By Will.
My old mate Darren, we've been great friends for 34 years. Sometimes he thinks he is a bounty hunter out of Star Wars.
The exhaust looks like a double barrel Shotgun...cool !
***Next update will be our future home base, the Mandurah Reno House, then it will be full on adventure following team wiljen as they tackle India on Royal Enfield Motorcycles for 2 months....we are nervously excited.***
Random Happenings of Life.
What a mind bending couple of weeks Jenny & I have lived. We know more people then we realise.
Firstly "Alan" Concrete Contractor we have commissioned to complete the work at the temporary go between investment house we are currently living in. Alan has done work for us 12 years before and is friends with friends of ours. He should be retired by now !?!? Great old bloke !
Then tonight at the Nevermind Adventure Tours VIP meeting at Mean Machines, Morley, Perth, WA. I meet one of the ex-Skipper Airline Charter Pilots "Mick" who use to fly me back & forth from one of the Gold Mines in the Murchison region back in the early '90's.
Entrance into Mean Machines, Morley, Perth, WA. Who will we meet tonight ?
Darren, Jenny & Delys, at the Nevermind VIP party, held at Mean Machines, Morley.
Last weekend at the HU meet, I crossed paths with Mark who still works for Pilbara Iron (formally Hamersley Iron ) in "Transport " up at Tom Price, located in the the Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
It's a small, small world.
Jenny & I have been sort of itinerant during our working lives. My longest job was 7.5 years with Hamersley Iron & Jen's was nearly 5 years at the BP Roadhouse we ended up owning/operating.
Between us we have worked at about 35 full time jobs over 30 years. Everything from cooking, hospitality, mining, supply/logistics, automotive, transport, petroleum, education, surveying & some other weird stuff like ground crew on Airships etc.
Ideally once we finished school back in the 80's we would have done Tertiary Education or taken on an a Apprenticeship. But coming from a background of the battling working class. We entered the work force with 17% interest rates on house mortgages & over 10% unemployment. The economy was basically in recession. So like a lot of our peers we had to live by our wits.
The degree we earned is known as QBE !
Qualified By Experience....
Live your life and enjoy meeting the "Good People". We are all in this together!
Getting ready for a cold ride (yesterday, Saturday the 24th).
Darren came along as well, max temp for the ride was 15 degC. We did 140kms.
Over the past week we made a start with the new Carport/Patio.
Grant (green shirt) "Carpenter Extrordinaire" and Bones erect the Carport/Patio. Grant's a mate from way back, sadly I have to pay for his work. No mates rates on this one. Top Job though.
Landcruiser has a new temporary home. Next grano work & landscaping. Then it's up for sale once we can move into the Mandurah Reno House.
Even I have some soak well holes to dig.
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