As I was about to leave the house a mate rang. He was using a road trip as an opportunity to catch up. We talked for nearly two hours, from nearly 9am to ~10:45am… A great time to catch up, and he asked for another mate's number as we hung up. Time to catch up. How precious. He helped me understand one of my neighbours better too…
A fellow was passing me in a ute, as we crossed a railway track. He stopped to ask "What's happening?" Ascertained that I was ok, going on a long walk, up to Cape York, and would have stayed for a chat, but a car coming out of a side road behind him made him move. So many thoughtful and interested, interesting people.
Around 2pm I arrived at this sign.
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Though the sun is out at the mo. The sky is nearly completely overcast, and there's a cold wind.
About 1km to go till my rendezvous point with a mate in the next hour. He might even have a thermos with a hot cuppa!
By 2:15pm I'm at the meeting place. If he doesn't arrive by 3pm I'll walk on!
Well, he came. With a nice aeropress coffee, and a biscuit made in Adelaide by his sister. We talked about a novel he is reading, a spiritual thriller. Then we said our goodbyes. ~300 metres down the road, i said "Good day!" To a lady working in her front garden. And made a comment about her garden, or the weather. She asked me what I was doing, (and with enough satisfying answers, I suppose, she asked if I'd like a coffee. I gladly accepted one, which she made back in her kitchen, and we talked with me finishing the coffee in the front yard.
Then I helped Evon with some mattock work on a clump of plants that needed resettling in another spot, said "Good bye",
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walked only 200m from Evon's kind country hospitality before my own good woman tooted the horn behind me, and picked me up,
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right at this spot:
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