First day of holiday. It was a pretty boring drive, really. Unfortunately we didn't have time to take a really scenic route, so it was basically straight down the Hume Highway from Canberra to Wangaratta. Except that we detoured to stop for lunch in Cootamundra.
I don't see any reason to go back to Cootamundra. It's not a very interesting place. Wheat belt, small town, no real tourist attractions to speak of. We stopped to have lunch, but because it was just before 3pm, the first cafe we stopped for lunch at had closed its kitchen. We managed to eat at a different place across the street. I had fish and chips, which in retrospect was an odd choice for a town so far inland. The fish wasn't very good.
We were hoping to find some kind of back route to Wangaratta, but it turned out to be easier in the time we had just to go back to the highway at Gundagai and zoom straight on down.
So we're in the hotel at Wangaratta now. I don't really have much else to say. I took no photos - what was I going to take photos of anyway, the highway? We're planning on doing more things tomorrow and for the rest of the week, and I promise I'll take photos of those things.
While I did remember to get my good camera out before I left, I did not remember to grab the battery charger and spare battery. As I haven't used it in quite some time I do not expect that the battery in it has any charge, so it's going to be iPhone photos only for the whole trip. Which isn't bad, really. The iPhone has quite a good camera, though its lack of zoom is vexing.
I did notice on the way down here that there seems to be a campaign going at the moment about driver fatigue. There were signs up all over the highway saying things like "ARE YOU YAWNING?" Why yes, now that you mention it. I wish you hadn't.
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