Aluminium Adventures

Last weekend I spent 14 hours bouncing around in a beat up Series 3 longwheel base Landrover. It wasn't as bad as it sounds. Having never really experience the luxury of travelling long distances in new cars, the rattling and engine noise that prevents speaking wasn't such a problem. Plenty of landscape to look at, didn't see much wildlife though - aside from the flat variety. Picking up the Landy in the first place was quite an adventure. We hired a car at Melbourne airport and headed out to Bayswater, 25km or so out of the city. It was quite a hectic affair finding our way out there with some dodgy map reading going on from the passenger seat I had a chance to practice my ueys. On the way back into the city following the Landy was even worse. I had no idea where I was going and kept losing the Landy (as if that were possible) due to cars cutting in between us and the constant merging and diverging of traffic between one and two lanes on Toorak Rd. Then he got some lights that I missed and it was all over. Driving: do not miss it.

Once we were on the open road it was a steady 80kmph for us, any faster and the thing would have rattled apart. It was all sweet until some wanker decided that we were driving so slowly purely to piss him off and tailgated us for the entire 4 minutes he was stuck behind us before taking the time while he was overtaking us to raise his middle finger and yell obscenities. And people wonder how a straight stretch of road can pose so many risks. With idiots like this on the road you have to wonder why more people don't die. We can only hope that a speed trap got him at some point. Seriously, did he not just take one look at the car and understand?

So, next weekend, I think a bit of peace and quiet is in order. Too many travels and too much money flying out of my purse. This saturday and sunday I will be at uni all weekend writing my essay. My very last essay ever. Until next time.