Day #2 Adelaide Road Trip

Yass to Hay

So it's up bright and early and our first day or re-packing up the car, so it takes us forever. We finally check out 10am. The Colonial Lodge staff were great, the rooms clean and tastefully decorated but Kelly found it a bit noisy being so near the road with lots of trucks rumbling by and a very noisy compressor, perhaps on the in-room fridge, going all night. I slept fine :-)

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Weather vane on top of the Colonial Lodge

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Day #1 Adelaide Road Trip

Sydney to Yass

Kelly and I are off to Adelaide to spend Xmas & New Year with my mother. Unfortunately mum's not too good at the moment and not really able to travel so we are off to visit. We love the wide open plains of Australia and look forward to the three day drive from Sydney to Adelaide.

This time we are going via Yass, Hay and Loxton arriving in Adelaide on the 17th.

Our plan today was to leave by lunchtime. It just goes to show that no matter how many times we go away we are either scrambling to make a plane or else futzing around trying to get everything done in the last minute or two. In our case hours.

Our goal today is to make it to Yass before nightfall, that’s a distance of 283 km from Sydney and for the beginning part it’s mostly freeway from our house to well outside of the city.

It got later and later until finally we were ready to drop off the furkids. Usually they go to kitty camp at Hanrob but the local vet, just down the road, has opened their own camp and the kids are going there. It’s great because they have all the medical history for Rupert and Peanut and they know them.
Fur-kids
Here they are again, not looking too happy with their lot

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