, I'm sure that I'll stay here, to borrow from what I heard people say, "a wee bit" longer.
In my hotel, I met with a group of people who claim to be from a place called Sandy Bay. To me, the name of that place meant nothing, but there was something that I overheard them talking about that got my interest. Apparently, they were headed to a place called Prehistoric Park. After that museum in Montana and Isla Sorna, I've had all the prehistoric feed that I needed, but this one guy, Tobey as his friends kept calling them, claimed to have invented this machine that made the building of that park possible. He didn't appear much older than me, or any more eccentric than I always imagine an inventor to be, I therefor wondered if this guy is serious. Out of plain curiosity, I asked that Tobey what that invention may be. He didn't tell me. Instead, he told me that I should come to that park, so I'd see for myself. Upon telling them I wouldn't know where to go, he and his friends offered to take me along with the ride. Well, I suppose it's nothing I haven't seen before, but still it'd be nice to make friends with some of the natives around here as well.
Additionally, I send mails to Erica and Jess, tell them that I've returned from my trip to the moon, so they need not worry about anything. I can only hope that those T.E.C. people didn't try to make contact with them, so they'd track me. I also received a message from Hana. She said that T.E.C. was an agency to which she and her little league had no access, but since they got that USB-stick from me, and here I quote: "they inadvertently downloaded Tron into their systems". In doing so, not only did they find out that I didn't have the time-machine on me, as I apparently originally did, so I was no danger to anyone, or even not so important anymore. Still, I'm a human life that's to be left alone, as well as the people close to me. Because I helped them hack into the government's most secure systems, they even helped the ones close to me to be left alone. That's all well, but I still don't understand what got anyone to think I even had a time-machine with me. Unless that stupid little mechanical thing I found in England was a time-machine, but I doubt it. Then again, now that I think about it, if that thing was indeed a time-machine, then that would explain how those T.E.C. people knew I had it, as it was examined when I was going through customs in Florida. Still, those are mere guesses. I'm sure it wouldn't have been a stupid question when I asked Hana at what point I even had a time-machine.
Saturday, August 9th 2008:
Right now, I am on my way to Prehistoric Park. I must say that this park must be located more deeply into the lands, as we've been driving for hours. Meanwhile, I got to hear the names of Tobey's friends as well. There's his girlfriend Dina, his best friend Russ, and his cousin (and Russ's girlfriend) Sacha. From their conversations, I am to understand that there's this other girl, Elizabeth, who tried to invent some things as well, but only for personal gain. In the world as it is, that doesn't particularly surprise me. But anyway, it was Tobey's invention that's now used to make the world a better place, not Elizabeth's. Tobey, unlike his friends, is a little modest about that, and I don't blame him. Only a narcist would believe of himself that he truly changed the world. One needs his/her friends and/or family to tell him. But that's just my opinion.
I really wonder what that invention is. A more powerful version of holographic projections? I mean, I heard of such things, but right now it's still to obviously unreal. It still looks like those CGI effects you see in the movies. When I asked that, particularly Russ seemed to think that was funny. But when Sacha mentioned the incident in San Francisco after a similar attempt for an amusement park was made, it got me a little weary. She mentioned San Francisco, which is California. When on Isla Sorna, I remembered an incident in which a Tyrannosaurus was running rampant in California. Is she referring to the same incident? If so, does that mean that I'm in on something like back on Isla Sorna?