Okay delayed blogs are permissible. Last night was spent in Orange with my old school friend John Maloney, his wife Anne at the home of their daughter Pippa and her husband Jamie and children Tommie and Amelia.

Up to then the day was a pleasant drive up from Cowra with not a lot to see. It was however a nice drive until I got to Cargo after which the road deteriorated lots. Pippa and family live in a very nice part of town where Jamie is the newly appointed dealer principle for a number of vehicle dealerships. The view from their house is very nice and their hospitality was great. During the afternoon John gave me an extensive tour of the town which is rather big and has some very nice historical buildings.

Today I took off for Bathurst stopping at Millthorpe which is another of these towns with lovely old buildings, on the way. Then at Bathurst the first thing was a obligatory two laps of the Mount Panorama Circuit, the first behind a very slow, about 40km, ute and the second for a bit of freedom and to take some photographs. Do not get the wrong idea I did not drive fast but at a more reasonable and continuous, except for the photographs from the top of the hill, pace. Then a good look around town and onwards.

Onwards was a rather nice up hill and down dale drive to Sofala. It is a very small village and I had a good look around. That included spending some time in a overgrown broken cemetery where the grave stones turned out to be almost illegible.

Then back to Bathurst where I have fallen in with a group of CMCA solos.