Road trips

Thu 5th

Yesterday was as uneventful as most of the last week or so - a visit to the library to check emails, etc. I took the gopher again and made a movie of the drive through the village on the way home.

I tried to load it but it failed. Will wait till I get home to try again.

Fri 6th

Time to move again. We left Goolwa about 9. I was hoping to stop at a Dymocks on the way to the airport and pick up a copy of the latest Robert Jordan book which was released on 27th (ie after I'd left Adelaide) but both the shops that were on the way were out of stock.

Consequently we arrived at the airport a bit earlier than planned so I had 2 hours before my flight, which I spent in the Qantas club. I printed off some maps of the route from the airport to Katoomba and located the Dymocks stores on the way.

The flight was uneventful and for the first time in the last month or so I had an empty seat next to me. It was a bit under 2 hours so there was no movie. I read the paper, did the crosswords and that just about filled in the time. We did get a light lunch on this flight.

I had an hour to wait for Malcolm who was flying from Perth on Virgin. He was renting a car so I was getting a ride with him. By then I had my case so had to drag that with me and eventually sat in the coffee shop area in the Virgin terminal and read till. he arrived. We left close to 4-30 and by then the traffic was building up. We stopped at Parramatta for a loo break and picked up some kebabs. These were additional benefits, since the initial reason was to visit the Dymocks there who did have the book. I will now have something to read going home as I'll probably finish the current book I'm reading before then.

Because of the stop and the traffic it was after 7-30 before we reached the hotel and Mal's GPS had us at the back where there were no entrances so we spend some time in the alleys ways behind it before we got to the main road and could drive in. It was raining and foggy and getting dark so we had no views on the way up.

I walked to the Coles about 1 km away to pick up some mixers and nibbles. It was sprinkling and misty so I got a bit damp but not wet. Then I joined Deidree and Peter in their room for a drink. Mal had gone to the Wine shop across the road and returned with 2 bottles of red and needed a corkscrew to open them,but we didn't have one. Peter pushed the cork in with a peg so they could have some wine and I had my whisky. By this time my knee was really aching, not helped by the walk.