By some miracle and a great deal of planning and preparation, we departed home right on 9am. We left the city quickly and were soon on the outskirts of Bendigo. Having worked out the borrowed GPS unit, we discovered that it was a bit out of date for the lovely new freeway that goes almost all the way to Bendigo.
We had lunch at Charlton. It seemed that we bought out the bakery. I felt sorry for the people after us ‘cos there wasn’t much left for the poor girl to sell. The coffee was pretty good too, Pam.
You could say that the drive from Melbourne to Mildura is totally boring, except for all this interesting stuff if you LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS KIDS!! Lots of interesting little towns that we swear we are going to back to, one day. Strangely enough the fascination that I held as a child at the railway line running up the middle of the road in Wycheproof was lost on my GenY children. Maybe my Dad was better at making things seem cool and interesting than we are? I did get a bit tired of Keith waking me up every km or so to point out all the rubbish on the side of the road.
Deakin Big 4 is certainly cool enough for the kids. It was still hot enough for a swim despite that the rain was falling lightly. Apparently we just missed the dust storm that went through town prior to the rain falling.
Keith’s mentioning our trip to members of the local car club here in Mildura meant that we got to spend an evening with quite a few people that we had not met before but were very keen to welcome us to their neck of the woods.
Got the computer up and running but issues with the internet modem. Will resolve but will be a couple of days late updating. Got the kids to start a video diary but all we have ended up with is silly entries for Funniest Home Videos – Camping and Caravanning edition.
I am not looking forward to packing up wet in the morning.
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