Driving Miss Dizzy

Friday night, the wife came home and announced we will go to Beechworth for the long weekend. Her friend told her Beechworth is a beautiful country town and is famous for its bakery.

With little time, I did a quick search on the net for lodging and places to visit. I told my wife we may drive there early on Saturday and explore the place. If there is nothing interesting we will come back the same day. But my wife wanted to go to Victoria Market on Saturday Morning.

Anyway by the time she came back from Vic’s market, unpack her shopping, packing our bags for one night stand it was 11am. So we headed down Springvale to Eastern Freeway, I was telling her it will take about 3½ to 4 hour to get to Beechworth depending on the traffic. By the time we get there it will give us an hour or 2 to see the place and explore the town. You see, in country town, shops close early. So it means having put up a night and if there were nothing to see it will be a waste.

Quarter way, my wife cum navigator changed her mind and decided we go somewhere nearer. A quick take and we decided to go and visit Lake Eildon, since both of us have not been there before. Instead of heading North East, we turned East for Lake Eildon.

My able Navigator began to look for the Melway (A thick book of Victoria Road Map) in the car. Oh, oh, she cannot find it and we were driving blindly. The Melway was removed from the car by my BIL when he was here on holiday and forgot to put it back.

We could turn back or take a chance. My wife was game to take a chance and this is a first for her. So we kept driving.

To Be Continued.......