Pack & Go
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Packing up is a bitch. I finally found a company that provides the best excess baggage service (in my context, dirt cheap rates), but I have to find my own boxes. Not wanting to use second-hand boxes that either used to have supermarket products in them or was inside a recycling bin, I bought brand new ones instead. There are 7 standard packing cartons and a couple of little shoe boxes, but I have a nagging feeling it might not be enough. Plus there might not even be time.
My best friend will be in Melbourne on Thursday morning on vacation. Before that, I made bookings on tours we could join. First up is the Great Ocean Road on Friday. Bless her soul that she knew about it, because I desperately hoped that she didn't. Don't get me wrong, the coast line is beautiful on a clear day, but this is going to be my third trip there.
Nevertheless, the next tour is something that will more than make up for it and it is something that I've always wanted to see in my lifetime. The Ayers Rock - that piece of giant red rock in the middle of the Australian desert that symbolises Australia. And I'm finally going to see it up close at last! Can't contain my excitment as I count down to the day. The best part is, that it's a camping trip with the stars as our night lights. The tour starts in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory state, so my friend and I will be spending the night at a hotel the night before the first day of tour. Total investment including flights packs a punch as nearly AUS 900, but if I'm doing this once, then heck, who cares about the look of horror on the faces of those people I told.
Then just now, I realised that if I'm going to make this trip worthwhile, my camera skill has to be up to par. And is my no frills digital camera really up to it? What's to point of taking scenic pictures of a national treasure only to have it looking like the ground developed a humongous pimple?
Now where's that manual... |
