Sitting at McCafe in Yass (hey, I’m on holiday!) I was reminded of how little we suffer with flys in Canberra. They were incessant and insistent. Interestingly, I didn’t notice them again in Wagga.

Typical of me, I had to buy this project book in Wagga because I didn’t pack the one I had prepared earlier! [This was the ‘scrapbook’ that I’ve transcribed here.]

I’ve been paying more attention to the landscape as I’ve been driving. Firstly, it’s pretty green at the moment. But I also note that, as someone commented to me recently, the horizon is always close by. Sometimes very close and sometimes a way’s off, but always hilly and (relatively) close.

By the time I got to Hay, the landscape had flattened out quite a bit. But as I’ve been driving alongside the Murrumbidgee most of the afternoon, the horizon (defined by the trees bordering the river) was never far away.

Hay is a pleasant little town, pretty much all in one street, but pretty, friendly, and welcoming.

It’s been fun just driving. As Maureen [Campbell] said yesterday, the first time the drive [across the Hay plain] is interesting. I can see how, after doing it several times, you could get quite tired of the constant flatness. And, for most of the day, I seemed to be the only one going my way!

Still trying to remember that I’m on holiday, that the only things I have to achieve are to get to my destination. But I think I’m getting better at it!

Stayed overnight in the Nicholas Royal Motel, right in the middle of Hay. Dinner at the Jolly Jumbuck Bistro next door. Very country town atmosphere.