{"id":27,"date":"2011-05-14T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-12-23T01:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T01:32:37","slug":"my-trip-down-south-day-fifteen-14th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/myadventures\/2011\/05\/my-trip-down-south-day-fifteen-14th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"My trip down south &#8211; Day Fifteen. (14th May)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a combination of travel and meeting friends. It was a very long day. I left Canberra around 7:30am and travelled along the Hume Hway to Moss Vale where I had arranged to meet my friend Kathy and her partner Michael. Moss Vale is a very pretty town. I loved the old buildings that abound in the town.<\/p><p>Kathy and Michael are very nice people and I spent a couple of hours with them having a chat over morning tea.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;border: none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2106.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2106-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\">Central Hotel, Moss Vale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;border: none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2108.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2108-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\">The railway bridge, Moss Vale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;border: none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2109.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2109-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\">Argyle House, Moss Vale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;border: none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2110.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xIMG_2110-300x169.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;border: none\">Lots of nice buildings in Moss Vale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><\/p>\n<div>After I left Moss Vale, I drove through the outer suburbs of Sydney and then north along the F3 freeway. I met Kurt at the roadhouse at Wyong North and spent half an hour chatting to him while we had sandwiches and a drink. Kurt is the last of my online friends that I will meet on this trip. I have enjoyed meeting all of the friends I have made online. They are all the same in real life as they appear online and they are a wonderful group of people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I continued to drive north and as I was passing the turnoff to Maitland, I decided to ring my aunt to see if she was home and whether I could pop in for a quick visit. So I spent half an hour with my aunt and uncle before driving on to Taree where I had booked a motel for the night. I arrived at the motel at around a quarter to seven so an eleven hour day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This will be my last night in a motel as I will be home tomorrow night. As much as I have loved this trip, it will be so great to be back home with my family tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a combination of travel and meeting friends. It was a very long day. I left Canberra around 7:30am and travelled along the Hume Hway to Moss Vale where I had arranged to meet my friend Kathy and her partner Michael. Moss Vale is a very pretty town. 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