Travel Fiend.
Well, to distract myself from brooding (heh), I got wrangled into TA-ing for a field course for all of next week (24 Sept to 30 Sept) to a place called Buchan. This place is NE of Melbourne a few hours and I had the pleasure of picking up a Kia Carnival minivan this morning expressly rented for the purpose of my Saturday afternoon enjoyment. But seriously, it was rented as one of the field vehicles for the trip; however, never one to let an opportunity go by without bending a rule or two (heh), I took it out for a cruise to (drum roll please...) the Airport! A little way down the road is Moorabin Airport - it's sort of a Springbank crossed with Calgary International type of airport: parallel runways, minimal control, and student pilots! Wah-hoo! The tarmac was populated with lots of Piper Lances, 172s, Warriors, and Slingsby Fireflies with original RAAF paint! Yep, I still love this stuff...A sucker, eh hem, I mean a friend from the other unit thought that she'd like to come along for fun and instead got an earful of airplanes and flying for several hours. I hope I didn't scare her from airplanes for the rest of her life. Mom will enjoy this... I had a lot of fun driving to no where in particular later in the afternoon. The Carnival is like some kind of mobile, wheeled, people warehouse with a well proportioned V6 upfront that easily squeels the tyres around the slightest of corners while playing Dean Martin and Billie Holiday in relative quiet. Whoops...
Other than that, Friday was a 4WD course at the Melbourne 4WD Testing and Proving Ground. It is quite surprising exactly how steep a slope a Toyota Land Cruiser can be driven down while not falling uncontrollably. Really. I reckon it's the vehicular equivalent to a pilot's first spin experience: nothing but sky, then suddenly, nothing but ground!
There's still more Japanese adventures on the way, but they'll likely have to wait until I return from Buchan because I don't think there's going to be any Internet or telephones at our accomodation.
Miss you all...
posted by Kyle @ 07:45
1 Comments:
What fun!!! Wish we were there! The wedding was great, your greetings brought tears to Kim's eyes. The JP didn't show up but that turned out for the good when a pastor from a nearby bible college rushed to the rescue and performed a wonderful ceremony. All is now well and the bride and groom are off to Disneyland. Talk to you when you get back from your field trip. Love you....
m&b
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