oh boy oh boy

i was having breakfast yesterday, getting ready to leave town and say good bye to my 2 travel mates - we got one more crazy with us now, johanes from germany ;) but it was the first sunny day in a long time and the guys rented motorbikes and were sad that i was living... so when i saw them starting to drive away i called piotrek and said - wait up i'm coming too! and that's how i ended up staying here one more day :) to enjoy the sun! we had a lovely day driving through the batak villages (we didn't see any cannibal but met some really nice people!) and we drove around half of this island until we came to a really dodgy road going inland and johan thought the view from the top would be nice :) so there we were on our city scooters driving in some of the most 4x4 terrain i've ever seen... and the view from the top was gorgeous indeed :) but i started to rain on us... and we came up to a corner where there was a lovely cafe and i asked the guys 'how about some coffee with condensed milk to dry off and let the rain pass?' but they thought it would be better to drive quickly into town. so we went on, we turned, and when we turn we get to a really deep mud road where it feels impossible to keep the bike straight... so me and piotrek slide away and both fall on my left side, with the scooter on top... oh boy oh boy! i got a big scratch on the top of my tight and the whole area swell to the size of a honeydew melon!
but that was not all... we still needed to get home... and this was some sh**** road!! piotrek (pedrito!) was now too scared to drive with me so i moved to johan's bike. and eventually we made it... but we were lost in the mountain for 3 horrible hours! when the guys didn't want to respect my good sense of direction because johan is a boy scout and he thought he could smell the town - hahaha. anyway, we ended up having to turn back for about 1hour till the road i wanted to take and the boys had to admit 'dam, the girl knew it!' haha - so we made a rule to always trust girls! (quite an achievement from such a small feat, but i dont' till it will last!)
anyway, we made it back and we ate like people who had starved for a week and we still went to some sort of political gathering in tuk tuk and then we shared our room that now with 3 costs 80 cents each!! and in the morning all seems better because the sun is shinning and this lake is gorgeous and the tight is still sore as hell and huge... but it will all get well :)
i come to the same conclusion that me and motorbikes are not good friends ;) and i'll be sticking to walking which i much prefer anyways :)
off to bukittingi soon and from there another beautiful lake!
(kyle, you ARE right, it's great to swim in fresh water!!)