Hello peoples, I is back for a few weeks .... aren't you lucky
Drove the mighty Prius to Lithgow on Wednesday, a bit of a rough start, seems OPTUS has their fingers in lots of things that aren't branded Optus ..... card payments were a bit of a non event early on in the day so the departure was delayed till 10:10am .... the cut off for checking in at the hotel in Lithgow was 9:00pm .... but I get an extra 30 mins when I reach NSW .... yeah, getting old does mess up these things. Stopped at Rankin Springs for fuel, 820km for 45 ltrs, happy with that because I was pedalling it hard .... clock behind the counter said 6pm

is that the right time .... yeah was the reply, take 30 mins off, not add them on .... hmmm..... try to ring the pub to see if it was possible to arrange a late check in, phone still dropping out every time there was an answer at the other end .... best move along and try later ..... outside West Wylong and the phone finally connects, a tad of negotiation and I guess on a 10pm arrival ... ring at 9:30 and let us know where you are on the journey ..... that bit of the Midland hwy through Grenfel and Cowra is a tad scary as the day turns to night ... and throw in road rebuilding around every second corner or over the crest of a hill, especially when trying to make up time ...... finally got through Bathurst on 9:30pm, went to make the phjone call, phone has died ... another 10 mins for it to recharge enough to get it to start up again and a phone call from the pub, yeah I'll wait for you, checked in at 10:10pm ... with the 30 mins lost, 11 1/2hrs, took another hr or more for the adrenaline to drain from the system and the blood to flow back into the white knuckles
T1 Terry