road trip day two (a week ago)

17 May: So I don't know how much driving time/kms we've clocked up yesterday and today, only that it is a lot. We were in Leeton last night and we are near (but not entirely in) Orange tonight. In both cases Perry has been a little freaked out by the unfamiliar surroundings but he eventually adapts. He has been a good traveller, sleeping most of the time. Lucky. 

Coleambally rice apologists

Backs of shops Colleambally. I wanted to photograph their fronts but there is major renovation going on. 

Some bird we saw in Whitton

The famous Griffin water towers. Only one is original. 

For a lot of the journey I listened to a book called Palm Beach, Finland which is a comedy crime thriller by Antti Tuomainen from 2017. For some reason the person reading it has decided that the less sophisticated, criminal types in the book (they are all Finns, ostensibly speaking Finnish) must talk in West Country tones. The characters in the book are constantly looking at each other, it's a nervous tic / punctuation for Tuomainen ('he looked at her. "Well," she said...').

That took forever but once it was over I listened to podcasts for the rest of today's driving. 

road trip (last week)

So this is a week ago but right now when I wrote it...

Perry and I are gearing up to go on a big fat road trip for the next three days - staying in Leeton tonight, Bathurst tomorrow night and um I forget where on Thursday night - probably Albury. I hope I booked that... ha ha. I have been mainly concentrating on the Bathurst-Orange (and Vittoria) leg of the journey and the practicalities of disrupting our week and getting out of the house for three and a half days. 

So this afternoon after finishing my staff meeting I am going to hot foot it to Coburg where Perry will be spending a couple of active hours with his cousin Lenny (Lennie?)* then we will make our way to Leeton first stop Seymour. This is all field work - filming work, photographing places with a view to writing up a conference paper etc. My main concern at this point is how Perry will behave out of his comfort zone and whether it will be possible to give him enough exercise etc when a big part of every day will be driving (he sleeps in the car, so that's great, but I will have to sleep at night...). 

Stay tuned for what happened... 

*Lenni