{"id":115,"date":"2007-03-10T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-03-10T05:19:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:19:03","slug":"catching-up-part-3-the-great-ocean-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up Part 3: The Great Ocean Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wooh, almost up to date on the ol’ blogging! This, the last of the three catchups (if you’ve not checked this site for a few days, I recommend reading the Melbourne<\/a> and Grampians<\/a> catchups first), is about the Great Ocean Road trip Pat and I went on.<\/p>\n

Prologue<\/b>
\nBefore heading off on the Great Ocean Road trip, Pat spent the evening in Melbourne doing some photo uploading and trying desperately to get his 20KG+ rucksack down to under 15KG. He managed both, eventually, and presently has a nice bag hiding in a Secret Place In Melbourne with some of the stuff he didn’t really need for this stage of the trip, but couldn’t face throwing away.<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Jen, who met up with Pat for a couple of bevvies and filled him in regarding where to go \/ what to do (and what not to) in the Cairns to Sydney stretch of the Big Adventure!<\/p>\n

The morning before he went on the tour, Pat spent a while faffing around, making sure everything was ready and also buying some desperately needed new clothes… before finally getting on the Wayward Bus, complete with nice-n-light bag, at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n

The Great Ocean Road Trip<\/b>
\n\"'Excited<\/a>The first thought through Pat’s mind was “Oh dear”, as he walked towards the bus and noticed the only other people waiting to get on it were a 60-something couple plus a mother and daughter. Perhaps this wasn’t quite going to be the crazy few days he had anticipated…<\/p>\n

Luckily for Pat there were some folks of a more “traditional” backpacker nature (i.e. 20 somethings) – Tash and Caroline (from the UK) and Rebecca (from Switzerland) – so he at least had some people around his age group to talk to.<\/p>\n

On the whole the group themselves (all 8 of us, in a 24 seater coach) were pretty quiet whilst on the coach, which was a bit of a shame, but that didn’t stop our bus driver Billy from trying to get a rise out of everyone, playing comedy music (“Come to Australia… You Might Accidentally Get Killed” by the Scared Wierd Little Guys being one of Pat’s favourites) constantly cracking lame jokes – which it seems Pat found hilarious, but I’m guessing that’s because of his own somewhat appauling sense of humour (Hey, it’s ironic! – Pat<\/i>) Do you even know what you mean by that, Scullion? (I… no. – Pat<\/i>) Thought not.<\/p>\n

Classic Billy Quotes<\/b>
\n\"Billy<\/a><\/p>\n