Day 6 Friday 10/6/2022 Lockhart to Leeton, 8 – 11 cold “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they are going.” Paul Theroux. That sounds familiar. After chatting online over breakfast to blogger Derrick from DerrickJKnight, I … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 6 – Backpacking for old farts
Day 5 Thursday 9/6/2022, Lockhart, chilly 6 – 12 degrees Either it’s warmer or we’re getting acclimatised to winter, but it feels much warmer. There are scudding grey clouds and bursts of sunshine and, there is a chilly breeze. We … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 5 – With arms of steel
Day 4 Wednesday 8/6/2022 Oaklands to Lockhart, 3 – 11 (not much better) We’re woken by the camper next door trying to start his Ute. It’s icy. Deciding to do some touring and in need of some fuel, we drive … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 4 – Losing our hearts to Lockhart
Day 3 Tuesday 7/6/2022, Berrigan to Oaklands, hosing down 6 – 10 degrees This is such a peaceful park. There were trucks passing through during the night but they were not noisy. We wake to a cold misty morning, then … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 3 – A great place to live
Day 2 Monday 6/6/2022, Tocumwal to Berrigan, 13 degrees sunny with an icy breeze Gosh the van was buffeted last night. But, it was warm as toast and I slept for 11 hours. Of course, Woody was up early and … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 2 – If it’s rockin’ don’t bother knockin’
Day 1, Sunday 5/6/2022, Melbourne to Tocumwal, raining 9 degrees This is our third attempt to get away and quite possibly the longest stint we’ve had at home. The warning light that flashed on the Jeep’s dashboard as we pulled … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 1 – Tocumwal
Blog chatting the other morning to Derrick over at Derrickjknight.com he commented on our travelling lifestyle. My reply of it being like ‘Backpacking for old farts’ sent my mind reeling. Our diesel heater had decided to stop working after belching out pungent fumes. It was about 6 degrees outside and although we had the electric heater on I was shivering, we were in a town that few have heard of and we only roughly knew where we were headed for the day. My reeling mind spun back to a much younger self humping a heavy canvas backpack down a deserted … Continue reading Just backpacking
Day 8, Tuesday April 1st 2014 Euroa – Melbourne We had a warm night and it was the first time this trip that we were able to leave the windows open. After a lazy breakfast outside in the sun, we bid our farewells and head for home. Summary 1080kms, 8 days 7 nights, Fuel $148.24, Accom $115.00 ($16.43 per night) But why were the toilet signs in Bosnian? 2022 Note: In less politically correct times many towns had nicknames (to our family anyway). Those along the Hume Highway, See more at Seymour, Euroa da boat and I’ll catcha da fish, … Continue reading Euroa da boat
Day 7, Monday March 31st 2014 Nug Nug to Euroa We wake to a brilliant green park, blue skies and wisps of cloud clinging to the hillsides. There is much activity as vans are packed to go. Some are off … Continue reading Seven Creeks Hotel
Day 6, Sunday March 30th 2014 Nug Nug, Vic Once again we wake to rain! It plops and plops all morning so that everything that had finally dried is now wet again. We wander about chatting under dripping awnings or … Continue reading Doubtful prospects
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