Our trip up to Nimbin March 2012

We had a very eventful trip.
First I lost my Internet connection with dodo ,(I was just so frustrated)
We had a party here for Rozle on the Monday night, 18 people attended it was a very happy night,Rozles boots were very wet as he had. Ridden from Melbourne in the pouring rain , so dad in his wisdom tried to dry out his boots with the hot air gun,yes you quest it he set them on fire and they melted so dad had to give him his Aldi boots as we are going to ride up with him to the gold coast.
Leaving early on Tuesday morning we road to Bendemeer and met up with Frank who was on a tour with Rozle in Europe also our trip in New Zealand
Had a great night but into bed about 8-30
Next we again leave about 8-30 am as we are riding to Nimbin, as Rozle wants to meet up with friends, so he books us into the YHA about 3klms from town and up a mountain, he was going to stay in a tepee ,We arrive about 4pm Dad and I had a sleep out Pauline and Neil had the garden room(they reckon it was the stables) the bed was jammed up against the wall and very lumpy, no where to hang our coats and no overhead light or power points and a curtain over the glass door.
We put our clothes on the floor as there was. NO where else,had a lift into town and we were picked up at 8pm to go back that is when the fun started.Dad was trying to find a place for accommodation on the iPad then lifted it up by the cover and it fell down, he has broken the screen but it still is working ok, I was not impressed
Dad has a bad cough from a cold he picked up in NZ we get into bed and dad coughs and coughs, then I am bitten on the head through my hair then my legs scratch scratch cough cough.
The bed rolled into the centre hanging onto the sides so we don't fall together more bites ,I am now distressed no where to run or sit.Dad is cough cough, waking the young ones .can hardly wait for morning it is a very long night ,turn on the bed lamp, cockroaches running over the ceiling then seeing all the bite marks on my legs my head is so itchy
Morning arrives to a great relief Pauline and I compare bite marks, Neil is hairy dad just coughs.
Rozle did not stay in his Tepee he spent the night with friends in Nimbin on the beer.
We have a quick shower we shook all our clothes as we did not want any more bed bugs or cockroaches ,Went to Nimbin town for breakfast ,we said good bye to Rozle as he was heading further up the coast on his own.
We head off to Dorrigo at a lovely pace had lunch at Jose place a little cafe and headed off to Bellingen we are riding down the big mountain and the back wheel goes all wobbly, we stop and find a horse nail in the brand new tyre, so on the side of the road dad tries to fix it, first time the plug would not fit so Neil gave him another to try, of course the glue had gone hard .Lucky dad had a small compressor which he pumped the tyre up.We went slowly down the mountain until we reached Bellengin where he put more air in the tyre, stayed at the imperial hotel which was luxury after Nimbin and had dinner at the hotel it was a relaxing night,
Leaving again at 8-30we head for Kaurah as we have stayed there before, we are going about 120klm and the back tyre blows the plug so again we are on the side of the road, but now we know how to fix it,.The last attempt Vic remembers he used and old plug that is why it did not fit, so he uses a new plug with a mushroom head and it fixes the tyre
We arrive at Kaurah have a shower and head for the RSL for dinner
Neil and Pauline left there truck here and were going to pick it up on the way home. Neil forgot about the truck and rode on by.
He came back about 20 minutes after her remembered.
It was a fun filled few days lots of laughts and lots of bites it did not rain at all on our little trip