Day: 04
Date: Monday, 21 October 2019
Start: New Norfolk
Finish: New Norfolk
Daily Kilometres: 0.0 TT (+ ~4.0 around town)
Total TT Kilometres: 101.0
Weather: Mostly sunny, cool and breezy
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Egg & bacon croissant
Lunch: Curried egg & lettuce roll, vanilla slice
Dinner: Chicken pasta
Aches: My feet welcomed the day off.
Highlight: None really.
Lowlight: None really.
Journal:
I was up late last night working out the best way to technically manage my blog and redoing Day 2, while watching English crime shows on TV and didn't get up until after 7am. I then spent some time drying out my damp tent from yesterday, and after that, trying to clean up all the dried twigs, leaves and dirt that fell on my room floor as I repacked.
I later walked into town, about ten minutes away, had some breakfast at a cafe and attended to a couple of chores.
Firstly, I mailed back home my topographical maps, which are relatively heavy and haven't been used at all thus far. I'm navigating using a GPS track on the Maps.me app, which is working well, and also have the hardcopy sketch maps of the entire track produced by the trail management organisation. I'm a bit reluctant to be primarily dependent on a battery-operated device, but it has worked well for all of my recent hikes, and I'm carrying a battery powerpack.
Secondly, the jack for my headphones does not fit through the designated port in my protective phone case, so I bought another set of headphones that seemed likely to work (later I found out they don't work either, though they seem to fit ….. looks like I will have to continue just using my little AM/FM radio for occasional entertainment, but that's OK).
New Norfolk is smaller than I expected and doesn't take long to walk around. While doing so, I made several observations.
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The largest shopfront on the main street was the Reject Shop (Dollar Store).
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They had toe warmers on display for sale at the Post Office counter.
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There was a butcher shop on the main street selling only pet meat.
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There are a lot of large derelict buildings in and around town.
After a lazy afternoon planning, TV-watching and napping, I walked back into town to get some dinner. I'm looking forward to a relatively easy day tomorrow on backroads in the Derwent valley.
The largest shopfront on the main street was the Reject Shop (Dollar Store).
They had toe warmers on display for sale at the Post Office counter.
There was a butcher shop on the main street selling only pet meat.
There are a lot of large derelict buildings in and around town.
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