Driving Days, November 4 & 5

 November 4 - Hey Hey- off to Hay!

    We left Adelaide relatively early, but had a slight delay trying to get the navigation to recognize where we were going - Hay. 

      We drove through flat, dry land for most of the day, although earlier in the drive there were fields of grapes (wineries) and fruit trees. There were also cattle farms, but they eventually disappeared as the land got drier and flatter. It was all very interesting.

     It was a cloudy, rather chilly day. (50s) It got windy and there was a section where tumbleweed scudded across the road.

     Most of the day was on secondary roads and the population thinned out with most villages being little more than crossroads.

    We had made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the morning which was good as there were few places to eat en route. We also had oranges etc.

 

Bidgee Motor Lodge

    We arrived at the Bidgee Motor Lodge in Hay. As we are saying, it is in the north, south, east, west AND middle of nowhere! We are in a rather spartan motel room and there seemed no where in town to eat, so we went to the supermarket and picked up some stuff to eat in the room.

November 5

    This was another long day of driving. The terrain went from being dry and flat to farm land and then, in the last hour or so, of climbing into the Blue Mountains.

    We were mostly on B roads which are quite narrow. It is amazing, and scary, to watch what they call Truck Trains whoosh by the car. They are often 3 trailer trucks long and it's interesting to think that these pass as "highways" for much of this country.

     We ate our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some oranges and cookies en route with just a few bathroom/petrol stops.

   

Leura House

  We arrived in Leura, Australia in the Blue Mountains. It is a small, touristy and very hilly town. We are at the oldest house in town and we are on the third floor of a hotel with many verandas. We chose not to lug our suitcases up the stairs and grabbed enough for the night. We walked a short distance into the main street of town and ate a small meal at Jiggly Korean Barbecue. We are too tired to be hungry.

Ours was the room at the top with its own balcony