The dump I’m staying in, the Elizabeth Hostel, isn…
The dump I’m staying in, the Elizabeth Hostel, isn’t so bad I guess. At least I got a room to myself, no matter that all the furniture has stickers on it reading “Property of the Meteorology Department”, which doesn’t fit the decor of the room at all. The whole thing is run by Chinese people, and there’s a Shaolin Kung-fu (Wing-chun style) school on the 1st floor, so at least that is familiar. It’ll do, and I really don’t feel like wasting time trying to find another place to stay for one night. At least I have hot water, if not a towel or soap.
This morning I walked all over trying to find a place where I could rent a motorcycle. When I finally found what seems to be the only motorcycle rental store in Australia on Queensberry and Peel, I found (1) that I can indeed hire a good-sized motorcycle and ride it to Canberra and (2) that doing this would cost up to A$800. In other words, it is prohibitively expensive to do that, so I decided to just buy a $48 bus ticket instead. It leaves tomorrow night at 8:00 and arrives in Canberra at 3:50 the next morning. I will try to find a hostel at that time in the morning, but I don’t have high hopes after my experience here in Melbourne last night.
So anyway, now that those matters are resolved and I have found an Internet cafe with FTP and Javascript functions, Melbourne seems like a much nicer place. I still need to walk around some more to get a better feel for it, but at least there aren’t any flies. Yet. I imagine that they’re on their way now that they know I’m here.
