How to spend your day off

After working six days almost 12 hours a day harvesting, greasing header, losing my wallet in the middle of a huge fied and having VERY stressful time looking for it (eventually found it), driving bloody old trucks and eating/breathing dust, I definitely wanted to do something completely different on my day off. But this time Its slightly easier as I have my veeery own Nissan "Bullseye" Pulsar. After getting myself up and dragging out of bed, I enjoyed eating my breakfast sloowly instead of devouring it asap as usually. Just kidding. Anyways, around 11 AM I headed to the local (30kms) town Gilgandra and explored it, which didn't takee long as the main street is 100m long. Still it provides people everything they need. What I've found very pleasant in Australia is that in almost every town, village or city, there is a Visitors Information Centre (VIC later on) which offers you decent information, toilets, souvenirs and the best, air conditioned temperature.
I always buy postcards from every place I visit and this time didn't make any exception: I left with 4 postcards. They also had a very smartass postcard which was a picture of a gilgandra during the night and guess what it looked like? Comple black =D

After gilgandra I aimed my wheels to Dubbo which is far larger town than gilgandra and I like that. In Dubbo's VIC I came up with very interesting 3D postcards and I had to buy one, especially one with kangaroos and koalas. The piture actually "moves" as you turn the card! They were four dollars each but it's worth it.

Dubbo's city centre is very comprehensive as aussie towns usually. I could spend my day easily just walkng through shops and see around. But I had a necessities I had to look for: Esky, portable gas cooker, 20L water container and some camping equipments for my upcoming travels. I'm planning on sleeeping in a car and need adequate amount of water and cooking stuff. Oh and yes, I did my weekly groceries!

I had a succesful day today and am ready to face next week's challenges. But his week has taught me a very important lesson. I lost my wallet on monday or tuesday and my driving licence, finnish bank card, Australian bank card, travel insurance card, 230 dollars and security guard card with it. Ultimately I found it but it took me about six hours of desperate walking across huge paddock with flies flying around. Usually I don't carry wallet around but this time I had to drive in the public and took it with. That day I learned two very important lessons which are 1) take VERY good care of important things such as wallet or phone or passport (I guess this is obvious for most of you) and the second I consider also extremely important 2) Never EVER give up when there is still hope, even as little as a seed of a mustard and maybe after that, try once more. Don't be naive though; you waste your time loooking for a phone you dropped in the pacific.

Stay laid-back!

Ps. Aussie farmers are not very laid back :D