20181226.1 – Wednesday – Keith to Dimboola

20181226.1 – Wednesday – Keith to Dimboola

As I mentioned previously, I didn’t sleep one wink last night, so I have been tired today.

I stopped at a layby parking spot for a break. 

I pulled up in the shade of some trees off the road, and climbed into my trailer for a nap.

It was cooler by far in my trailer than it was outside, and so once again I realised that the $350 I had spent was worth every penny of it.

The “window” flap at the back of my trailer has not been insulated, and at first I had the flap unzipped, but I could feel the difference in temperature on my feet.

So I closed he window up again and zipped everything up, and that cooled my feet down too.

Everything is a learning experience.

I watched a netflix movie for a while and then measured my sugar levels.

12.1 was my sugar level at 12 noon and so I took 20 Lantus and 10 Novarapid.

It is strange, but when I don’t eat a full meal, my sugar levels go up, when I would have though they should have gone down.

God understands how my body works better than I do, that’s for sure!

Still 20 lantus and 10 Novarapid at his time of day (it is now 2 pm) is not too bad, considering once upon a time I was taking 80 Lantus and 30 Novarapid to cover my sugar levels at this time in the afternoon. And then after that I would have had to take another 30 of each.

So I am putting only a small amount of insulin into my system each day, these days.

I stopped for a break at Nhill at the Caltex service station there.  I purchased a chicken kebab from the Asian owners/workers in the cafe there.

It was disgusting, over cooked and burnt, but I needed to have some protein on hand for later this afternoon.

I will only eat it if I have no other options.

I still have some salami in my esky that will do for protein, I guess.

It is wonderful travelling with no time-constraints.  

I know I have days before I need to get to Melbourne.

I stopped at a place along the highway where volunteers are offering coffee breaks for free to try to avoid the crashes that occur around about Nhill and Dimboola.

From there I drove on to Dimboola. 

In 1955, in summer, travelling in Dad’s old Chevy we stopped at Dimboola.

There were fires and it was unbelievably hot, pretty much like it is today, though no fires.

We came to Dimboola and I was so hot that I jumped into the water with my clothes on.

 

Nancy King came with us, I think it was when my brother Charles went to Sydney to pick up his fiancée, Beth Joseph and bring her back to Adelaide to live until they got married. 

Anyway, Nancy and I took photos of each other in our bathers sitting on a diving board that was there in those days.

If I really searched I know I could find the photos but it is too hot to be bothered right now.

I am sitting crosswise in my trailer typing this, which I could not have done, I am sure, if my trailer was NOT insulated.

It is a good thing I brought some food with me, because there are no shops open today, or at least I haven’t seen any and it is too hot to go looking.

So my diet this evening is going to be what I have in “my larder,”which consists of carrots, avocado, nuts, grapes dates, mushrooms and the last bit of salami, so I will have to make do.

I have just taken my sugar level and it is 6.00. 

Wow, that is so good.

The people who are staying here at Dimboola have largish rig and they use be staying here for some time.

I bet they are all air conditioned as well.

Well, my trailer is not air conditioned but it IS insulated.