Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?

Tarago, Southern TableLands, New South Wales

I noticed today, after a barrage of emails between 6 friends, that it is only 25days, until I once again board an airplane and travel to a distant land away from Active Directory, Blackberrys and Sydney Transport.

Today however, is a day quite different from all other working days in the past year and several spare months in that, I left the concrete jungle. After a client of mine expanded to another office in a place called Woodlawn, I was to set up their new network at this site. Cooler still was the “void” I got a tour of, a hole in the ground that’s currently taking much of Sydneys waste… and will one day produce enough methane to generate electricity! Okay, that’s probably one of the least cool things I’ve written but hey… better than lining up for a gate pass at Mascot train station.

Now it’s not often that I mix business with blogging, but it is since leaving work just after 6pm this evening that I was given a refreshing blast from the past. With my camera at hand, the sun shining into the dusk and a set of wheels giving me complete freedom; I was given a huge dose of the travel bug.

I stopped at several random spots that looked interesting enough to take pictures at. Whilst approaching a log in a field, I disturbed a hare that went bounding off into the dry bushy grass. I spotted some Gala’s (pink birds) in Tarago before taking my Holden 35kms into Goulburn, the nearest major town. I was finally, after a day without, back in an area with some mobile phone reception.

I headed back to The Loaded Dog in Tarago, a pub with some 100yr+ old history where I was to sleep for the night. At $35, I felt somewhere between two moods; a) why am I booked up in such a cheap room tonight? And b) wow, it’s just like back-packing again!

So here I am, still 25 days till I depart for India; that’s 18 days at work, with a visa still to obtain, a snowboard still to receive in the post, approximately 10-11 more gym sessions to squeeze in and a whole bunch of other stuff I really can’t wait for… 2008 is off to a flyer!

You can see these pictures and more from my little road trip at http://www.fonfara.blogspot.com/.