Monkeyrockworld

Murphy’s Law is dooming my life recently, but finally, thanks God, I saw the light!! We were so bored of being in Melbourne we decided to rent a car and head off for  a few days to check the Great Ocean Road out. So that’s what we did, get out in the morning, rent a car for three days, get in it, drive off to Geelong and from there down to Torquay. It was a lovely, sunny day, finally. We were kind of pissed for the fact we still had to wait for the bloody van, but at the end of the day, we were finally riding. Out of the city, out of money, out of luck, exactly like that line from Iron Maiden’s “Running Free”.
So lucky that, after we paid for a rental car, and after we set foot on a nice beach, I get a call and the new that my van is finally ready to be picked up. I almost can’t believe what I’m hearing after such a long, boring, exhausting wait. Like all of my chances of leaving Melbourne and starting living the Australian adventure I had in mind  were still non existent. I totally freaked out on the beach, jumping and screaming around the rocks like a madman in a sanitarium’s room… what to do now? It was thursday and if we didn’t have picked up the van within the next day, we would have lost the chance to enjoy it during the weekend. I was so excited about driving my own new car that I quickly decide to cancel the rental, get back to Melbourne to pick it up the next morning, pack everything in and leave the next day back to Apollo Bay, and then up to the Grampians National Park, to try to savour a bit more of this fantastic Vicctoria State.

And that’s exactly what we did and what we are doing: this is just a small update to tell everyone that I am alive and still kicking, but I also have been driving a lot and had problems just even finding some electric plugs to recharge my laptop. But thanks Mr. Mc Donalds, sometimes, it’s even easy for me to steal a wi fi connection and tell you, my readers, that the race is on. We are driving up to Cairns, trying to get there in the first half of may, and from there we’ll start a mammoth drive across the continent to end up in Perth. And after that, I’ll decide if quit with Australia, or just take a small holiday in Malaysia and come back here again to hit the west coast. Work, as always, is still far away and I wish someone would send an helping hand, because being poor as I am is not the best feeling, at the moment. Talk to you very soon, I’m off to Canberra now.