Breakdown Blues – Day 104 – Maitland

Day 104 Friday 16/9/2022 Nambucca Heads to Maitland, warm 24 It rained all night, but thankfully stopped at 6:00am and became warm and steamy. We trundle down the Pacific M1 freeway and arrive at the Maitland turnoff around noon. There … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 104 – Maitland

Breakdown Blues – Days 100 & 101 – Love you mate

Sept 2022, Nambucca Heads, NSW We take long walks and I find a rather nice helmet Cassidae shell on the beach. They’re fishing for bream on Shelly Beach. I have a walk along the V Wall, it always feels like half the townsfolk are out here having their morning exercise. Woody walks up to the highway and VeeWee and I pick him up on our way to lunch at the Macksville Hotel. We sit in the courtyard where there’s a mural dedicated to the late cricketing great Phillip Hughes who was a Macksville lad. My lamb fajitas are delicious. MV … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Days 100 & 101 – Love you mate

Breakdown Blues – Day 14 – Fancy meeting you here

Day 14 Saturday 18/6/2022 Narromine to Narrabri, 7 – 20 yes 20 There’s a nip in the air as we set off but, we’re obviously rusty at this caravan caper. We get a few kms down the road when we notice something flapping on the passenger side of the van. Oh bugger, it’s the cover on the power point. Off we go again and then Woody notices something flapping on the other side, did I close the kitchen window after we removed the park TV cable? Of course not. Morning sun highlights millions of spider webs on the heads of … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 14 – Fancy meeting you here

Breakdown Blues – Day 12, Feeling Flat in Narromine

Day 12, Thursday 16/6/2022, Narromine, 3 – 17 A pleasant day dawns, except that the local Ford dealer doesn’t want to complete the job on the Toyota Prado thankfully it is now drivable. We do some shopping before the boys take it over to Dubbo 40kms away. Dubbo is the regional centre. The news is worrying as the Toyota dealer will look at the simplest solutions first but at worst, the fuel tanks will need removal and it would be at least 3 weeks before they could do the job. If that’s the case, it would be easier and more … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 12, Feeling Flat in Narromine