Sep 09, 2007 10:11
This is something I wrote on myspace yesterday:
Today through a nightmarish twist of fate Nic and I ended up on.....
THE GREAT DIVIDING RANGE!
I am talking us...in a miniature car that was NOT meant for off road travel...for 3 hours...up a MOUNTAIN, (make that at least 4 mountains, not hills, like moutains, like mountains where people have fatal accidents and witches live)...ultra narrow roads (i'm talking like 2 meters wide AT BEST! ...treacherous drops down deathly steep cliffs...NO BARRIERS..at all!!!...falling rocks...MUD...RAIN...NO CIVILIZATION ANYWHERE except the extremely rare 4 wheel drive coming towards us with no room to pull over...slippery collapsing roadsides falling away to nothing...no u-turn facilities, no reversing...FOR 3 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WAS THE MOST TRAUMATIC THING I HAVE EVER DONE.
We laughed hysterically the whole way about how the hell we got in such a situation, and then we cried.
Utterly unbelievable: one second we were chilling in Golbourn, and then..WE WERE UP A MOUNTAIN ON THE NARROWEST WINDING ROAD ALONG A CLIFF FACE ....CLIFF FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH NO OPTION BUT TO KEEP GOING!!!
This kind of thing is only imagined or watched in those true story midday movies about couples dissapearing in the wilderness..BUT IT WAS REAL!! A night mare! I can't even describe what it was like up there. It was like I was in a HORRENDOUS EXTREME OFF ROADING ENTHUSIASTS MOVIE....except I WASN'T ENTHUSED!!!!!!!!!
We are at home now. I can't believe it happened to us but let me just warn you, NEVER, NEVVVVERRRRRRRR take "Tourist Route" number 13. And if you do, make sure you turn back at the Wombean caves, no matter how horrible the drive was to get there, TURN BACK, because what comes after is 50,000000000000 times worse!!!!!!!!
Now pair that with a horrid raging party of hippies drumming, stomping, and playing loud music until 8am, ignoring all our protests to shut up, and the 3 noise complaints we called in to the police, PLUS, racing around at 8:45 this morning trying to return our rental car plus Nic getting sick for no reason and vomiting =
SUPER STRESS ATTACK!
I can't believe I am safe after yesterday's horror mountain ride! I am SO traumatized still! Even a day later when I'm at ground level!