LOL! Great stuff! ;-)
Especially the Dumb & Dumber reference together with Bumby *grin* LOL!
Oh, great pictures with Sean & Ebass ;-)
Jeez, I can't stop giggling, this must be the funniest bit on MO ever. But then my summer holiday will start in a couple of hours which makes everything even funnier ;-)
It's a shame you crashed several times, when I just had my licence I drove all the way through the Alps and halfway through Italy (and back again ;-) with my girlfriend and all our camping gear on the bike (a GPz 550, can you imagine! We had some great encounters with couples on Wings/Electraglides and other big touring rigs, they were very impressed ;-), and we didn't have one single problem in over 6000 km's.
In hindsight, a handful similar trips later, I find it hard to believe we just set off like that, without a worry in the world...
Anyway, have fun.