I'm NEVER going to Australia!!!

[auld argonian]

Get thee to the bookstore and pick up a copy of "In A Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. Bryson also wrote "A Walk In The Woods". Both are very funny...not in a ROTFLMA way but in a more subtle and literate way.

"Sunburned" is a chronicle of his travels in Australia. In "Woods" he hikes the Appalachian Trail and the comic hook is the ever present possibility that he's going to encounter a bear. In "Sunburned" he's constantly worrying about encountering one of the seemingly hundreds of venomous critters that inhabit the Land Down Under.

You'll love it.

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[davedove]

While I can rationally think about these spiders and whether or not they are a threat to humans, I would still freak a bit if I stumbled across one of them.