July 20th: Rest Day in Rockhampton
Day 280
Quite expensive for a caravan park, but close to the grocery store and with clean amenities including a kitchen, we decided to stay another day in Rockhampton Riverside Caravan Park. We have found that cheap wine in the bottle is a good value, and doesn’t necessarily taste like cheap wine. Whereas the box or crate wine, as they call it here, is more like drinking alcoholic grape juice.
Budget creep has not only happened in our drink choices but also in our grocery choices. No longer do we fret over a dollar here and a dollar there. Not that we are living extravagantly, but instead of plain oatmeal, we get muesli, and instead of pasta with a can of tinned fish, we get fresh meat. We haven’t succumbed to eating in a restaurant yet, but who knows what the future will bring.
We spent the remainder of the day truly resting. There would be no typing nor maintenance. Just pure rest and reading. We have recently become addicted to Colleen McCouloughs Master’s of Rome Series, after we serendipitously picked up the first book, The First Man In Rome, of the four-part series. This has filled the void nicely left by the end of Game of Thrones. We have to speculate that this period of history was an inspiration for George R.R. Martin, given the similarities in blood lust, corruption, and political intrigue.
