Road Trip
“All you need is love”
The plan of action for the way out of Perth turned out to be very similar to the route I took, down towards the Southern Forests and onto Albany. They plan on going to Esperance and taking a few days off down there which is where I’ll be leaving them. When I was in Kalgoorlie I left a bag at the hostel, thought I’d be heading straight back and I didn’t need to be carrying the extra weight into Perth.
I’m going to have to get back to Kalgoorlie so as soon as I get to Esperance I’ll be hitching north. Then back to Norseman and across the Nullarbor back to my bike. In the meantime I’m having a blast with Jamie, his friend Laura and a German guy tagging along for the ride to Adelaide. We started the road trip in dodgy fashion. I left my hostel and got a train to meet the guys. When I got there I realised that I left my camera at the hostel. And not only that but I left it in the common area while I was repacking my bag outside of the room to not wake the others there. Some thieving gypo stole my crisps the day before so I didn’t really have much hope for it still being there when I got back. But when I walked back in, there it was exactly where I left it.
After doing a little shopping we set off southwards. We weren’t even 20km from the city centre when the van came jerking to a halt. Out of fuel! Can you believe that we ran out of fuel in the middle of a city. What are the chances of us making it in the outback! We did have a Jerry Can and withing minutes of coming to a halt we had a lift to a servo and back again. We weren’t held up more than half an hour, which isn’t half bad. People do go out of there way here to help you out when you’re stuck.
After these misadventures the rest of the day went swimmingly. We dropped a Japansese girl off at Pemberton and then went to climb the Gloucester Tree. I did it before but the others hadn’t. Jamie made it halfway up the last time he was here so he had to make it the other half this time round. It was late in the evening when we got there so it was quite and we pretty much had it to ourselves to mess about. We just missed the Valley of the Giants tree top walk which the others are really keen on doing so we continued onto Albany and will return in the morning. Jamie and Laure lived and worked at the backpackers in Albany for 2 months so that where we headed. We called ahead and they said it was cool if we come and se the kitchen – very good of the manager. As I type this everyone else is in bed except me. I’m the only person awake here and I shouldn’t even be in the place!!! It’s been a good day 