This weekend’s side trip is to Murramarang National Park, on
Australia’s eastern coast in New South Wales. I rented a car and, after taking
a day to practice and get my left-hand-lane driving skills back, I set off for
the coast on Sunday morning.
Accompanying me on this side trip was one of my colleagues here
from the London office. We loaded the car and set-out on our trip at about
half-ten which is late for me to start on a road trip, but was about perfect
for the day we had!
While the trip started under somewhat overcast skies, the
drive east took us across the lovely floors of green valleys, and over the
rustic hills of the eastern countryside. By the time we had been on the road
for about an hour, it was a bright, clear, mostly sunny day!
On the way down to the coast my colleague navigated and kept
me on course (and more than once made me aware of things that I would have
otherwise missed seeing as I was concentrating on the road).
At the end of the drive, was the amazing views of the Pacific. How breathtakingly beautiful!
And on the way
back, a bit more comfortable with the route (I made one wrong turning, but it
just took us to South Canberra instead of North Canberra – so, no biggie) we
swapped jokes for most of the trip!
Between the company, the drive, and the day, it was an
excellent day – I facetiously apologized to my colleague that we’d had such a
bummer of a day and that the weather was so horrible! We had a chuckle and
agreed that it had been an excellent day!
Wherever you are this morning I hope that your weekend was
as perfect!
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