Thursday

Woke around 6:30am. Packed, cooked a lamb chop, egg, and two bit of toasted olive bread, which i bought yesterday. Cup of tea. I need to travel light today, for the 27k to my son & daughter-in-law's place in Bendigo. So... i left all my excess food and stuff in the fridge, labelled, and checked with the proprietor of the Motel, if i could come back after dinner at my son's place tonight, and get them. She was cool about that.

Tried to go through the next storylet in a first Century record of one the the most admirable humans i know of. Strange how a person determined to help others can get to be hated so much.

Walked most of the way on the outside of the perimeter fence of the Calder Highway. Sometimes there was a dirt track  for mail boxes, or even a bitumen  road there. Sometimes lovely grassy patches.

 Sometimes prickly spider filled shrubby trees or long grass. 

Sometimes I'd cross the freeway to a road along the other side for a few km 

Mostly without hiking sticks today. Sometimes i find one or two if i think thete might be dogs about.

Just passed Big Hill about 10km S of Bendigo, walking in the drains above the road.

I try to wave to people when i can as they drive past, if they see me. 

Stopped for about an hour with my feet up a tree when i got to with 10km from my destination before 1pm. 

At the beginning of a Bendigo Mational Park walking trail:

Had most of my water, and ate a handful of trailmix. I'm under a tree in the shade downhill from this gate.

Sent a text to a few friends saying come with a cuppa if you have time. I think everyone is busy today. No probs. 

Hope to make it to my son & daughter-in-law's place before dinner tonight.

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