Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 18:01
Motherhen,
I live in the Mallee of Victoria...and I work half an hours drive from
my home, in a small town of about 200 people. I manage a depot of a Pharmacy which has its main
shop in the nearest larger town about 30kms away. I'm sorry for you that you have no work where you live and I understand about having family that you want to be near. My parents live in the town where I work...it is
my home town as I only moved to live with my partner. No grandchildren at the moment and both children travelling overseas...but hopefully coming
home soon.
I've been "
home alone" all day and so have been hooked on the
forum!!
We're heading off on the last day of July and it can't come soon enough. We're going to
Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kings Canyon then on the
Mereenie loop to
Alice Springs. From there up the Tanami and to
Fitzroy Crossing and then we're going to Middle
Lagoon then down to
Broome to stay a bit before going to
Derby and the
Gibb River Road. We'll take our time on the Gibb and go all the way up to Kalumbaru, out to
Mitchell Falls then back to
Drysdale River Station and head towards
Kununurra. I think we might take the road to
Wyndham just after the
Pentecost River then go from
Wyndham to
Kununurra. When we leave
Kununurra we'll go to
El Questro then to the Bungle Bungles,
Halls Creek, back down the Tanami to Alice for a few days then on the Old
Andado Track to Mt Dare, Dalhousie,
Oodnadatta, Maree etc out to Arkaroola and then
home. That's the general outline but although every trip has a plan we very rarely stick to it. There's always something that we want to add, subtract etc etc but you don't know that until you get going. I like to have a framework to work with even though the eventual building may change shape as it goes along!!
I'm no longer
home alone...looks like I may even have to do some housewifely stuff instead of talking travel!! Nowhere near as interesting!!
Best wishes and Happy Mothers Day Motherhen
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