Travel Day Tomorrow

Our drive from here down to Melbourne will begin at about 5 am tomorrow morning! The total trip is about 1900k's (about 1200 miles) and will take a couple of days. As we drive via the Newell Highway through central New South Wales we expect temps to get to about 40 degrees. With such hot weather we will need to take it a bit easy with the car. We will get to about Gilgandra and hopefully arrive there mid to late afternoon. We would then hope to finish the trip off the next day and get into Melbourne late Thursday afternoon. Melbourne is expecting a cooler wet day on Thursday which will be a lot easier for driving.

Our bags are pretty well packed now. We are all (Tony, Angela, Paul and Linda) heading to our newly discovered little Thai restaurant this evening for a Christmas meal and will get back home tonight about 8:30 and finish packing the car.

I awoke this morning to find this chap swimming in the pool. I fished him out with the leaf net and put the three iron to work. These toads are pests in this part of the world and authorities want them disposed of! Speaking of the pool, Tony came round yesterday and we went through the watering and pool maintenance routines. Tony will keep an eye on the place while we are away. The most important job is to ensure the water level is maintained in the pool. If the level drops too much it will not feed the filter and then the pump will overheat and require replacement!

We did a 14 kilometre bike ride this morning and decided to do the 'beach' ride. At last the wind has backed off and the riding is a lot more comfortable now. However it was about 28 degrees this morning at 7:30 am and humidity was around 75% so plenty of sweat was lost during the ride! How great the pool is to come home to after a ride like this today!

I am considering changing my Internet Service Provider from Netspace to Internode. I currently get 30GB download per month for $60 where Internode will give me 50GB for $50. Internode will charge me for upload too but this would still see me much better off. Still thinking about it right now though! It is a hassle changing your email address and we use the Netspace Address as our main email contact address!

There isn't much more news. The next post I make on the blog will come from Melbourne.