May 21, 2009
We finally left! At 8:47PM. Egads. After yesterday’s debacle which became a romantic interlude, with our spirits still high and not too dampened by the flood, we managed to get it all together. It took some effort though. We needed to get the racks off of Tomos’s van, find a tray before we left the city, and pack the lot of it into ‘Redcliff’ and piss off for two months. We also found that we couldn’t get the spare seats out of our car. Another bunch of good dudes helped us just across the road from my house at a Bridgestone. I keep thinking we will run into many good people as we go along, and we have proof enough thus far.
We made it to Tom’s house and hopped into the van. Yoshi saw this strange looking man peering at us from a distance. “Tomos?” he asks. No Yosh, just some surly neighbour. “Sure?” Inevitably Yoshi continued to call this stranger Tomos, so now we have two of them. We thought we could go to Supercheap and take off the racks but we ended up heading to a mechanics called Chequered Flags or something like that. My old school bud Andrew had tried to help us at the SC but it didn’t work out. Thanks anyway man! The blokes at CF gave it a good going over, yet yet again we managed to screw about with the bars having too much distance and not knowing until we got the rack, such that we had to take a bit of time back at the Zillmere house sorting it out. On the first night we intended to stay at my father’s in Redcliffe (which explains my original confusion about Haesh’s naming the vehicle. “but my Dad lives there!” “but it sounds so tough. It’s red, and cliff shaped…”) and we still went there. Unfortunately my old man works night, meaning we didn’t get to see him. Hopefully we do tomorrow. I’d hate to leave without saying goodbye. My sweet sister Brodie greeted us, showed us to the food and we tucked in. Delicious! Even though Day 2 hasn’t had much difference to Day 1, in terms of screwing about, we made it through, and we have actually departed. Let’s see how we go!
