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Month: January 2020

  • The road back from Gundagai

    Woke up and it looked like we were in The Big Smoke already. Without much ado we simply repacd the car and drove off back along the Hume Highway to Sydney. Kita doesn’t even really fight putting his harness on and is soon fast asleep. There is little to say about this all too familiar… Read more

  • Peaches and apricots

    It’s time to head home. Pack, clean and fight with Kita to get the harness fitted. I drive the motorways through Geelong and around Melbourne until we are finally on the Hume. But it is not enough just to reverse our journey. Instead we take a detour towards Shepparton. By the time we reach the… Read more

  • Bikes and lighthouses

    Back to Queenscliff today and straight to the Big4 Beacon Resort to collect our hire bikes. Three mountain bikes. Across the road to the beach, where we ride the path along the esplanade, sea to our left, sandhills to our right. The air is hazy with smoke and smells like a blend of smoke and… Read more

  • Mussel bound

    It’s nice to sit on a couch a read a book in the morning. After a breakfast of bacon and eggs we drove down towards Queenscliff in the hope of finding a suitable bicycle hire place. The e-bike hire service was unavailable due to Alex’s age, so he was disappointed. He consoled himself that it… Read more

  • The Balance of the Force

    “Anger, fear, aggression; the Dark Side of the Force are they. ” – Yoda Last night I just wanted a holiday from the holiday. Exhausted by the tension of the fires and the trips out into the dark dusty air to allow Kita to excuse himself, last night I needed sleep. I put Kita in… Read more

  • Marshalling to Melbourne

    Marshalling to Melbourne

    Catching the Warrnambool train from Marshall Station to Melbourne in order to watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Because that’s what I do. Read more

  • Beyond to Belmont

    As we were going to bed last night we received notification that the Hume Highway was closed between Coolac and Tumbarumba. We were cut off. The only traffic were fire engines and police, red and white lights flashing through the clouds of dust and smoke swept up by the gusty winds. Needless to say, it… Read more

  • Beyond to Belmont

    As we were going to bed last night we received notification that the Hume Highway was closed between Coolac and Tumbarumba. We were cut off. The only traffic were fire engines and police, red and white lights flashing through the clouds of dust and smoke swept up by the gusty winds. Needless to say, it… Read more

  • Gunna Gundagai

    Gunna Gundagai

    The Hume Highway is closed in both directions and I’ve been receiving emergency warnings for fires to the south of us. When I walked Kita out for his business I saw fire engines racing south, lights flashing, and a police car speeding north. The dust clouds can be seen blowing in the gusty winds under… Read more

  • On the road to Gundagai

    “There’s a track winding back to an o-old fashioned shack, along the road to Gundagai” – Slim Dusty Look, I’m no fan of Slim Dusty, but it certainly is dusty in Gundagai, the town more famous for the Dog on the Tuckerbox. There was a dog beside the bag of tucker at the Hungry Jack’s… Read more

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