I woke up in my nice spacious cabin and warm proper bed-my first in over a week-and walked over to Ruby before sunrise. Everyone had shouted me the night in a cabin for the night for my birthday which was a ripper present! However I later learned that Albury All Seasons had later offered them the room for free…meaning you guys owe me another present! The downside to all this is that Joel and Sam have (very temporarily) occupied my cove.
We took a short drive to our starting point and started the morning like any other-relatively slowly. We loved the cosy backstreets and scenery but it didn’t last long-within an hour we were back on the dirty dirty Hume and stuck there for the day. Joel has said we need to “learn to love the Hume”, but we all agree it sucks the life out of us!
There was nothing majorly noteworthy happening in the morning-yesterday morning we met a sweet 70 year old rollerskier named Bob ripping up the road in his lycra get-up…there was nothing like that unfortunately. However I noticed a new form of roadkill today-tortoises! Not sure if that’s the plural of tortoise (torti? Tortellini? Anyway…) . There was at least six of them over the span of 45 odd kilometres we covered, and generally we were a long way from water so I’m not too sure what these torti were doing, but there you go.
Ben and Joel were feeling relatively good today and got ahead of me early on, and that’s the way it stayed for most of the day…Joel’s injuries are improving, as are Ben’s. I’m not sure about mine, they’re not any worse, however I’m still not going to be a shin model any time soon.
We were scheduled to finish at Holbrook and the boys got there around 10 minutes before me to get in a sneaky break. Although we’d planned an easy day today we thought we’d tack on a few extra kms as it’s meant to be raining tomorrow-so we are trying to think ahead! The extra 5kms were walked, and we wandered past a great big submarine stuck in the middle of town. Much like the Tortellini, I’m really not sure what the hell a submarine is doing in the middle of the country. There was a museum to explain this all to me, but at the end of a tough day on the road I didn’t really care!
Back we went to the caravan park at Holbrook to do the ol’ shower/massage/nothing routine. A fairly early dinner and then relax in Ruby is scheduled while we listen to the sound of rain hitting her on the roof…hoping it’s going to clear for tomorrow!
Cheers
Nick
Joel looking like a NutriGrain man...despite being a Weetbix kinda girl
HMAS Business
Jacki crossing off 350kms...woohoo!!!
Nick, the map-o-phile
Holbrook Motor Village, our lovely home for the next two nights- Sharon and Trevor, you're awesome!!
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