Welcome to Auski (sounds like AUStralia, not AUdi)

I am now a productive member of society again.  My job equates to glorified gas station attendant/waitress/hotel clerk but it is actually pretty fun.  You get some very interesting folk coming through in a place like this.  Between the miners and the tourists and the truckies, one is never bored with the clientele .

I have my own little room with a TV and a bathroom and private entrance.  It kind of reminds me of what I've heard of hotels in Japan.  Exactly enough room to have a bed and walk to the bed and bathroom with no space wasted.  The view makes up for it though- being next to a national park certainly has its perks.  I will have to wait to do some actual hiking, as I work every single day 8 hours a day right now, but I can ask for a day off in a couple weeks, which is better than when I was working up in the arctic and days off were not an option.  At $18/hr I am making more here than I was at 2 of my last 3 geology jobs.  Scary, hey?  After three months I should have enough for a beater car and some gas money and maybe by then the mining industry will have picked up a little.  

Once I figure out this old computer I will try and post some pictures tomorrow.

Cheers

-A.