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NOVEMBER 2021
TRIP AROUND AUS 2021 Pt2
Part 2. By Liezel Samuel, Member #4412 The Motel shower drill: Finally, a Haircut and a Mixer
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ubstantially warmer weather greeted us as we
1. Turn on the hot water tap and dodge the icicles while the water warms.
left Winton. I love the way the land stretches to 2. Carefully turn on the cold water until the water where tomorrow begins and the clouds hang in the is luke-warm. air like sheep flying off to better fields. 3. Step under water when (thinking) it is a safe A headwind played havoc with our fuel consumption temperature to do so. Careful, as it has the – 6.5 l/100km while doing 110 km/hr. We filled tendency to suddenly turn hot and scald you, or up at Kynuna Roadhouse which brought instant alternatively, very cold! memories of our stop there when we went to Uluru. Same ancient, friendly couple behind the counter. 4. Wet hair. Crocodile Dundee was happy as ever to see us and 5. Turn off both taps to save water. joined us for a drink. I am glad we had the photo taken in the “movie” pub in 2019, as the pub was 6. Shampoo hair. locked up this time round. 7. Repeat steps 1-3. Step 1 is quicker now as water has already warmed up. 8. Rinse hair and turn off both taps to save water. 9. Shampoo hair again as Motel shampoo did not do the job properly the first time. 10. Repeat steps 1-3. 11. Rinse hair, wet and soap loofah and turn off both taps to save water. Arriving in Cloncurry, we visited Chinaman Creek 12. Wash head to toes. Dam and Lookout where Huw and I combined must 13. Repeat steps 1-3. have taken more than a dozen photos of the GS against the beautiful backdrop. 14. Rinse body and turn off hot water to end shower with refreshing cold water. Do you now understand my excitement when I discovered the Gidgee Inn at Cloncurry has a shower with a mixer? An Abrupt U-turn
Luckily, I brought my barber with me, as he gave me a haircut that would last for the rest of our 3-month journey. And after that I may still qualify for Ant Middleton’s SAS training. Be careful what you ask for…
While eating my breakfast cereal with a tiny teaspoon out of a coffee mug (the only utensils supplied by the motel room), I caught site of a Harley Davidson rider exiting his motel room across the parking lot. He was a big fella riding a big Harley, wearing only his BONDS underpants and his Harley Davidson T-shirt. He carefully treaded the pavement on bare feet and strapped his massive swag roll onto the pillion seat. By massive, I mean I would probably not be able to wrap my arms around the roll. Every time he bent over to tighten a strap, his T-shirt lifted to reveal
