Oddities along the Way

Today I drove about 6 hours north from Katoomba staying in the mountains and trees for a full day. Again, as is the case in this range, most of the trip was on ridgetops, dropping into valleys here and there.

Services were limited and the one below provides a possible marketing lesson and a lesson on first impressions.

The Halfway Roadhouse. Sure did not fail due to a competitor across the road. There was nothing for 30 miles either way. Quite a metal man greeter, huh?

Maybe it was this little guy standing at the entrance. Not a super friendly first impression. Loved his shoes.

And, then there was a sign for “Trucker’s Memorial” park.  OK, so let’s stop and see this!

Looks like I had been driving along a far more dangerous road than I thought.  Pretty interesting commentary to read.

A close up of the individual memorials. Note how many were killed versus just died naturally. And note in the overall photo how much room there is left on the walls.

Well, I do not know if everything  is bigger in Australia, but their tires sure are!

To entertain myself on this journey (besides the above sorts of things) I brought my ancient iPod along, which proceeded to die in the first hour. Ok, now what? I found some of my purchased music on my phone, but it was in the cloud so I tried streaming that. After failing to complete any one song due to lack of cell coverage in the remote mountains, I though just what will I do for entertainment when I get really “out back?” I got to my motel in Denman and called Darin, my in house Kasala expert at all sorts of stuff. He helped me figure out how to download the music from the cloud to the phone, thus saving the trip, or at least my sanity. As with everything related to phones and me, it was super easy if only I really looked at it.