Things I've learned

I'm finding road trips a constant source of learning.

Things I've learned in this past week are:

1. Wineries are good. Tasting expensive wine is good. Realising you're not allowed to drink and drive is bad. Lesson learned. Luckily the South Australian police weren't on the ball. Today I am paying my sister $5 to drive me around the wineries near my parents place, so I can drink during the day again.

2. Going back to a childhood 'home' after many years away is a bitter sweet experience. Apollo Bay is still beautiful, still cold, still raining. But it's been 'poshed up'. The inground trampolines are gone. Skid Row is full of Jaycos. I understand this last point will not make sense to most people, but imagine your childhood campground ruined by the latte drinking set. It's slightly disconcerting. My lesson learned here was perhaps to leave the past in the past. Childhood memories should be coated in sugar, and left there.

3. Lesson 3: Don't mix gin and jager and pimms and vodka and wine. It only leads to 4am 'shopping trips' , where slightly confused drunk people end up sleepwalking and climbing boxes inside a storage room.

4. Realise that I am still unemployed and have no prospects of a job for many months to come. I can't afford to buy things. Lesson - instead of shopping on Brunswick St all afternoon, plonk yourself at a bar, drink cheap beer, wait until the shops close, then pine over the funkiest kick arse shoes I should have bought for $35.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Tuesday morning ... I'm off to the Yarra Valley to check out more wineries.