Phantom's Nom Ride

Long Long ago in a land far far away

Hang on you can't do that it's already been used by Shriek So who cares, there was a young man (read that as old fart trying to look good) hard at work trying to organise a grand adventure. He toiled over the maps trying to find a difficult and demanding route so as to challenge the group accompanying him on his quest. After months of research he finally accomplished the task. Every thing had been organised meeting point, accommodation, resting places, meal brakes etc. He contacted the interested persons and arranged times to meet to discuss the trip and anything that he my have overlooked.

Then with only days to go before he and the others departed, the weather changed and the rain that should have been here months ago arrived. Part of the area that he had planned to trek through was now underwater, homes had been flooded and livestock lost. The young man had two chooses, to postpone or cancel his monumental trip. Then a very trusted friend suggested a third opinion of taking another route but making it shorter. The young man was running out of time, he had to decide which way he was going to go before his window closed and he would have to wait another year before heading off. So after sending messages to everyone letting them know what was happening he sat down and started a new plan of attach. A shorter trip with fewer stops meant fewer things could go wrong. After a couple of days everything was ready to go, then it happened again more rain and storms with even more to come now he was in real trouble he had committed everything he had what was he to do.

A sudden clap of thunder and I woke up with a start, it had been all a dream, I was still in front of my computer trying to work out what I was going to do for my nom's run after all plans had been cancelled due to bad weather or the forecast of storms for the weekend. On talking to Stevo and getting some further ideas I decided to have a small trip around country Victoria before calling into Geelong on the way home and having lunch. I called a few places and finally was able to book a place just out of the Geelong business centre overlooking the bay called The Wharf Shed.

On the day I meet up at stevo's and rode into the meeting point in Melbourne. It was a typical winters day in Melbourne overcast raining and with the wind already blowing. I had to change plans again, I couldn't have people riding around in this weather on a nom's run or anything else for that matter so I quickly decided to change plans again. I could still leave at the same time but head straight to Geelong. The Wharf had been booked for 12:00 so as long as we were there about that time or if we got there a little earlier we could have a few drinks before hand.

Everything went well except the weather, we had a nice lunch some bigger than they would have liked. Then after lunch I was presented with the Patriots Patch and thanked everyone for coming and then gave out some gifts which everyone thought was a good idea. We then headed back to Scorpions place and had a few beers before all heading home. Everyone had a good day even with the weather and I thank everyone for turning up.

Phantom