The trip home 2

4 November 2006 11:10am

We've just passed about half a dozen signs to a place called Terry Hie Hie.

We've been getting heaps of messages and phonecalls from people saying they're coming to our welcome home party. We're really going home!

The rules for the driving music for the trip:

* nothing sad
* nothing by the people we have just said goodbye to
* nothing sad
* primarily singalong songs
* nothing slow (so we don't sleep)
* nothing hypnotic
* nothing sad

Fortunately this means we're listening to such classics as "marvellous" by the 12th man, "be my baby" by the Teen Queens, and "ghost of a texas ladies man" by concrete blonde.

Ah, what a marvellous day.

12:20pm

well, we have our priorities straight. we've just made a 50 minute detour to visit our favourite organic winery (Wright Robinson) outside Glen Innes (on the road to armidale).

we bought a case of wine and 2 bottles of port. as a resule, the floor of the passenger seat is now entirely filled with wine, and i'm having to sit in come crazy yoga positions. luckily, i'm freakishly flexible, and this doesn't pose a problem. liz, however, is freakishly inflexible. she may have a problem.

when we do yoga classes, i twist my body into all the craziest postures and go "am i supposed to feel something?" while Liz just scowls at me, and says "bitch" - which i think is very un-yoga-like, and probably means she has, like, 8 or 9 years of bad karmic debt to work off. (in liz's defence, she can balance for hours on three toes, with her other foot in the air, whilst eating paw paw, and painting her fingernails - i fall over if i'm standing on 2 feet and a butterfly brushes past. we all have our strengths...

does anyone out there know how many bad karma points i get for boasting about my flexibility?

anyway, poor liz! when she's a passenger, she's really going to suffer. the things we do for good (and very cheap) wine and port!

Note - towards the afternoon, liz was volunteering to drive a lot... didn't bother liv, she sits in odd positions even when there's not wine on the floor, so everyone (except probably liz, who had to do most of the driving) was happy.

12:45pm - my personal favourite place name: Bald Nob (between glen innes and tenterfield) - closely seconded by Iron Nob (SA, near Port Pirie).

Seriously, I love this country!