Monday, 20 September 2004 What will this trip away bring? I'm sitting in another motel, this time in the South Australian town of Millicent. I arrived via Ballarate, Hamilton and Mount Gambia. It included one stretch of road west of Hamilton that I had never driven on before. Millicent is not a large town but it does have more then one Child Care Centre. I remember a few years ago I worked in another Kindergarten in town. Booked into the Diplomat Motor Inn which sounds pretty up market. Its a nice enough motel and the owners are friendly. The room I'm in, seems to be equipped for pensioners. Bars in the bathroom allows you to move from the shower to the toilet then to the wash bowl without loosing your grip on a handle. The shower ... read more

Sunday, 5 September 2004 After getting back from Beechworth I spent two nights in Melbourne before leaving on Sunday morning for a trip to the west of Victoria. Most of the day was taken up driving to Warrnambool. Booked into the City Heart Motel. The room has cable TV and the accommodation is good. Messed around on the computer for a while before ordering a meal from a local restaurant which was delivered just after six o'clock. Watched TV for the rest of the evening. Monday, 6 September 2004 The weather has been good and I hope it stays that way. It was a nine o'clock start. As I walked through the door of the three year old kindergarten, I introduced myself to the two ladies who were in charge of the centre. Didn't get a ... read more

Sunday, 15 August 2004 It's been a very long day, that consisted of a eight hundred kilometer drive, taking nine hours to complete. The Princes Highway starts a few suburbs from the centre of Melbourne and I joined it on the outskirts of Dandenong. Traveling towards the east, the road took me through many towns I have already worked in, Warragal, Morwell, Traralgon, Sale and Bairnsdale. Some of these have been visited this year. It was a good run out of Victoria. Mostly blue sky's with some scattered clouds that bought patches of rain. It was around two o'clock in the afternoon when I made my first stop at the Gippsland town of Cann River. Half an hour later I crossed into New South Wales. The weather got worst after I crossed the border. This part ... read more

Monday, 2 August 2004 I had been to Bairnsdale early on this year. On that occasion I spent a lot of my spare time looking for wild life in the local swamp. This morning I carried my gear next door. The centre is next to the motel. I worked my way through all the rooms, doing what I could until time ran out. The children that missed being photographed will have to wait until tomorrow. Back at the motel I trimmed twelve exposed spools of film, (results of three hours work) packed them into a box and headed off to the post office. Tuesday, 3 August 2004 I dreaded going to work this morning, I knew it was going to be hectic. Baby room first, soon run out of new children in that room. Into the ... read more

Sunday, 28 June I started my week by spending six hours behind the wheel driving to Adelong in NSW. We are in the middle of winter and the weather was typical of this time of year. On my journeys up the Hume Freeway I usually take my first break at a town called Holebrook, about half an hour east of Albury. It was around three in the afternoon when I arrived outside the Bed and Breakfast establishment in the main street of Adelong. The room was very basic but comfortable. After taking in my overnight bag I decided there was favourable weather for a trip to the Adelong Falls. Beside the creek are ruins of an old gold mining company. History tells us, it was one of the first areas in NSW to find gold in ... read more