http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/PurpleElvis/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from PurpleElvis en-us Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:00 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:00 +0000 I apologise for not updating this. Well sort of. I have just been having too much fun and also dealing with the flu on Thursday. Thank goodness for those pills that you have to show your license for at the chemist. It is just as well we did not get tickets to the crowning of Miss Priscilla as I spent 18 hours in bed on Thursday.This left poor Chad to wander around Peak Hill. Excitingly the othe http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Parkes/blog-362151.html As a relatively small person I am quite enjoying sleeping in my little bunk bed that makes me feel like Gulliver. The mattress is less than posturepedic and leaving the AC on at night led to the cabin becoming as cold as your bottleo. Unfortunately I did not have one of those green quilted jump suits worn by the Jewells Employees.Anyway today we strayed into Parkes. It is quite a small town. 10 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Parkes/blog-361008.html There is no way that I would be in Parkes in a polyester Elvis suit in the next week. I applaud all of those who do it. It is just amazing. It is so hot.We had a good run from Newcastle today. The dogs looked at me with brown eyed eyes that were strangely dog like as they were left at Veronica's Concentration Camp. I think I heard the life is beautiful score as they were taken away.We left from Th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Parkes/blog-360555.html I have to confess that I have been a little bit excited about my odyssey to Parkes. It has always been a mythological place so distant and shrouded in mystery that I have been afraid to pierce the veil in January to find it is just a small country town that eavesdropped on Apollo 11 and gets rather hot in January and is possibly full of well bogans. For me it is a pilgrimage not unlike the musl http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Parkes/blog-360137.html