Crazy French Man "Tom" 25th August 2007

We had a 500km drive to Alice Springs today and half way at a place called Ti tree, we were approached by a guy in his 20's, spoke with a French accent and asking for a lift to Alice Springs. His push bike was having problems, he had a broken spoke in his rear wheel and could not cycle any further. I asked Hannah if we could take him and we decided to take him the 200km south. On the way we found his name was Tom and yes he was from France, he was cycling from Darwin in the far north of Oz to Adelaide and then on to Melbourne its about 4000km that's about 2500 miles. We named him "The Crazy Frenchman". We chatted all the way to Alice and he was very disappointed when we approached Alice because this was his first big land mark and he couldn't cycle into it. Hannah said to Tom , that we could drop him off at the city limits and let him walk the rest but he declined and we all laughed.
When we arrived we went to tourist info, found our campsite and a cycle repair shop for Tom. His friend of a friend in Alice was a work so he chilled out with us at our campsite until she had finished work and we dropped him in town and said we would meet up later in the week for a drink.
That night we went to what the Simpson's movie, after the film we started the van to find out the ignition lights were lighting up the dashboard. Great another problem, we'll worry about it tomorrow.