Saturday, April 01, 2006

Chapter 79 - Australia - A retrospective

For our hero the journey up the East Coast has been a true journey of self-discovery and he and Hoots have made some great new friends.

It must be recorded that his pre-travelling prejudices would have prevented him giving the time of day to at least two of them and it is to be hoped that he will learn this lesson (and apply it) when he gets home (but we doubt it).

The tale of Oz cannot be summed up by the places they have been or the things they have done but by the entourage they have acquired:-

Gordon, the jolly glaswegian boozer
Pablo, a man not designed by God to leave West London but a true trier
Curly, a determined pursuer of lost causes
Sundance, a pill popping muscle bound freak
The Doctor, a man of astonishing willpower to resist the ladies (we just hope his girlfriend is worth it)
Lockerz, a true alpha female, always good for a laugh (except when Hoots makes her cry)
Beth, the yellow trousered girl from Bangkok who captured Hoots' heard (he has written a song about her!)
Lids, the cutest traveller in the Southern Hemisphere (except when she is being the grumpiest)

Collectively a great team, they are missing them already.

In possession news Hoots left his wallet in the taxi to the airport.

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