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February 28, 2007
Familiar faces from a land far away...
I'd been chatting recently in a few emails to Carolyn and Joe as I'd noticed that their journeys around the east coast had been bringing them closer and closer to Alice Springs. We exchanged numbers and I told them to ring me when they found themselves in the area. I got a text message last week saying that they were in Mt.Isa, were leaving soon and that they'd see me in a few days. Of course, if you've read their blog, you'll probably already know that they ended up spending a few more days in Mt.Isa dealing with the campervan.
Three days later, I got another text saying that they were leaving, and this time it wasn't a joke. True to that, they showed up in town after just a few days of travel (pretty good timing for a campervan from Isa to Alice). It's always pretty sweet to see good friends again and meeting up with friends on the other side of the world.
I set them up in our backyard which is easily spacious enough to accomodate several vans, let alone their lonely '78 Hiace. Almost immediately Joe set about taking apart his engine to find an exhaust leak that had been robbing their van of performance, not to mention blowing out more hot air than a speaker at the Republican convention.
I was doing a week of night shifts, which worked out well, cause it gave me a chance to show Joe and Carolyn around Alice. Twenty minutes later (joke), we sat down and had some beers, which is easily on par to a town tour - or at least a cultural one.
It's been good times having them around. We took the opportunity of a nice cool morning to climb Mt.Gillan and even had it done and breakfast cooked by 10am. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you get up at sunrise. Personally, I've always preferred accomplishing lots by the time the sunrises, not afterwards.
The 'freeloaders' as Max calls them, took a 3 day tour down to Uluru, Kata Tjuta and King's Canyon and are back now, preparing to venture forth on their tour of Oz. I think they're leaving early Tuesday morning, which of course means that we're having a big ole BBQ on Monday night.
Good luck on your future travels, guys, and maybe I'll catch up with you on the west coast!
Posted by Dr.Unk at February 28, 2007 5:03 AM
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