Finding more Harvest work
Quiet road north
After finally securing decent information about work I left Melbourne towards Shepparton about 200km straight north. It’s not on the planned route to Sydney but I need work and this is where I’ll secure the work to extend my visa so I can come back in the future and do the whole work/travel thing all over again. Victoria is pretty well populated so there were plenty of different routes out of the city, I was spoilt for choice.
The road north of Melbourne was the easiest exit from a city so far, I just latched onto the wheel of a big guy who came past me out for a training ride. He didn’t seem to mind me being there so I sucked his wheel for all it was worth. When he did finally turn around to go back I was out in the country away from all traffic. Using only my wits and the sun to guid me I kept going roughly North. To save some money I didn;t get a map of Victoria, I’ve only a photo of a map but it’s not too hard to make your way without one.
It was midday before I left Melbourne so it was a pretty short day in the saddle, just what I needed after 10 days in Melbourne. I passed through a few small towns and villages eventually ending up in Seymour as the sun dropped from view. Its a fairly nondescript place, and a few km outside town I camped where two motorways intersected. It was not nearly as bad as it sounds, there was a huge space between the junctions and you could barely hear the traffic. The ground was covered in tall green grass which is something of a novelty around here, but it made for a wonderfully comfortable bad. Strange the things that make you happy at the end of a day.