It’s a beautiful day outside, our rental car is crammed full of telescope bits, and we’re read to https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚗" title="Auto" aria-label="Emoji: Auto"> ROAD TRIP https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌟" title="Leuchtender Stern" aria-label="Emoji: Leuchtender Stern">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔭" title="Teleskop" aria-label="Emoji: Teleskop">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> hour 1/5 complete, have left wine + orchard country and entered sheep + salmon country

(As the crow flies our island is only a few hours drive from corner to corner, but going west means winding around the mountains)

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> hour 2/5 complete, left sheep + salmon and passed through pine plantations + hydro power county amid the gum forests

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> hour 3/5 complete, getting into rain forest territory

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> hour 4/5 complete, passed through the region where native honey apiaries line the roads and now we’re into the valleys where copper is mined

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> hour 5/5 complete, arrived safely on the West Coast just as the sun is setting