I'll take my last 50 minute bus ride into Cairns tomorrow to pick up a rental car. Returning to Clifton Beach just long enough to jam my earthly possessions into it, and then head south toward my first destination, Innisfail. From what people tell me it will only take about 5 minutes to tour this 8000 person town. But it has a special place in my heart. My ex and I were thinking of buying a piece of property minutes way from it. A little acre of land that came complete with its own house/barn.
Then it's off to Mission Beach. People say it's beautiful, but still suffering the fallout from Cyclone Yasi. From there it's off to Townsville where I'll spend the night. I was going to stay in a stylish hotel in the restaurant district, but got suckered in by a deal on Hotwire.com. If you've never searched hotels on the site, believe me you get incredible deals. I've stayed in some upscale, 4 star +, rooms for a fraction of the going rate. The chance you take is the hotels aren't revealed until after purchase. You get a general area of where it's situated and an overview of amenities. Alas, this time my gamble didn't quite pay off, and I was saddled with a Holiday Inn about 6 blocks from the location I wanted. Who knows, maybe I'll be in for a treat.
The rest of my journey will, I hope, take me to some of the world's most beautiful destinations, the Bundaberg Rum Factory (people keep warning me not to consume this rum, now I just want it more), and perhaps the Australia Zoo, home of the Steve Irwin family. Crikey! What an adventure.
But things don't always go as planned. I have to worry about car breakdowns, inclement weather, and flooding near Brisbane. I'm just going to "throw caution to the wind, and let the chips fall where they may" (from one of my favourite movies of my youth, True Romance).
Jimmy
have fun!
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