after oleg’s arrival from the mechanic at 10:30 am, we quickly had breakfast, loaded up our stuff into the car and departed towards the distant fjordland of new zealand – milford sound, doubtful sound, te anau (the local big city, meaning it has 3 streets) and manapouri (the local small city, meaning it has 1 street), in which we were staying. the drive was long and as far as i can remember uneventful, except for one small event.
i drove! on the left side of the road! it was not a long drive, and it was a rather empty stretch of the highway, so i tried driving for about 30 minutes. i did more or less okay, didn’t crash into anything or anyone, but its tough, everything is very BACKWARDS. i felt like alice in wonderland – everything became mirrored.
other than that, lots of
the whole day stands out only for oleg going to te anau by himself and thus i had a few hours to sit at the shore of the manapouri lake, watch the sun set over the mountains, just think to myself, play sudoku, and do absolutely nothing.
in the evening we met 3 very energetic ladies from germany, and kiwi guy, who is an artist, who was sorta travelling with them. it was a pleasant dinner around a table filled with people, which actually was nice after the alone meditative time.
but what was wrong with the car? did the mechanic find the fault? did he not know what it was? did he think its one thing, but when the fix for it caused a massive chain reaction resulting in the car falling into pieces right there and then? did he call in his 3 assistants to do tests and x-ray scans of the engine block? did he have to break into oleg’s house to find evidence of car abuse? did the autoshop supervisor accuse him of neglecting other customers because of this one case? did a random person come in and say something random and did the mechanic make a thoughtful face and go back to bitch at the stupid assistants who didnt figure it out? did he then proceed to point out that one bolt was missing from one part, which caused another part to malfunction just a little bit, which threw out the balance of the whole car, which then broke down cause it couldnt handle the stress? did it perhaps anticipate that you were going to drive it the next day? WE NEED TO KNOW THESE THINGS, MAN!
other than that, lots of…………………
the curiosit is killing me!