20190113 – Sunday – Glengarry to Warragul
I woke up this morning at the Apex Park in Glengarry.
My parking spot last night was along a path between the trees.
It was an ideal location for an overnight stay.
I like to choose a sport near a reserve in or on the outskirts of town.
A place like the apex park with its little tables and shelter and playground makes me feel safe.
A couple in a motor home drove up right behind where I had parked and it looked like they were going to camp for the night as well.
Thankfully they didn’t.
It would have been very inconsiderate of them to park so close to my car, but they only used the playground for a short while and then drove off again.
As I said, I woke up, and immediately was aware that I had had a simply marvellous sleep.
I felt refreshed and sooo comfortable.
It took me another half hour to persuade myself to sit up and start getting things organised.
What I am loving about this trip is the fact that I have no, or few, deadlines.
I can just wander along, and stop anywhere that the mood takes me.
It is interesting, ever since I have been travelling with my trailer have been finding new ways to do things.
This time I have found that it is better for me to sleep with my head at the window end of my trailer and not at the front.
The reason for this is that I keep my clothes and towels and things in the corner beside my pillow if I sleep in the front, and that reduces the room I have to move around.
If I sleep with my head at the window end, I have much more room to move.
When I get home, I am going to need a pair of pliers to bend some of the hooks front the ceiling of my trailer, so that things I hang up there will not fall down during travel.
I also need some hooks on the other side of my ceiling in the trailer because then I don’t have to have everything on the one side.
Also I have found that I should put my ipad in my trailer on charge WHILE I am travelling to make sure it is always charged.
I used to carry my food next to me on the passenger seat in my car while I travel.
Now I put my “green bag” of food in the trailer, and then when I want to have a meal, I put the tailgate down and sit on it and eat my meal in some pleasant and shady parking spot.
This morning, the food that I had purchased at Woolworths a few days ago had almost run out.
So I keyed in “Woolworths” and drove to it and parked in a double car park in the car park.
I am getting pretty good in my shopping now.
I know all the things I need in my shopping list, which is pretty well as follows.
A number of small cans of tuna and salmon. I like the spicy ones, like chilli.
Yes, Darren, I know they have sugar in them, but I DON’T like the flavour of just bland tuna or salmon.
Then I go to the veggies section and buy tomato, avocado, spinach leaves, cucumbers (small), carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, cauliflower.
Fruit is usually, blueberries, strawberries, white grapes.
Nuts. I have a big jar of nuts that I keep filled with a mix of nuts, but I LOVE macadamias, and so I find small packets of raw Macadamies, like Franks Macadamias which are huge and delicious.
And that constitutes MY DIET.
When I am hungry, I stop my car, put down the tailgate and sit on it and then take out my “Green Bag” from my trailer and then sit on the tail gate and maybe swing my legs, and sample from each of the containers in my green bag.
I eat maybe a couple of mushrooms, nibble at a carrot.
Put pink salt on my tomatoes and eat a couple of them.
Maybe some cucumber and spinach leaves and work my way through all of the goodies in my green bag.
Then I open a tin of fish (if I haven’t purchased any other protein) and eat that.
Maybe 2 or 3 macadamias,
Half an avocado.
This ensures that I am eating a balanced diet, and nothing but what I SHOULD be eating.
Last night I had a hypo.
I woke up in the middle of the night and I was pouring sweat out all over my body.
I get a hypo only when I have taken too much insulin.
This means, since I had only taken 20 units of Lantus and 20 of Novarapid that night, that I didn’t NEED that much insulin.
So I grabbed for the grapes and consumed them with delight.
You see I am not supposed to eat very much fruit because they increase my sugar levels.
But when I have a hypo, I HAVE to eat sweet stuff to get my sugar levels UP not down.
So I actually ENJOY having a hypo because then I have an excuse to eat grapes and dates which I love and have to eat in very small quantities normally.
So I got my sugar levels down and then washed my sweaty face and hands and went back to sleep and had that beautiful sleep I was telling you about.
So I left Glengarry, and keyed in “Home” on my iPhone and was on my way.
The country side was simply beautiful.
I love Victoria, it is so pretty,
I was somewhere near Moe, I don’ remember exactly where, but I heard a big bump somewhere in the vicinity of my car.
I thought I had driven over maybe a kangaroo or a wombat or something, but I couldn’t work out just what had happened.
The car seemed to be driving okay, so I just kept on.
I decided I needed to go to the loo, so I keyed in “toilets” and drove to a park where the toilets were.
When I got out of my car, I noticed that MY SPARE WHEEL FOR MY TRAILER was missing!!??!!
Oh dear.
I messaged Pauline and Susie, trying to make it into a “funny story.”
I can never compete with Pauline and Susie on that score.
Everything that happens to them is funny!
I don’t have their sense of humor, buy I try.
Barrie said I could pick up a new wheel at a wreckers.
I messaged him that I would wait until I got home and Steve I am sure will organise a new arrangement for me.
I would like to put the wheel somewhere else, maybe back a bit further on the tow bar, so that I could have a little place where I could sit in the remaining tow bar area.
It needs a re-think, I think!
Well, right now I am at Warragul sitting in the cafe of the 3 brothers and an Oven, cafe in the Main Street of Warrugul.
Here I am drinking coffee and writing up my diary, and charging my batteries at the same time.
