Category: Movement
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Homeward and onward.
Another spectacular day driving back to Canberra. As Ripley rolled out amongst the hills and valleys, all about us thousands (perhaps millions?) of tiny spiders rode the air currents on long silk streamers catching the sun like a dense silver sleet. How can such impressive lengths of string come out of such teeny incy wincy […]
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The Bright side of life.
We nearly didn’t come down here. The weather forecast looked less than perfect, cloudy, cold, maybe some rain. Nasty. In the end, we decided what the heck. Kelly is due to return to work next week, and there was this illogical but sneaking feeling that we might miss out on an opportunity if we aborted […]
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Overnight stop: Woomargama
We pre-packed Ripley for an early getaway. Narrator: there is no such thing as an early getaway. Then there was the inevitable faffing around, remembering that we forgot this and hadn’t done that. Toothbrush! Juno’s bowl! Charging cables!Finally, we rolled out at just-past-nine. One stop at a McDonalds just outside of Yass. Juno took care […]
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On the road again.
Kelly, Juno and I will be bundling up in Ripley for a short road trip over the next couple of days. Ripley is booked in for a routine service a few hours down the road in the town of Wodonga. Unfortunately for us, there are no commercial Fiat service centres in Canberra so we try […]