There's some good country driving out to Mudgee, no highways for the last 100 miles but with good visiability and rolling hills it is enjoyable. Some areas are really dry out there ... we're having a rain issue in inland Austalia at the moment.
Mudgee is an up and coming wine region and Kelly and I really enjoy a couple of the wines from out there ... so a visit to these vineyards was on the cards as was a visit to a couple of olive oil places that were closed last time we went. We stayed at this crazy B&B, the Beverley House... crazy because it is decorated with such ostentacious random stuff that some how works when put all together, we slept on a four post bed with statues all around us ... they added a pool during the past year which was a real bonus as it is usually in the high 90's F this time of year.
Anyways... we get in at 2pm, get the little man settled and head straight out to the main olive oil place we wanted to visit the last time ... closed again, they don't re-open until the first weekend in March (next week!), this story was repeated at every olive oil place around - next time we go it will be March or later. That was the bad, the good was that we saw Kangaroos jumping around in the wild again and our favorite vineyard was having a huge sale for their wine club members, which we are ... an added reason to come visit us, nice wine for dinner every night!
The whole trip was fun, we mixed it up on the way back driving down a few goat tracks to get to some seriously small towns with a ton of character - Lue & Kandos. And to top it all off we get back to Sydney and it has been raining solidly - the rain dances I have been doing since we got our new water tank have worked - I'm the only reliable white shamen working the northern beaches of Sydney!
We live in a land down under where women glow and men thunder! Cheers.
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