Amy's diary entry 1
Hi everyone! We put up a quick entry a few hours ago but I’m now going to add details!
I will be running the Walk With a Rose blog like a diary from now on. It will be my personal story of the whole project, updated every three days max. I really want to keep you all up to date on the highs and lows of the walk as there have been so so so many people help the walk get to where it is now and I want to keep you all as involved as I can!
Let’s go back a few days…to Thursday, the final, long – awaited send off from the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. I woke up early (not that I slept much) with that little-kid feeling in my stomach like it was Christmas day. This was to be such a memorable day – and everything had to be just right.
Of course anyone who knows me well would completely understand why we got stuck in a lift on level one going from ground to level two when we were two mins away from doing a live cross with the Today Show – I just have really good luck. So it was 9:05 and I was supposed to start walking at 9am and we were standing around not knowing whether to laugh or cry or have a tantrum when a doctor stuck in the lift with us spoke up and mentioned his name – Doctor Stuckey. What are the chances.
Great start to the day! We finally got walking on what was to be a 40ish day walk. Brisbane to Ipswich – pretty straight forward, right? Wrong. I am one of those talented people with a special sense of direction – it is possible that we walked around in large circles at one stage – anyway we made it in the end. Only took an extra few hours walking, no big deal.
We were graciously taken in by a family who were members of the Rotary club in Ipswich and had steak and veggies waiting for us at their home. It was the best steak and veggies I’d ever eaten.
That night I slept with the biggest grin on my face ever! We had survived our first day with only a few minor dramas and figured – if being stuck in the lift with Doctor Stuckey and missing the Today Show then taking the extra long way from Brisbane to Ipswich was the worst thing we were to encounter on the two month mission we were doing ok!
Ipswich to Amberley on Friday nearly gave me a heart failure when I missed stepping on the head of a python when attempting to navigate my way under a bridge. I think poor Pete had ringing in his ears for a while after that due to my squeal – as my dad would say, ‘we nearly had to go to the dry-cleaners’.
My near-death python experience called for a cold one so we de-briefed at the pub and chewed the fat.
I went on the Warwick Community Radio this morning with Russell. My interview straight after news that a lady had tried to marry a snake but the snake failed to show up to the wedding - ? After about the sixth time he called me Amy Brown I gave up trying to correct him. All went well though, and we love it here. Woke up so cold that you could see your breath and not may people out for a morning walk at 5:30am but it is a beautiful, clean place and the days are still quite warm.
We had to drive 96 kms from Amberley to Warwick because we were not legally able to walk that section. That’s why we will be spending three days here – making up the driven distance by walking the outskirts of Warwick – 32k’s a day for 3 days. We have once again been looked after by some lovely people here in Warwick with. Tomorrow is our third day here then we head to Dalveen. There’s only one road to Dalveen so with any luck I won’t get lost.
I will be running the Walk With a Rose blog like a diary from now on. It will be my personal story of the whole project, updated every three days max. I really want to keep you all up to date on the highs and lows of the walk as there have been so so so many people help the walk get to where it is now and I want to keep you all as involved as I can!
Let’s go back a few days…to Thursday, the final, long – awaited send off from the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. I woke up early (not that I slept much) with that little-kid feeling in my stomach like it was Christmas day. This was to be such a memorable day – and everything had to be just right.
Of course anyone who knows me well would completely understand why we got stuck in a lift on level one going from ground to level two when we were two mins away from doing a live cross with the Today Show – I just have really good luck. So it was 9:05 and I was supposed to start walking at 9am and we were standing around not knowing whether to laugh or cry or have a tantrum when a doctor stuck in the lift with us spoke up and mentioned his name – Doctor Stuckey. What are the chances.
Great start to the day! We finally got walking on what was to be a 40ish day walk. Brisbane to Ipswich – pretty straight forward, right? Wrong. I am one of those talented people with a special sense of direction – it is possible that we walked around in large circles at one stage – anyway we made it in the end. Only took an extra few hours walking, no big deal.
We were graciously taken in by a family who were members of the Rotary club in Ipswich and had steak and veggies waiting for us at their home. It was the best steak and veggies I’d ever eaten.
That night I slept with the biggest grin on my face ever! We had survived our first day with only a few minor dramas and figured – if being stuck in the lift with Doctor Stuckey and missing the Today Show then taking the extra long way from Brisbane to Ipswich was the worst thing we were to encounter on the two month mission we were doing ok!
Ipswich to Amberley on Friday nearly gave me a heart failure when I missed stepping on the head of a python when attempting to navigate my way under a bridge. I think poor Pete had ringing in his ears for a while after that due to my squeal – as my dad would say, ‘we nearly had to go to the dry-cleaners’.
My near-death python experience called for a cold one so we de-briefed at the pub and chewed the fat.
I went on the Warwick Community Radio this morning with Russell. My interview straight after news that a lady had tried to marry a snake but the snake failed to show up to the wedding - ? After about the sixth time he called me Amy Brown I gave up trying to correct him. All went well though, and we love it here. Woke up so cold that you could see your breath and not may people out for a morning walk at 5:30am but it is a beautiful, clean place and the days are still quite warm.
We had to drive 96 kms from Amberley to Warwick because we were not legally able to walk that section. That’s why we will be spending three days here – making up the driven distance by walking the outskirts of Warwick – 32k’s a day for 3 days. We have once again been looked after by some lovely people here in Warwick with. Tomorrow is our third day here then we head to Dalveen. There’s only one road to Dalveen so with any luck I won’t get lost.
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