somewhere – a melbourne odyssey Part 1

So finally the time had come. The countdown had long ago reached zero and the audience were about to leave when M suddenly appeared with the most magnificent trailer Sydney had ever seen. Bright red as it was it sparkled in the hot Sydney sun. It was ready to take us on a journey to a distant far away land where Swedish fashion had to be taught and planted. Like missionaries, with a call from above, we set off to spread the beauty.

Behind us tear-wetted  handkerchiefs waved in the air as we were eaten by the horizon. We were gone.

M looking more like Jesus than Jesus himself showed us the right way (on the right hand side of the road of course). Our convoy floated smoothly through prefab wool valleys and noisy truck driver parks until our eyes got red and sore from tiredness. Even though the road was remarkably even and straight it would be too dangerous to sleep through these passages and to rely on our TomTom to shout out loud and wake us up when the road was about to bend. Yes, this was out of the question so we decided to find Somewhere to sleep.

We reached a sleepy Albury at around midnight and the goose bumps on our arms indicated that Sydney’s warming lap was miles away and Sweden felt terrifying close for a second. Albury Allawa Motor Inn’s heater could be turned up to 29 degrees and we went full throttle. Exhausted as he was, M fell asleep in the middle of a sentence and I stayed awake with too much caffeine in my veins and too many impressions to digest. We were really doing it. We were going to Melbourne. To be continued 

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