New Tales and Old Trails
"Crikey, this is good beerhh," I heard, in an unmistakeable Australian accent, as he spoke to his friend. I looked over at them and smiled as I heard the 'r' in the word beer get blended into a drawn out, strange 'h' and combined with other spoken sounds we don't have in our American English. He saw me. We were 'parked' at the bar in Three Barrel Brewing in Del Norte.
"Hey mate," he said to me, "you live around here?"
"Sort of," I answered, "I spend a lot of time in this valley. Where are you guys from in
Australia?"