The kids and I left Melbourne this morning at about 11 am. We stopped for a toilet break at 12:30, and then Toby slept. He woke just before Albury, so our second stop was at a fabulous playground in Albury. The kids didn’t want to leave, but I wanted to push on, so with a promise to return on our way home, we left. The GPS got me lost in Albury, but we finally made it back to the freeway.
The road is two-lane freeway from Melbourne to Albury, and previously from there to Sydney there would be sections of freeway and sections of single-lane, two-way highway. My recollection of the road between Albury and Holbrook was all two-way highway, so I was very surprised to find it is now freeway the entire way! The Holbrook bypass is being constructed, so in years to come the freeway will extend further, uninterrupted.
We didn’t mind the stop in Holbrook. I had promised the kids a play on the submarine, and I had planned to spend the night there. However, we got there about 4:30, and I figured that Gundagai was only about an hour (and a bit) further on, so at 5;00 we set off on our final 115 km of the day. Again, I was surprised to find the road was freeway the entire way, so it was around 6 pm when we pulled into a motel in the centre go Gundagai. The kids excitedly explored the motel room and then we walked to the local Chinese restaurant for dinner.
