Moving Up

Our little Corolla hatch did well to carry everything we had left over to take by road. That included lots of clothing, our digital musical instruments and, of course, Henry and Bill (the budgie). The first days travel went pretty much without incident.





Towards the end of Day one's travel, we pulled off the Hume and headed to Tumut (near Canberra) where there was a pet-friendly bed and breakfast to stay at. Almost there, we saw a Henry Street. Pulling over to take Bill (or was it a picture of the sign with Henry?) there was a huge dog on the property over the road who seemed to be interested in jumping the fence to meet Henry. The vocal owner of the property managed to convince the dog to remain inside the fencing, fortunately, but Henry, still affected by calming medication, was in hysterics. He just wanted a piece of the dog. We'd never seen him like this before.
We rushed over the the sign and Rach took the pic. You can see me gritting my teeth, saying "COME ON!!!" and Henry trying to squirm out of my arms saying "BRING IT ON!"

The place we stayed at was Russel-lee B & B. It had a huge enclosed yard where HJ could run around. He loved their sprinkler. He would run up to it and snap his mouth at the water coming out and get soaked.
Inside, the place was decked out in soft toy animals - including an half size lion, which Henry wanted to drag off as his new toy of choice for us to throw for him.

Henry actually slept in our bedroon for the first time. Only on one other occasion had we tried to let him sleep 'out' but in the early hours of the morning he decided to jump up on our bed, to our surprise! HJ did really well however, didn't jump up once.

Leaving in the morning we had to slowly pass through cattle grazing on the road (we hadn't made it back to the Hume yet) and of course, for thoes who know HJ, that brought much barking.

We didn't medicate HJ the second day. The medication seemed to make him quite irrational and didn't send him to sleep that much, and we found he slept ok the next day without drugs. YAY!

Billy, however, seemed to travel the best of all of us. His toys would move around and so he had 'friends' to interactively play with all the way up.








We stopped off at the Dog on the tucker box at Gundagai. Got HJ to sit and stay on the edge of the pond around the monument. There was a local news camera man there who thought HJ was so cute that he got filmed sitting at the statue and then running off (to me when I called him). We forgot to watch the news that evening, but ever since HJ has insisted on getting the 'star' treatment now that he has appeared on TV and all.





Our second pet-friendly place we stayed at was Sydney's Hughenden Boutique Hotel (only pet friendly place where we could stay just one night) . HJ had his own atrium (pictured) to sleep in, being a tv star and all, that's all he would accept!