After a good night’s sleep in our nice Gander hotel, Lorraine was incensed when she came down to a breakfast with plastic cups and margarine instead of butter (just like the horrible b&b). I didn’t see it but there was an incident with porridge in the microwave and then make-your-own waffles that had too long a queue. On top of all that her apple juice was so watered down you couldn’t tell it was apple juice and her real apple had a big bruise.
We were both relieved to be on our way. The morning was drizzly once again but fortunately no heavy rain on our long drive south. There was some roadwork but nothing like yesterday’s endless work. They have to do as much as they can to repair the ravages of winter during spring and summer - an endless task. No wonder the roads are so bad.
One thing we have noticed is that none of the signs show the distance to the places they are indicating so if you take the turnoff to Come By Chance it could be 5 km or 50. Another problem is that there are no places to pull off the road for a rest. I came to the conclusion that you are expected to rest at the petrol station/roadhouses. These are few and far between. When I needed a break today we turned off into a town and went to Robin’s donuts and later I just turned off the Highway on some road and found a gravelly area where we could stop and stretch our legs.
For the last part of our journey we were travelling on the same road we started on. We were back to a bleaker landscape with smaller trees but this time the leaves on the birch trees had grown and they were a lovely fresh green.
We checked back in to the Sandman Hotel around 2.30 and lazed the afternoon away. Then it was back to Moxies, downstairs, for dinner. The same waiter we had last time greeted us like old friends. I ordered pork belly ramen but there was no pork in it and Lorraine’s steak was very tough. The waiter offered to bring me some pork after the meal was taken away but it was a bit late then, so he didn’t charge us for dessert to make up for it.
I didn’t take any photos today so I’m including 3 from yesterday that Lorraine shared with me and a couple from dinner tonight.
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| Lorraine took a lot of photos of the road today. |
Maybe it’s a Darwin leftover…fascinated by long, stretches of forest edged road rather than endless red? I gather that you are both going to have more appreciation for our various hospitality venues, here in Oz. And that’s all part of travellingđź‘Ť. Great driving, Heather❤️
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