Dzido's World Travel Blog

Friday, March 02, 2007

Saying Bye to the Board

Final Km Count: 7964.5km

That is a fantastic amount of driving, if I don't say so myself. I know what you're all thinking, I should have driven in circles on my last day to break 8g's. True, I should have. But I was so worried about messing up the van on the last day. Why? Because last day's seem to be the days when things go wrong! Here's an example.

Paul and I had spent many days in the van making sure that we didn't lock our one set of keys inside. I won't bore you with the logistics of the locks, such as teh fact that the driver's side lock had to be opened from the inside and that the side door was locked manually. Needless to say, it was always a bit of a worry in the back of my mind that the keys would be left in the locked van after the hassles of locking all the doors. So what happens when I spend my last night in the van across from Bondi beach? Door slams and Dzido is caught outside of the at midnight with nothing on but shorts and a toothbrush in hand. I'd locked myself out on my way to the public bathroom. Only on the last day does this stuff happen! After lots of time spent debating about paying for someone to come open the door I decided to try to go ninja on the car. I shimmied open the tiny top window with my palm and was one mesh screen from getting back into my house. After a little bit of punching and ripping and to the astonishment of onlookers, I hoisted myself up into the tiny porthole as cars whizzed by and slipped in. Brilliant

Van: Returned
Surfboard: Sold
Tan: Crisp but fading
Left the van at the car depot yesterday and spent this morning selling my board. It's been emotional and as much as I can't wait to find some powder (or rain?) in Austria, it's sad to think of not living Down Under. Who knows when the next time I get to surf will be! Time for the next adventure though. Let me just say, everyone of you has got to live in a van even for jsut a little. It's quite something else, and as my friend Nate put at the start of my Aussie trip here: "..those guys sleeping in vans are the happiest people in the street." It makes sense to me now.

8 Comments:

  • It is getting close! We finally start packing. Where is the picture of you on the sailing board? Kissing is nice but we wanted some REAL action.

    ps. Will try to remember to bring your ticket to NY. Will try to remember...wil try to remember.....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:44 PM  

  • Well, I guess it's now official. The Aussie leg of this trip is done. We did good little buddy.

    The tears are coming...

    By Blogger Paul T, at 8:19 AM  

  • Have you already find anybody who would like to race around the world with you again? Tell him I will fund $50.00 prize for the winner.

    After my last conversation with our Swiss friends it looked like we might be better off bringing bathing suits there rather then skis as they were there was no snow. I promised them I would pray for a snow storm. Two days ago I got the e-mail from them asking me to stop praying...

    So we should hit some fresh powder somewhere in Switzerland after all.

    Meanwhile I bought the guide of Austria and downloaded German lessons on my iPod.

    Counting hours now...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:00 PM  

  • Sounds like you had a rough time losing that surfboard. But don't worry Dzido, I have good news for you: you don't need a surfboard to ski with you're family! Man, it's so close now.

    Hey are you gonna continue writing this blog after your trip? Cause I really like it, and I find it a good excuse for not studying (kidding!). Maybe you could change the name to like "The Adventures of Super Surfer/skier/guitarist/brother" or something.

    See you soon!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:58 PM  

  • You're dreamy.

    15 days.

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