Published on Dec. 1, 2008 in Australia

I've been a little delinquent with sharing my life stories, so hopefully this weekend will make up for the last few months.

W and I decided it was time to go camping again, so on Friday night we met up with Remko and Daisy and drove north to near Colo; the middle of nowhere only 45m from the outskirts of Sydney. We set up tent and started cooking dinner: curry! That's right, we were not really roughing it. Soon after curry we curled up into our new two person tent, and quickly fell asleep.

Normally I would like to ease into testing my equipment, but the first night up in the hills threw down an assortment of weather that proved our tent to be more than adequate. I think it rained the majority of the evening, and right on queue stopped when we were ready to get up. We brewed some coffee, and then made omlettes. I'm not certain if what we did was good, but we put the eggs, bacon, and seasoning in little zip-lock baggies and boiled them. The omlettes turned out great, and with the aged cheese, certainly hit the spot.

With the sun rising we jumped into Remko's car (emphasis on car), and went back up to Putty road. About 45m later we were turning off onto the Culoul Range Train, a fire service road that was supposed to be 10k. After 15k we finally reached the parking lot, covered in mud, lucky to have the suspension working. Without any direction we set off, found what appeared to be a train marker, and started hiking. The trail disappeared into prickly bushes, which we persisted through, over a group of rocks, and down a hill. At this point, there was no trail. We discussed our plight, agreed to turn around, went back up the hill, over the rocks, and then through the prickly bushes.

After finding the correct trail we hiked along, had lunch after a while, and made it to the outlook. We turned around, jumped in the car, bumpy drove back to the campsite, and started playing poker.

Luckily we weren't playing for money, as Remko had the game under control most of the time. Soon enough we had dinner (more curry!) and fell asleep.

We woke up feeling rested, drove home, and I started editing the map of the area.