LONG SOLO RIDE AFTER LONG BREAK....

On Sunday May 8, 2011 I got up early and couldn't contain my excitement at deciding to ride to Penang alone...... Well, alone because Ricardo had other arrangements with his friends and none of my friends responded to my 'text' sent a day earlier - asking if they'd like to ride with me up north...

I still have aches in some parts of my arm but I'm just gonna ignore it and vrooooooommmm offfff - a month and a half of being idle is more than I can take.... :)


The feel the sound and the glide of my bike was refreshing indeed - as I was riding, my mind thought of Bro Hadi who had come all the way from Indonesia and have already been a week in Penang. I looked forward to seeing him who was here because his little girl Charity, 6 months old was having stomach digestion problems. His wife Lilis was also here with him at Lam Wah Ee specialist Center Penang.

When I fuelded up at Bukit Gantang, I called Azliena - she will join me at Juru petrol kiosk and we would both ride to see Bro Hadi. While waiting for Azliena to arrive, made friends with a few bikers who were heading off to Cameron Highlands. They asked me to join them but I declined as my priority was seeing Bro Hadi.

Azliena and I found Lam Wah Ee Specialist Center and just as we were about to go up to the wards, Bro Hadi 'found' us at the lobby!! Seemingly Charity had been discharged and they were about to go to the Traders' Hotel. After meeting Charity and Lilis, we accompanied them to the hotel. 













Once they had checked in, we took them to a coffee shop of Azliena's choice for lunch. It was very cosey and we yakkaty yakked till a cab came for Bro Hadi and family to take them back to the hotel again.

Azliena and I decided to take the ferry back to the mainland instead of using the bridge. We almost didn't make it as it was full to the brimm. But the other bikers were so sweet, they made way for us and we just about managed to squeeze in..... it was fun....


Then we waited for Wirda to join us at Mc Donald's. It sure was nice catching up after so long..... After having a drink Azliena and Wirda decided to take me to Pak Su's shop in Changkat Jering. I was game for anything.



At Pak Su's shop we all had something to eat. Time flies when you're in good company - before I knew it, it was 6.30pm!!! Wow time to go indeed....

So Azliena and Wirda rode off north and I rode off south.....


I reached home tired but happy - mysteriously all my aches had gone - the ride had been therapeutic and I'm glad I defied well meaning advise to stay off the bike for another week or two....... :)

Fa Polo
Sunday
April 8, 2011