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Sat Apr 6 02:57:21 2002 (nmcfarl) Book: Australia Rough Guide Location: 'EMAIL ADDRESSES CHANGING' A little house keeping note here. Onebox has started charging for there services, just about at the same time as they have started messing with the design, and cutting back the cool stuff. So I'm switching my onebox email to nmcfarl@nmcfarl.org and our collective email to nathan.mcfarland@nmcfarl.org . The messages from those accounts now have the new address as the reply to and for the next 15 days or so they will also forward to the new accounts. The link on the side of this page has also been updated. Sat Apr 6 02:47:46 2002 (rr) Book: Australia Rough Guide Location: VIctoria! australian list: a) looking for strange southern sky constellations on deserted wine-country roads. b) motoring through the Grampians in the Porsche on a sunny day c) hook turns in Melbourne at night d) wandering through bat-infested (flying everywhere!) fern gullies in the Melbourne botanical garden e) running along the beach in Lorne I'm going to go into some more detail on a few of these. a) looking for strange southern sky constellations on deserted wine-country roads. We drove an hour or so out of Melbourne into the Yarra Valley, which is a famous wine region in Victoria. I really wish I could ship back lots of pinot noir to start my collection, because they are famous for it here. We stayed in the town of Warburton for a night at the Alpine Retreat hotel. The Alpine is an art-deco style hotel with the traditional pub attached. We were the only guests in the hotel. Nathan and Brandon found it somewhat scary. (perhaps they would say "freaky") At 8 pm or so we decided to go find a winery with a restaurant. They weren't open. We did find a nice deserted road on the way to one winery where we parked the car and looked at the stars. I picked up a map of the southern skies earlier that week, so we could finally see things other than Orion and the Southern Cross. The Milky Way was magnificent. We learned to find Centaurus and the SOuthern Triangle as well. Plus a large Magellanic cloud. Afterwards we drove around for an hour looking for an open restaurant. SInce we were in such a rural area nothing was open. (THe general area reminds me of the Hudson Valley). Eventually we drove to the nearest large town, Lilydale, and found the MacDonalds. As we drove up they switched the lights off. We crossed the street to KFC, which was open for an additional five minutes. We dined on our Family meal in our hotel room. c) hook turns in Melbourne at night There are trams that run down the middle of streets in Melbourne. If you want to make a right-hand turn across the intersection, you have to pull all the way over to the left hand side of the intersection and wait for the light to turn red. At that point you make the turn. I got to perform two of those last night. |
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