Oh that's so cool! He's only been to Australia once, and he only came to Sydney, which is an 8-hour road-trip south of me, so, I never met him.
One thing that I've been doing is attending Supernova, an Australian convention. They're in Brisbane (which is my closest capital city, it's only a 90 minute train ride away) every November, and I've been attending, every year that I could.
I've met (and shaken the hands of) 4 past Rangers. Actually, this last year, one of the Australian actors was there (because they film in New Zealand, these days), and I got to chatting with him. We talked all day, we ended up becoming friends, it was such a great experience. He even had one of his old scripts (that he'd hung onto), and he showed it to me. Gosh, that was such a cool moment.
Oh, and this ... one of the greatest moments of my life
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You can tell, when he put his hand on my shoulder to take the photo, my inner monologue just devolved into, "wild screaming".