Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Rime of the Ancient Subaru Driver

It is a slight cheat putting this post under a blog mentioning ticks, since there shouldn't be any paralysis ticks in the area we are visiting.
However: if there were any drought resistant Ixodes holocyclus in Western NSW, Eyre Peninsula or the Barossa Valley, I am sure Tammy the Wonder Dog (hereafter TWD ) would draw them in like flies to a mouldy rissole.

In a previous epic folk had trouble navigating as the publication dates are not the dates of the events.  To overcome that I have created an Index Page for this trip.  Each post will conclude with a link back to that (and another on to the next page in the narrative).

The plan is to drive to
  • Sunraysia (NE Victoria, SW New South Wales); then to 
  • Coffin Bay on Eyre Peninsula; then
  • Barossa Valley SA;
  • Marino (a suburb of Adelaide SA); and 
  • Home.
Following the precedent of the trip to Sri Lanka, each day, after my usual waffle, we will try to comment on:
  • Bird of the day;
  • Plant of the day;
  • Most interesting thing of the day; and
  • What we learnt today.
Following Frances recent poetry readings we will compile a poetic version of the trip.  Specifically we will adapt a verse of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge  The entire epic will appear in an appended post.

In our discussions there appears to be a fair amount of interest food and drink en route so I anticipate having a special page on piggings.

Most of this trip will be just the three of us, but we will meet up with Rob and Carol (from the Sri Lanka trip) and their progeny on Day 2.

TO INDEX PAGE