Day 60 Sunday 25/7/21 Mulambin, warm 23
We have a deliciously warm night with all the windows and hatches open but I wake to find that my Kindle is missing. It has slipped into that dark forbidden narrow gap between the bed and the wardrobe. A place where even the vacuum cleaner can’t reach. Rather than panic I have a shower and ponder a plan of search and rescue. I assume Woody is having brekkie outside in the sun. I pull the mattress aside, jam a torch into the space and reach in with a chopstick. Too short. A long cable tie. Too short, too floppy. A plastic spatula and a lot of elbow grease and grunt is enough to slide the Kindle out. After all that dust removal and exertion (I am 72 remember) I decide to have a rest on the bed, but the blind is open. I reach over to pull it up and knock one of the poorly designed plastic clips out of the window and into the garden below. I go outside and shimmy between the van and the vibrant tropical shrubbery and scone myself on the open window in the process before finding the plastic clip. I walk back inside, fix the window and fling myself on the bed. Woody cops the whole story when he asks why I’m still in bed. “And you did all that while I was in the loo?”
Double or Nuthin’ and Shirley Temple arrive a mere 8 weeks late setting a new record, they arrived in Longreach 6 weeks late back in 2014! The boys cook burgers in the camp kitchen in celebration, not of their lateness but of their arrival because after leaving home back in May when a lockdown was announced they returned home to sit it out for 4 weeks.
In frustration we read and re read the Vic Services web site which seems to imply that if we are to return home to Victoria we must cross the entire state of NSW in under 24 hours. That’s almost 1000kms. I doubt we could have done that when we were 20 let alone now with a caravan.
Accom: 42.00
Towing Kms: 0
itchingforhitching 
Just back from Qld this week after making that very 24 hour crossing through NSW with a green permit. Just as well we both drive whilst towing. Had our permit checked just over the Vic border by police but they didn’t even ask how long we’d taken! Took us a couple of days to recover. One of our near neighbours went round via Tennant Creek and SA. Not sure who was crazier, given we are both home to more lockdown. Cheers, Mark
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Whatever happened to ‘Rest Revive Survive’, I feel sorry for the coppers as they’ll have to clean up the mess if any poor caravanners come to grief.
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Oh, I don’t know. You seem to be able to do most things now you’re 72.
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😂 in slow motion!
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Sounds like you have an interesting little exercise regime. Spatulas are another one of those things campers might think they’ll never need until the day they realize they don’t have one.
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And on this trip we realised that we didn’t have a pastry brush on board. There’s always something.
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I can’t imagine we’ll ever need a pastry brush when we’re away camping! If I was the “cook” we’d probably have salads on hot days and soup on cold and no, it wouldn’t be “home made” soup!
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😂we were given a pumpkin on this trip and I was hamstrung when I realised that we’d left the little caravan stick mixer at home!!
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My trick is dropping the phone between the seat and centre console in the land cruiser and panicking about how to get it out.🤦♀️ I’ve done it at least three times!
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And too narrow for fingers to get into and then there are all the electricals that are under seats these days. Erg.
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Well done, but could you have tried Heineken?
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