From Yass

Monday at the cricket was great. The weather was warmer and I again met a chap I had sat with the day before. We both enjoy our cricket and took it in turns to tell each yarns from our days gone by. In between we watched as Australia began to take control of the match. When I eventually got back to Berwick, Trish and I had fish and chips for tea and got everything ready for our drive to Canberra the next day. We packed as much as we could and soon were ready for a good sleep.

We were on deck early Tuesday. Trish wanted to do some last minute washing too. We were on our way by 8:30 am. The traffic was minimal as it is holiday season. We dropped Kate's car at Chris' near Tullamarine airport so they could get home to Berwick easily.

650 k's later we pulled into a motel at Yass not too far from Canberra. The motel room was small but the air con worked well and everything was clean. There was free internet, thus I am doing this post and keeping one eye on the cricket on TV. The road between Melbourne and Sydney is nearly all dual highway nowadays but as you can see this part of Australia is very dry. Sorry about the dead bugs on the windscreen.

I have rung ahead to ensure all is OK for our visit in Canberra first thing tomorrow but there was no answer. Hopefully all is OK.

Eventually we got a call through and did not get good news, my elderly uncle now has pneumonia and hospital staff now intend to keep him as comfortable as possible.