TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

12:31 PM
Posted by jodi rose

The drive home slightly harder work, didn't leave til 4pm so had to make sure Lisa stayed awake until we finally got back at 2am. It's quite a wild feeling driving into the darkness, you could be about to fall off the edge of the world, and the lights of the freeway kept blurring and imagined they were a runway and we were about to take off into space.
Lucky I wasn't driving :)
Lise experimented with the cruise control, kept us overtaking the trucks but not speeding too much, and the stunning emerald green rolling hills replaced by glimpses of insanely bright stars. Such a joy to see that landscape all green and verdant, after the last few times when it was dusty cracked earth during the drought.
Hello again global warming - already 36 degreesC today, one degree less than the hottest october day on record in australia. (got to 38.4, the hottest October day in Sydney since records were started in 1859 or so) for my northern european friends, think of that heat in april in helsinki. yeah, right. Makes it hard to work when your brain turns to mush and the waves are calling......