Day 1 / Saturday (Sydney – Nyngan, 534km/331 miles)

Max and I left home, and stopped within 5 mins to fill up with fuel for the first day on the road.
While we were there, I got a call from Cath advising us that it had rained up in Grafton last night, which meant that there would definitely be no cane firing tonight.
Mmmm.
Didn’t count on that.
So, given that the likelihood of witnessing cane firing tonight was precisely zero, I made the decision to reverse the direction of our trip. That will bring us to Grafton toward the end of the week.
No guarantee of cane firing then either, but our chances can’t be worse than what we’ve got today.
So, we hit the road west, aiming for Dubbo.
We got there by about 3:30 in the afternoon.
I gave Max a choice.
Tomorrow night, we aim to be in Wilcannia.
If we stay here (Dubbo), we’ll be on the road for about 6.5 hours tomorrow.
Or, we do another 2 hours tonight, which would get us to Nyngan, and then we have a short day of 4.5 hours on the road tomorrow.
Max voted for the latter option, so we pushed on.
And so here I am sitting in the last motel room available in town (there’s a local race meeting on apparently) writing this blog entry.
The motel room is very basic, but it’ll do the job for the night.

Take me to: Day 2 ->