Thanks to the global pandemic it is 927 days (2 years, 6 months, 1 week and 5 days) since we last posted! And ... it is nearly eight months since Bernie retired. His ‘celebrating retirement’ holiday has been planned, scaled back, re-planned and rescheduled multiple times but, finally, we have left Melbourne and indeed Victoria behind us and we are in South Australia. This morning we packed the MU-X and set out for Horsham where we had arranged to meet up with our travelling companions, Cathy and Steve. It was quite grey in Melbourne and when we reached West Ballan for our first stretch break it started to drizzle. We continued in drizzle and rain and when we stopped in Stawell we had to stick to the shop verandahs to stay dry as we stretched our
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