Holiday: O and Northam

Saturday 16 August 2020

Should we go for a run? Or should we prepare for a week away... So of course we go for a run. Forty minutes jogging plus warm up and cool down walking.

Time to pack. Every so often we think of something and get it ready to pack. Late in the afternoon I start loading some stuff into the truck (ie the Prado). One item is the small gas cooker.

I test the one that I bought ten or twenty years ago. Insert the tin of gas, turn the gas on. Flames blossom all over the cooker, I blow them out. We buy a new cooker.

Sunday 17th

Finish packing clothes into suitcases, finish loading the truck.

Loading the truck is a bit of a challenge: we have stuff for the driving holiday -- plus stuff for today's orienteering. The O gear has to be accessible for the event.

Orienteering is at Peterdine, an hour and a half's drive. It rains all the way.

There is a time of sunshine as we prepare to run... excellent. Then it starts raining again. I spent more than twenty minutes circling round to find the first control. I find one more control... cut off most of the course... find a few final controls.

Deb finishes her course :-)  The sun is shining :-)

It starts raining again. We do have a picnic lunch -- but drive to Northam for lunch in a cafe. Sitting indoors watching the rain over the river. Much nicer than a picnic in the rain :-)

The gps has trouble finding our motel... Who would have thought that Northam would have Duke St, Duke St E and Duke St W!

We check in and relax, it's two comfortable rooms with air conditioners. Which are now on -- heating.

We wash our soaking wet O gear. The motel dryers are broken so running gear is hanging all over the rooms.

We relax, waiting on dinner time.

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