DAY 17 - WAGGA WAGGA NSW

WAGGA WAGGA NSW

DAY 17

REST DAY


A day about town, taking care of general trivialities and lazing in the park.

I have to confess some disappointment at how few touring cyclists I’ve actually come across to this point.

Two.

That’s how many.

And this was over 2 weeks ago at Winmalee in the Blue Mountains.

Even then they were going the other way.

I hear so many adventurous tales of bike riders all over the wide brown land, so it does seem a little strange to be approaching 1000 km of my journey through a well populated area of Australia and to have only come across 2 cyclists going the other way.

And it’s not even summer or winter.

Or perhaps Sydney to Adelaide just isn’t extreme enough for the hardcorers any longer??

Anyway, I guess this all serves me better to carve my own path….

I’ll be hanging about in Wagga for 2 days. I feel as though I could push on tomorrow, but since I’ve paid my camp site up and they won’t give me a refund for the 3rd night, I might as well stay.

Besides, I’ve made friends with my neighbours.

Got invited around for dinner and everything tonight.

Sandy cooked up some Bolognaise and we washed it down with a beer and some evil Goon*.

*Goon is cheap cask wine – the most famous Aussie brand is Coolabah. By this theory, you can get absolutely wrecked for about $7 and act like a complete Goon etc, etc………

Well, there was none of this really.

Everything remained very polite as Sandy and his sidekick B.J are working and looking for work respectively in Wagga, so this amounted to an early start for both of them.

There was the usual banter campfire banter about the state of the world and the meaning of life and aside from said Goon, there were no particular substances involved so discussion remained in general, silliness-free……