the lady who swallowed a fly

so annemaree sensibly suggested after my last post that perhaps ro and i could catch the ghan back to adelaide after riding the highway....seemed like a possible option and when you go to the ghan website you get this cool click-clacking noise of a train hitting the tracks and these pictures about how its a once in a lifetime train trip....so i was thinking, bugger the cost (coz its a bit more expensive than the vline cattle train i used to catch from warrnambool to melb) and did a bit more investigation.

but then i discovered that according to the people who put the vehicles on the ghan, that a motorbike is not a vehicle unless its on a trailer, and a trailer is not allowed to be by itself but must be attached to a car, and as i said to annemaree, i'm pretty sure there's a clause in there somewhere about having an old lady who swallowed a fly in the vehicle....

so it's no ghan for us and looks like we'll be riding back - possibly doing longer stretches of riding on the way home.


but in more nerdy book news, i bought the lonely planet guide to central australia today, complete with 62 maps. i'm going to nerd it up and memorise it later on tonight - now that's a whole bunch of happiness :)