A chance to catch up on where we are and what we have been doing.
Leaving Bingara we stopped for an early lunch at Leyburn where they hold the round the town speed trials each year. It’s on again soon and well worth going to, but not for us this time.
That night we stayed a night at Texas at the free camp near the river, we walked into town via the track thinking it would be quicker but turned out being double the distance. Came back via the highway but we stuffed up and ended up having to climb through barbed wire fences. Hilarious really as we’re not very flexible. 😃
Our next night was at Blackbutt Showgrounds, we have been here before and frequented the Bakery, this time it was no different except upon arrival we were greeted with the voice of a Bushtracker mate .. Muzza & Judy. They were staying the night so it was a great coincidence we were also, it’s lovely bumping into people we know with nothing planned. As it turned out we stayed an extra night, and visited the bakery again 😁
Judy & Muzza
Scoffing down some pie’s
Muzza’s Rig
Our next destination was Woodford Showgrounds, here it is $25 per night with power & water. We stayed 4 nights and Vickie caught up with the clothes washing, one day we took a drive up to Mt Mee & the Pitstop Cafe for coffee & cake which is a great place full of motorcycle memorabilia. We continued on up to Mt Glorious for lunch, plenty of motorcycles about and the roads are very twisty as they wind their way up the hills.
Love the old classic cars
The route we drove
Saturday morning we checked out the local markets and that evening we went to the Woodford Hotel for dinner.
After our 4 nights we left Woodford and headed to Nanango where good mates Rob & Marg live now after moving up from Victoria. They have a beautiful 5 acre property that is parkland cleared with many beautiful tree’s scattered about. Lots of bird life and I saw 3 kangaroos early one morning. We all caught up with our life stories, Rob & I gave the rig a wash as it needed it badly. We stayed two nights and went to the local Service Club for a great meal and couple of ‘coldies’
At Rob and Margs place, peace and quiet, birds and kangaroos.
Rob has been very busy with their place since buying it and is 1/2 way through building a massive shed, it is very impressive and I had shed envy. Each night we had a camp fire and reminisced about the many things we got up to all those years ago.
Leaving our friends, we were heading to Kenilworth but .. yes .. I made the mistake of allowing the Map App show us the way, well what was supposed to be a two hour drive turned out to five and a bit hours !! We were directed down a narrow sealed road for a few kilometres which then turned into dust and gravel, the roads were more like tracks and were taking us higher in elevation and into thicker forest. We went down one track, travelled 10k or so only for it to be a dead end, not a lot of fun when towing a caravan. But what was good was finding a chainsaw in the middle of the road, although it must of fallen of a vehicle or trailer it was undamaged and starts and runs great.
We eventually got to Kenilworth but it was a long day driving and the clean rig is now dirty again 😀 Pleased to say the van itself has been trouble free, except for a electrical plug coming off the Victron Cerbo device, the plug is for the water tank levels and it was an easy fix once I found out the problem.
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