Finally VROOM VROOM!

Well the bike thing went exactly as planned, NOT! On the saturday my mate still didn't have his money (it's wednesday now and he still doesn't have it... I feel for him!) so that saturday we went to the bike shop with the plan to drive away that day. After some haggling we made a deal. I lowered the price by $200 and got a new helmet, lock, rain motor jacket, cold weather gloves and 2 tailbags + rack. In short; everything I need to get going!

Great I can't wait to ride this baby. And then I tried to transfer the money. Guess what; In Australia banks don't do transfers on weekends... So I had to walk home and come back monday... $%!@

But oh well it ain't all bad, I knew my deal and I knew monday I would get my bike. After making it a nice weekend I came to the shop and that morning I called the bank and they couldn't assure me that the money would come in instantly into their account. So to not take any more chances of delays I went to the bank and got the money out in cash! WOW, I've never held that much bills in my life!

And I was off. The lock and helmet would come in tuesday, but I could borrow a helmet, so I went driving for hours. Amazing! The first 5 minutes took some getting used to again and then I remembered why it was worth all the hassle, money and mainly impatience.

It's now Wednesday and a lot of people that I know have to move out the hostel because of high season (Grand Prix) and fumigation. I already planned on leaving with the bike so I'm a lucky bastard again. Also because when I came to pick up the helmet and lock yesterday I asked for a maintenance schedule. The boss didn't have it but offered me a free air filter cleaning and oil change. This morning he seemed to regret that offer, but "a man a man, a word a word" we would say in dutch.

I'm staying now at another hostel with a girl I met here and just having a nice relaxing day before taking of to my trip towards the festival. Driving with quite some stuff and a girl on the back in traffic hour was a bit stressful, but everything went fine. Time to get some more driving experience, but I honestly can't wait leaving Melbourne with the bike and driving some more remote country roads!