Gray Nomad,  gray with an a for active seniors lifestyle.
 
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Kelly, waiting patiently for the grandchildren to come home from school, like every generation of family dog, before her.
Reg and I are enjoying a couple of evenings and a full day at my youngest daughters home in south east suburbs of Melbourne before heading off down the South Gippsland Highway and enjoying the view of even more rolling hills J. I love that drive.

We will follow the South Gippsland Highway along until we reach the Grand Ridge Road. Taking the caravan down to Yarram, then up to Tarra Valley, leaving it there, so I can tour the steeper, curvy sections of the Grand Ridge Road, without the caravan in tow, so that I the driver can enjoy the scenery in a more relaxed way. Not that I even know I am towing the Eco-tourer caravan unless I look in my mirrors, it travels so well behind our ‘troopy’.  J.

 I love the magnificent Strzelecki Ranges in this area. They bring back memories, personal ones, that extend back another generation, stories my mother told me and things I recall of my parents from when I was young, and I will now be revisiting the same area, I visited as a child.  The things I will love the most, will not have changed at all.

There is an interesting historical park you can visit in the area, called Coral Creek Historical Park.

The magnificent, Tarra Valley and Bulga, National Parks. The dense tree fern and tall mountain trees, forest within the park offers some great walking tracks and picnic areas. You can visit the magnificent Cynthia Falls from the Tarra Valley Picnic Ground and follow the beautiful Fern Tree Gully Nature Walk from the Bulga Picnic area.

Continuing along the highway you can head south from Meeniyan or Foster to the incredible Wilsons Promontory National Park.

East again along the South Gippsland Highway you will pass the pretty Agnes Falls, Reg and I will go there again J, it is dog friendly.  

Both my grandchildren here, attend high school now and the photo is of Kelly, their golden retriever looking desolate through the window  as they head off with mum in the car, the high school being too far away for her to accompany them on the walk as she used to do when they went to primary school.

Not much has changed, since I my children went to school, at least the dreaded tie I had to wear has changed to more practical and informal wear but the clarks shoes.and check gingham summer dress uniform for the girls does not seem to have changed in three generations.

One of my friends told me she orders her children’s school  lunches on line and pays via a bank money transfer, now that is sure different. The internet age isn’t just for the children and grandchildren though, I think most of today’s gray nomad generation are computer  literate and like me love to share the family pictures, the images of the children and grandchildren they visit as they travel the country, and yes J, even the family dog J, here, on line, with friends.

It is fifty-eight years ago I trudged off to school for the first time in uniform, the main change I see, is that brought about by the personal computer.

 What do you think has been the greatest change, in three generations?

 
 


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