365 Days. Week 48

Early on Monday we flew across the Tasman to Melbourne and then drove a rental car across rural Victoria and New South Wales to Sydney, via Kyneton, Betbet, Bendigo, Yackandandah, the Snowy Mountains, Cooma, Canberra, Bungendore and Goulburn, before arriving in Sydney in the afternoon of Hallowe'en. We stayed in large cities and a tiny country town. We drove through a State forest and through farmland. We climbed a tortuous road to an altitude of 1500 metres and descended again to sea level. There were three of us in the car and over the course of five days we stopped to talk with many people - 29 of them, to be exact - most of whom we are related to, and all of whom are friends of long standing. It was a wonderful week.