As I have noted earlier, the Americans would call this a Big Road Trip, but I call it, in the Australian vernacular.... a ' Really Fcuking Long Drive in a Truck.' With my OCD need for certainty in the face of Fate, we will be leaving here, Cairns, at 6am Eastern Standard Time Australia...on December 20th and we will arrive in Doncaster, Melbourne at 9pm Eastern Standard Daylight Time, on December 27th.
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Cairns to Townsville to Cairns by road/ all up around 500 miles.
Just returned from drive to Townsville (yesterday); stayed overnight, then back to here today with DJWaWa's goods and chattels to add them to the Melbourne bound pile.
Beautiful drive. Damn that is a good Nissan truck! Fast enough, smooth, enough power. DJ spent half the 4 1/2 hour journey back reading out aloud her HD essays on movies and sound engineering etc as she is very proud of her work...and that was a real treat...for about 10 minutes.
Last night, Mrs Fitz and I stayed at the Aquarius hotel on the Strand/beachfront in Townsville. That only tall building in Townsville, and it looks like a Marlboro 20s cigarette packet in shape etc except somewhat bigger. It was about $120/night; which is a lot, or ok, and the thing about it is that everything is just so nice, comfortable, so quiet, huge views of the sea and island...sea breeze always...and big enough, and you just arrive, open the doors to the sea breeze, and sleep. Fantastically comfy. the room is big enough, there's the usual things, the bathroom is good and you just feel in 'the zone' for space and rest. Pull across the thick curtains and its soooo dark for sleep...open them up in the morning and feel the heat of the Tropic sun....a big bright hammer.
On the way back to Cairns today we stopped at Cardwell and bought a mud crab and some tiger prawns and oysters for tonight's end of journey dinner.
The journey gave us a bit of a preview of our journey to Melbourne in the Nissan in a way. In the tray we will put a few things we need until the furniture arrives there... 2 things to sit down on, a small coffee table, and a thin mattress, the kettle, some tea and sugar, a few packets of noodles...and some luggage...in the back seat goes the computers and pillows and some blankets...and the esky filled with fruit and water......with Wanyi and I in the front...so, as the removalists are so fcukign expensive, they can take everything else for their exorbitant price...and we can travel fairly light.
The massive sun light around Ingham is quite amazing. The light is so bright and clear, wow. We will miss the Tropics, I'm sure, especially in July cold and rainy Melbourne catching drafty trams in that 4 million people crowded Southern city. Still, I look forward to the journey and to arrival. After that, the dread of finding work etc and the terror attached to the Credit Card people finding me will arise pretty fast.
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
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