The drive to Port Pirie

just letting you know, yes, we realise these posts are out of order. you'll all just have to live with it.

14 July 2006 2:10pm (south australian time)

We've driven 3 hours so far today, and we have at least 3.5 to go before we get to port pirie.

it's funny comparing liz's driving to mine. i hate having people overtake me, because i like to be in front. well, unless they're complete dickheads with a death wish, and then they generally speed off into the distance anyway.

liz lets everyone pass. she doesn't like people sitting behind her as much as i don't like people in front. i don't like them ahead of me because i figure i can't trust them. she doesn't like them behind because she figures she can't trust them.

i've been teaching liz to use cruise control. on these straight flat roads it's good because it stops you speeding - and i find it dangerously easy to speed accidentally on roads like this, particularly when we've been playing the sort of music we've listened to today - the bird, rage against the machine, transport, radiohead, even some irish tunes recorded at port arlington, but all in all, music with great beats to keep us up and grooving.

we spent the last 2 nights in coonawarra, and had a lot of fun wine tasting. i was very good - only bought one bottle and one loaf of bread the whole time. we stayed in coonawarra country cabins (picker's hut). the original plan was to stay there one night and head to adelaide, but we didn't arrive till about 7pm, and it was so nice we decided to stay an extra day - i could easily have stayed weeks, the area was so gorgeous.

anyway, we got back to our cabin after our wine tasting yesterday to find a fruit and cheese platter and bottle of wine waiting for us. i love staying in b and bs - just wish we could afford to do it more often!

one day, liz and i are going to manage to do the great ocean road without it pouring rain. it is a magnificent place - although both of us remarked on the fact that we felt like something was missing this time. i've never driven so much in one day, but that part of the world made me feel so alive that it was easy - i didn't want to stop, it was so magnificent.

dad will be proud, we've seen lots of raptors.

i've forbidden liz from eating chocolate while we're travelling. whenever she does, she spends the next day farting in the car, and i have to beat her over the head and vomit in her lap. really, she brings it on herself.

we've reached the outskirts of adelaide. need to stop writing - steep and winding. mmm... vomitous.