Log One Hundred and Twenty Seven – This Trip Ends and So a New One Begins

17 November 2025

We have ended our three week journey through southern parts of NSW and Victoria and now it’s back to reality. Commitments need to be fulfilled, appointments made and the administrivia of life attended to.

We completed over 3000 kms in 20 days. This was one of our shorter trips. It was however full of new adventures not to mention new bakeries and new pies, pasties and other yummies to enjoy. We did manage to support roughly 13 local small businesses. Needless to say most in the form of providores of good coffee and baked goods. Did I mention wineries?

Our final day included a visit and tour of the Junee licorice and chocolate factory. An old flour mill converted to produce the sweeter pleasures.

Over these few weeks we saw the remaining snow in the Snowy Mountains, migrating whales, an amazing coastline, the rocky landscape of the Grampians and the wide open expanses of western NSW.

The people we met included a young Canadian woman who left Canada in -25c weather and arrived on a cattle station in 45c temps. She had finished her 8 months on the cattle station and was exploring the country on her own before her return to a another Canadian winter. There was the German gentleman who had created an online subscription service for sound engineers who were seeking sound files of unique sounds. I’m sure he recorded rain and wind sound clips in Port Fairy. There was the couple who were on a 2 year adventure travelling around Australia in their renovated bus. We met groups riding their bikes on bike trails and were inspired to return for more bike riding.

The weather ranged from freezing in the mountains to 30c on the beach and gale force winds and rain. All great fun.

Ideas for the next adventure have not yet germinated but I’m sure after a few weeks at home ideas will be forming.