Australian TT 2006

So this is the beginning,so bare with me, as I learn this blog thing as I go. I am posting the intro to our trip for our initial blog, some of you have already read it, but every story needs a beginning, and this is ours.
Peter and I are the ultimate dreamers, especially whem it comes to exploring the world on our bikes, and this is part one of our fantasy trip. Stayed tuned.

So the bikes are happily bobbing there way to Australia via Singapore, or so we hope, and we plan to meet up with them in Freemantle on the 13th of Feb. and start the T.T. tour of Australia.

We arrived in Perth on the 12th of Feb, after an elongated series of overnights. We actually left Vancouver on Thurs 9th and only went as far as L.A. where we overnighted with good friends Mango and Pat in Laguna Beach, god what a gorgeous place. Fri we were onto Sydney and a labourous 6 hrs at the airport. Sun night we flew to Perth where we were meet by Bob, Peters cousin. It was so nice to see a smiley friendly face.

Just a non updateSo we're fast approaching our 10th day of cooling our heels in beautiful Dawesville waiting to find out if our bikes are ever going to clear agriculture, customs or just plain get unloaded from the ship, or maybe just maybe they'll actually find the container that the bikes were put in. Our trip is quickley getting modified to suit the delay, as at the latest we figured that we'd be on the road by tomorrow. Well thats gone to hell in a handbasket.

Next stop Wagin.
Its just before 8 am on a gorgeous Saturday morning in Dawesville and our bikes are packed and we're off.
After a couple of hissy fits over the phone and via email, and physically going down to where the bikes were being inspected for some obnoxious Canadian soil, we freed them, or rather Peter did.

5 days laterAfter a spectacular morning spent on some of the best twisty and beautifully scenic roads ever Peter and I arrived on our trusty steeds to the bustling metropolis of Melbourne, where the first order of business was to get a new back skin for Peters bike.
A little about our steeds. Peter is on a magnificent exotic, loving known as "Lumpy". It is a Cagiva Elefant, wonderfully red and full of personality, and I'm on "Butts" slang for butt ugly, a super reliable and huge grin factoring Suzuki Vstrom DL650.

After 15 days in the saddle we decided on a down day in beautiful Port MacQuarieHey one and all, this is the second attempt today to update the blog. I finished the original update this morning, went to save and send and the computer crashed. So after collecting my thoughts and insuring my language would be less colourful here we go again.

Outback Australia is not conjusive to blogging so parden the delay and Peter will catch you up. Lumpy is a nudist.All manner of fasteners,fittings and parts and pieces are to be jettisoned. No screw, footpeg or fender is safe from this Harly-esque parts shedding. To curb this trait I have started to place a square of duct tape over repeat offenders. Gray tape on a red motorcycle gives the look of a mosquito ravaged child to which his mother has applied calamine lotion. A constant vigil with the spanners is required.
Tues. March 14 Sunny 30 cel.

So many adventures and so little timeSo Peter left off with us restocking, adjusting chains and the like and getting ready to do our first major bit of Aussie dirt roads to Birdsville.