Boris talked me in to going north at Phillip Island MotoGP time. \u00a0Just short of the Queensland border, in fact. \u201cIt is sunny\u201d, he told me. \u201cWe can stay in a nice resort and watch the race on the big screen. At other times we can disport ourselves by the pool, and drink icy cold beers and watch young women in bikinis. Also, there is no VicPol. There are lots of mountain roads nearby, and\u00a0on the way there. You plan the route.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was much in what he said. I commenced planning immediately. We had two days to get there, so I planned the mountain range crossings with care. I consulted with experts.<\/p>\n
\u201cA question in re<\/em> the MotoGP trip, Bly\u201d, I asked him over the phone, \u201cChloroquine or Mefloquine? I am concerned over the side effects. Do you recommend nausea and blurred vision (Chloroquine) or anxiety, hair loss, mood changes and possible psychosis (Mefloquine)? Also, with Mefloquine I won’t be able to breast feed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are you on about, Al?\u201d he asked with some asperity.<\/p>\n \u201cThe anti-malarials, of course\u201d, I replied. \u201cWe are heading north. I\u2019m leaning towards nausea and blurred vision.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNever mind that\u201d, he said. \u201cI will look after all that shit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen there\u2019s Ross River Fever\u201d, I told him.<\/p>\n \u201cNever mind\u201d, he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got it covered.\u201d<\/p>\n I thought I heard him mutter \u201cBloody Rosses\u201d sotto voce<\/em> as I hung up.<\/p>\n I was looking forward to it. I too have had bad experiences with the Victorian Police Force during my visits to that state to spend money with their citizens; but not as bad as Boris has had. His tale harrowed up my soul, and froze my blood, and made my two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, caused \u00a0my knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. My helmet was uncomfortable for a while.<\/p>\n I had been commuting on the Strom, so I thought I had better make sure the VFR was okay for the trip. I started it up and checked the odo. It was 4000km to the next service. I took it down to the servo and filled its tank. The T30s were pretty new. I checked the pressures. They were in spec.<\/p>\n I guessed I would have to put my luggage in the bags and clip them on to the bike, then.<\/p>\n Bloody Hondas.<\/p>\n There\u2019s always something that needs doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boris talked me in to going north at Phillip Island MotoGP time. Just short of the Queensland border, in fact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13561,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions\/13561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}