Blogonaut on Tour Day 1

After having to attend a work training day on confict resolution(which one might think wise before spending 15 hours trapped in a car with one other person) we managed to leave Alice at 4.30 in the afternoon. We had decided a short trip down to Kulgera, some 300 km away might shave a bit of time off the trip and enable us to get moving early the next day.

Having learnt our lesson on prior trips we booked ahead. I was quoted $85 per night for a hotel room. Right now dear reader you might be envisaging some quaint old stone hotel with quaint little hotel rooms. I ,,however had passed through Kulgera before and could not remember there being a hotel in the usual usage of the nou, rather a campgroound and a series of demountables. At least the would be a warm bed and I wouldn’t have to put up the tent for a night.

The trip to Kulgera was uneventful, I had hoped for the sighting of a UFO seeing that we were for the most part a lonely vehicle driving along a lonely highway. Sadly , no the only thing that came close was distant car lights causing an eerie glow as the crested hills coming toward us.

We arrived in Kulgera, and it was as I remembered it a roadhouse and fuel depo with a camping ground attached. We were greeted at the counter by a large, bald and tatoo laden man – my guess was that he was ex-navy(mind you he could have been ex-hells angels or both) owing to the fine temperament he displayed.

This fine example of customer service territory style informed me that the price was $110 per night. Now the lat thing you want to do after a long drive is argue with a man that loks like chopper’s ugly cousin, that is unless you are married to a professional arguer(my wife is a lawyer).

Needless to say we did get the room for the originally quoted $85 which was more than it was worth. At least it was clean and though it lacked any cooking utensils, dishcloth, plates, it did have a gideons bible. The bible was lacking a parental advisory so in “Thinking of the Children” I dutifully applied one.

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