One aspect of living outside a town is that you have to drive to get anywhere else.   From being a one-car family with a lovely efficient Toyota Prius and several bicycles, we now have three cars, one of them a utility truck with a useful tray that we use on a daily basis.

The Prius was left behind in California because it’s difficult to drive across  the Pacific Ocean, even if there wasn’t the problem of driving on the opposite side of the road in Australia. Continue reading →