and I must tell you about our time away. the first day..

we rode for 7 hours to Beechworth. that is 7 hours on the bike [getting off about every hour or so, where I proceeded to eat my way through the journey]..
i slept on and off... meditated deeply at times. yes. that is possible while sitting on the back of a Harley.

At Beechworth, we checked into our accommodation

the Old Priory.
the Old Priory was a gorgeous old building.. a little run down. but full of mystery and an aura of old. of people's past.
after dinner, we went for a walk - around the grounds where I discovered an old Grotto..

I spent some time there. With Mary.

then dinner at Tatswells hotel.
I had Lamb Curry.

then we went for another walk.. meeting up with a local tour guide who was doing a Ghost tour that night.. 2 hours walking around the Old buildings..listening to tales of life in the goldfields. a hard life. a sometimes violent life. all because of money & gold

next morning - an early walk, breakfast and then while Joe packed the bike.. I wandered into the old orchard, surrounded by the ghosts of the past

and did my centering prayer...
then off to Bendigo. a 3 hour ride..

[today my eldest grandson turns 12. I know, I know. I am not old enough to have a 12 year old grandson!!]