Wet or Dry Cappuccino?

Our motel for tonight looks pretty unpromising from the outside!

it's actually quite charming - someone has clearly refurbished the rooms but not got around to tarting up the exterior paintwork yet.  It's all listed on AirBnB. 

Steve likes to have cappuccino when we have our daily (sometimes twice daily) stop at an espresso shack.  The first one we called at asked whether he wanted it wet or dry – to which we replied ‘err what?’.  Steve hedged and went for medium. Apparently a wet cappuccino has more steamed milk and less milk foam whereas a dry one is all foam on top of the espresso. Taken to the extreme, a very wet cappuccino is just a latte. Every day is a school day - I just stick to black americano, you can't go wrong with that!

A delightfully uneventful day today. The 4 lane road (no central reservation) outside our motel last night seemed busy day and night, but when we pulled up to the stop line the traffic parted like the Red Sea in the Bible and we were able to cross to the shoulder on the other side – lady luck was with us!  The first few miles were on the shoulder of a very busy highway. Then we approached a place where the shoulder ended – I was just thinking ‘<various expletives> this can’t be right’ when I noticed our track sliding off to the right. Since then, the route has been delightful. Some moderately busy sections but also mile after mile of virtually no traffic at all.  The scenery has been fairly plain – mostly forest but with the odd lake, including Nash Lake, which is quite large.

110km with 837m of ascent has brought us to the small town of Elma.  We went to Subway for lunch before coming to our accommodation and got chatting to a bloke who has Finnish ancestry (like my lovely wife, Anna).  After chatting to him for a while in the queue he left us with a Subway card with some credit on it for our next visit 🙂.

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