Home from the sea

Or Sydney, which is by the sea, so that counts.

It was a good drive, except for the fact that getting out of Sydney was a huge pain. There was some detour, and then someone had an accident, and then I took a wrong turning somewhere... so, I probably would have been back at least an hour earlier if not for that fun.

But, I love my car, she hummed like a top the entire way to, around big swodges of,  and back from Sydney. And damned_colonial is a tour guide par excellence, especially considering she's only lived in the place for some months. We got to look at pretty boats, pretty bush (the tree kind) and I additionally got a great potted dissertation on the three flavours of Christian religious music.

Add to that nice food, some gratuitious bookshopping, my finding a place that doesn't put chocolate on the soy chai latte, and the fact that Sydney actually does have a diverse population, and it all adds up to a perfectly charming weekend.

Oh, and it is warm. Coming over the Great Dividing Range, I could swear that the temperature dropped by at least 5 degrees... in fact, I just checked, it's 6 degrees colder. Yes, I am a wuss.

Must also try and find a relief/contour map of that route. It most definitely feels that when you're driving from Canberra to Sydney you're driving downhill all the way and the reverse coming back (ignoring the ranges and general rises and troughs in the road, ok?). It'd be interesting to see how much of the journey down involves actually driving downhill (there must be a reasonable amount, since Canberra is 570m above sea level).