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MY FIRST COVID LONG DISTANCE JOURNEY
My coming trip to Orange is full of exciting anticipation. For one thing, I will visit my third grandchild for the third time since her birth. The family will celebrate her First Birthday on Sunday. She's my eldest daughter and partner's first child.
As travel bans are now lifted, this is going to be my first long distance trip away from the city under the C-19 period. Though I favoured a relaxing nightly travel, I also find the smooth chug of early morning train exhilarating. So morning it will be, in a cold chilly 9-degrees Celsius forecast otherwise a sunny day later on Friday.
All these travels in "unholy hours" are in fact the most sacred times to go which perchance make you able to free your mind from worries and strain of uncertainties where this world is heading to. The atmosphere around the globe is suffocated with fake news and false rhetorics of the insane minds. I just take everything with a grain of salt.
Part of the restrictive measures by Trainlink stated that passengers are required to bring their own essentials like hand sanitisers, mask, and water. And like the intercity trains, I expect social distancing to be strictly adhered too. Akin to that, I will also expect that the kiosk will be non-operational. That's the least of my concern as my carriage doesn't favour the proximity to that car.
I miss the country rustic views of rugged mountain landscape - oftentimes treeless, woody forests, the dense white ghost gums, the charming bushland, grassy hills, the kangaroos and wallabies grazing and hopping along the countryside, the sheep marching through the paddocks, cows taking shelter under the trees, if not drinking water by the creeks and horses standing by the wire fence.
My coming trip to Orange is full of exciting anticipation. For one thing, I will visit my third grandchild for the third time since her birth. The family will celebrate her First Birthday on Sunday. She's my eldest daughter and partner's first child.
As travel bans are now lifted, this is going to be my first long distance trip away from the city under the C-19 period. Though I favoured a relaxing nightly travel, I also find the smooth chug of early morning train exhilarating. So morning it will be, in a cold chilly 9-degrees Celsius forecast otherwise a sunny day later on Friday.
All these travels in "unholy hours" are in fact the most sacred times to go which perchance make you able to free your mind from worries and strain of uncertainties where this world is heading to. The atmosphere around the globe is suffocated with fake news and false rhetorics of the insane minds. I just take everything with a grain of salt.
Part of the restrictive measures by Trainlink stated that passengers are required to bring their own essentials like hand sanitisers, mask, and water. And like the intercity trains, I expect social distancing to be strictly adhered too. Akin to that, I will also expect that the kiosk will be non-operational. That's the least of my concern as my carriage doesn't favour the proximity to that car.
I miss the country rustic views of rugged mountain landscape - oftentimes treeless, woody forests, the dense white ghost gums, the charming bushland, grassy hills, the kangaroos and wallabies grazing and hopping along the countryside, the sheep marching through the paddocks, cows taking shelter under the trees, if not drinking water by the creeks and horses standing by the wire fence.