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Day 79: Canberra, ACT to Sydney, NSW

It was beautiful morning this morning, but a sad one. It’s time to get ready to leave. If I said it before, I apologize, but our trip has been like a wonderful novel that you wish to know how it ends, but you don’t want it to end. But end it must, and today marks the beginning of the end. We put off repacking all our stuff and getting ready to leave as long as possible, but we did have to be in Sydney by nightfall and we wanted to take the King’s Highway (which is the long way) to get there as we hadn’t gone that way before. We finally got all our things repacked and bid adieu to our wonderful friends and hosts who did so much to make our trip the wonderful adventure it has been. There is no way we can thank them for all they did, and we hope that they will soon find their way to our home. It would be so much fun to do a drive-about the U.S. with them.

The drive to Sydney takes you through more windy, mountain roads until you reach the coast and even then, you find the road very hilly and windy. The east coast of Australia is totally unlike the east coast of the U.S. in that the mountains and foothills come right down to the coast and often end in abrupt cliffs falling straight into the ocean. There are lowlands along some of the coast, but not most it, and therefore, you don’t find the long, straight and level roads you find along the east coast of the U.S. So it takes a lot longer to go the same distance at home. But it’s beautiful.

We arrived in Sydney just before sunset and slowly made our way to the hotel (actually a youth hostel) in central Sydney. Getting here was a challenge due to the traffic. While I have been driving on the wrong (I’m sorry, the left) side of the road for nearly three months, I haven’t had to do that in anything like Sydney traffic which resembles DC traffic at rush hour. But we made it, safe and sound; checked in and brought our things to our room. Believe it or not, parking in Sydney is not only a challenge, but it’s expensive. Overnight parking at the hostel is A$25 and that’s about as cheap as you’ll find it. Our friends in Canberra had to pay about A$115 to park overnight when here last week. Because parking is so expensive and because we are in the central part of the city where public transportation is plentiful, we will turn in our rental car early and rely entirely on public transportation for the last couple of days of our stay. So we had to empty out the car and bring everything up to our room to reorganize and repack. That pretty much took the remainder of the evening except for dinner out at a Chinese restaurant.

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Enough work, tomorrow we play. Tomorrow will be a sightseeing day in Sydney.

Cheers,
Wayne & Peggy