The Great Meander
• 1/2/2008 - Attacked by Stephen King
I will get around to doing a Melbourne (which rocks) update but first . . .
Rented a car to drive the scenic coastal road. When I got to Bell's Beach (you all remember that movie you loved to hate, Point Break) the car started to act funny. Thought it was just an abberation so we continued on. Big mistake! had a few more instances of the car accelerating under breaking. This car will now be forever referred to as Christine in honor of the timeless Stephen King novel of the same name. All jokes aside, quite nerve wracking. Here we are along this beautiful coast hours from anything but bloated resort towns. I say bloated because the 800 person town had 10K people in it for summer vacation. No rental car placer in sight and an inability to duplicate the strange vehicular manifestations (nicely multi-sylabic huh?!?!?). Decision time. Four hours into a 3 day drive to Adelaide,I did what any bad soldier would do and retreated. We ended up swapping cars at this wierd ghost airport called Avalon before heading another 50km to Melbourne. Got our same rooms back at the Lindrum and will be flying to Adelaide this afternoon.
As the Elmer likes to say . . . thats all folx
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