The Start Of Our Travels

So we finally left the Blue Mountains... A few family hugs and kisses first...

Second a sacred saging ceremony to bless ourselves and our van and the long journey together.

 

Then we were off for Central NSW and all that Orange had to offer. The time had arrived at last...and left us with an air of excitement, but also nerves.

The smooth, picturesque drive to Orange was pleasant and soothing (especially with Yol's dance trance spiritual mixes she left us with :). It was so strange, less than 2 hours from the Blue Mountains and we were welcomed into Central NSW. The air changed, the scene changed, the dryness of the land really became apparent. We looked at each other and wondered 'could we really be in central NSW already'. Apparently so...we felt that we were so close to our family in the mountains yet so far far away.

The time finally arrived, we had hit our first destination. The excitement was overwhelming as we began to see winery signs and country style homewares shops...and local cherries ($5.99 kg) too. We made our way slowly into Orange and to our 'Colour Caravan Park'. True name I kid you not. We laughed as we checked it and looked around. For a moment, we felt like trailer trash from the wrong side of the railway tracks. We are pleased to say though, that there aren't 50 000 000 little kids running around in dirty clothes. Instead we have a nice quiet spot next to the Orange Showground, and the bathrooms and showers are some of the cleanest you'll ever see (you know...that big shower head that hits you so hard it's like a massage all over your body, but makes you feel guilty that there is such a wastage of water :)

We decided we'd slowly give back our crystals to nature all around the country....slowly, mindfully, one at a time.

Like good tourists, we drove around in town after setting up camp/tent, to find a decent place to buy some groceries. Wollies...hopeless! We were hoping that being in a country town we might be blessed with a supermarket that supplies good quality local grass fed meat. Unfortunately not the case. We were going to go on a mission to find some, somehwhere! Anywhere! And low and behold....we were saved by Harris Farm Fruit Market. Believe it or not we got CAPE GRIM TASSIE GRASS FED MEAT. Dom's mates back at GRUB Butchers in Vaucluse would be very proud indeed!!

Let's just say the photos of our first meal speak for themselves. Leonie was so excited she couldn't contain it and had to take photos of our dinner and message it to everyone from Bondi to Hobart...hehehe! All this was washed down with a couple of nice glasses of Jansz Sparkling from Tasmania (thanks very thoughtfully to Wendy, a former client of Dom's who gave us this bottle to enjoy on our first night on the trip. Much appreciated!!)

This is our very romantic candle lit dinner......aweeee love! 

Now it's time for bed for us because we have a big first day tomorrow.....oh yeah forgot to mention that we picked up some work at a winery for a few days (Belgravia Wines), that starts tomorrow for us. It's all started.......