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Australian motorcycle riders at Vester 2008-09-12 - Vester, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener. VESTER HAS BECOME A VERY COSMOPOLITAN CITY. After today, Vester has had tourists from every state in the Australia but four--Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and South Australia, which has six states in the Commonwealth. Rhett Kelly, left, is a resident of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and Adam Bell is from Perth, Western Australia. The two were on a cycling trip of the U.S. which has taken them from Pennsylvania to NY, over to Wisconsin, and back down to Vester. "We're aren't sure were we're fixing to go next," Rhett Kelly said, "but probably into Tennessee, maybe to Florida." Kelly learned to properly mumble the Adair County language while he played basketball with Wes Irvin, at Lindsey Wilson College. "I made a conscious effort to speak like people in 'C'lumya' and 'Luvil,' do," he said. He even had to learn to listen and talk faster, he said. He got 60% of his undergraduate degree at Columbia before transferring to Martin, TN. While in Vester the pair visted Marshall Irvin, Wes Irvin's dad, and Wes' cousin Bradley Irvin. Rhett Kelly asked that no one tell his mother that he's riding a motorcycle. "It was hard enough on her when my speech changed," he said. Some notes: Wes Irvin visited Kelly in Brisbane. Perth, a city of 1.2 million, is called the "most isolated city in the world," according to Adam Bell. And Adam Bell's nickname in Vester is "Mick Dundee," though Bell makes no claims having ever rassled crocs. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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