Albany

Report May 7
By Trudy

Good morning!!

goodmorning

What happiness, it’s nice weather, the wind is gone.

nice weather

During the coffee stop Dirk replaces the fuse of the head lights and lubricates the drive shaft. The land is covered with a layer of sand. If you see it from afar, it looks like a bulb field with a bit of imagination.

sandy

By email we know that Jim and Kaaren who we met in Tauranga in New Zealand are in Albany and they wait for us along the way and have invited us for lunch.

meeting Jim and Kaaren

friends

At the road-house we have an appointment with members of the Veteran Car Club or WA Albany. There is a road-train parked and with the Model T-Ford next to it is easy to see how big it is compared to our Model T-Ford.

road-train

arrived

There will be a reporter from the local newspaper and a reporter from the ABC (radio and television).

interview

The reporter takes us to a beautiful spot on the mountain and makes his recordings there.

ABC filmset

Meanwhile, the police have also arrived. They had seen us drive and found it very special what we do and approved the T-Ford.

police