I never would have guessed that the ride to Adelaide would have brought me such amazing people. I never would have thought that joining a rideshare would turn out to be the greatest thing that happened to me, here in Aussie.
After a lovely evening with Claire and the saddest part of my trip, (saying goodbye to her) I started my journey west to Adelaide. And I started with Maccas (McDonald's), where I met two German girls and two German boys (gotten pretty use to the fact that almost all the internationals I met over here are German). We all climbed in the station wagon and headed for the Great Ocean Road.
"Just cry when you want to see something or have me stop" Julien said. I got to start out as DJ and played them some reggae music. But once Macklemore came on we all started singing. I got to teach them some English slang and they loved asking what certain words and phrases meant. In return they taught me my favorite German word to say, klettverschluss (it means Velcro). They would say things that made me laugh like; 'lets make party' or refer to their cell phones as 'handys'. On our first night we stayed in a hostel right on the beach in Port Campbell and we had the whole place to ourselves, so naturally we 'made big party'. Haha. I made party a little too big (I will never drink goon again, but I'm a backpacker and that will be hard as it is the only thing we can afford). I can't thank them all enough for helping me out so much that night, but it was like Birk said, "we are traveling together, of course we will be looking out for each other too, it's just what you do". Seriously, thanks guys for holding my hand. The next morning we continued down the GOR all a little tired (me especially). We crossed the Victorian border and ended that day in Mt Gambier, finally to South Australia! A new state and a new time zone. We stayed in an old prison that night and again, had the whole place to ourselves. The next morning we woke up to pouring rain. Joy, thanks again OZ for the great weather.
We drove for about five straight hours that day. Julien and I split the drive. It was a fairly boring drive. No let me rephrase that. It was not very beautiful or fun to drive that road, straight roads and we wouldn't see another car for hours. But inside the car was very fun. Inside that car was always fun. I have grown to enjoy German music, even if I can't understand it. We arrived in Adelaide
that night and booked into another hostel. We went out to dinner that night because none of us felt up to cooking after the long trip. And by 'out' I mean to Dominos pizza, welcome to the life of a backpacker. Convientient that it was a Tuesday night because everything was cheaper, yay for budget eating! Impressed that I could find gluten free pizza there. We went to a park that night with our boxes of pizza and we met some more Germans that would continue on with Julien to Carins the next day. After that we went back to out hostel tired as hell but not before stopping at a bottle shop for one last box of goon (not for me though). We stayed up all night talking and playing games.
Saying goodbye to the guys was sad. I will miss them very much, I know it was only three days but they felt like family to me. I am actually still with the girls, can't bring myself to leave them. We spent the day yesterday hiking and looking through pictures of our road trip and laughing at all the good fun we had. God, it's going to be so hard to leave them, I thought. So I guess it's a good thing I am not!
Me being spontaneous:
So tomorrow I was suppose to get on a train to head up to the Barossa valley, to work at a winery, but I really didn't leave this family. And I have always wanted to go I Perth. So when the girls jokingly said I should join them in a road trip to Perth, I looked up and thought, why not? And why not? I love road trips, I love these girls, and a couple more German guys? sounds like fun. So just like that my plans have changed and tomorrow I will become part of a three (maybe four) car caravan trip to Perth that will take us about one week. Let the good times roll on!
Cheers
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