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
Sept 2022, Nambucca Heads, NSW There’s a wonderful spear fisherman statue in the garden by the V Wall that explains how the indigenous people of this area knew when the mullet were running. Hairy grubs, butterflies, and wattle blooming were … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Days 102 & 103 – Time to say goodbye again
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
Sept 2022, Nambucca Heads, NSW The whip birds are whipping. On the beach, the air smells of spring flowers. It’s so nice to be back here again. The morning is glorious, and the light is brighter here, sunglasses bright. We … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Days 98 & 99 – Soaking it up
Day 97 Friday 9/9/2022 Murwillumbah to Nambucca Heads, wet sunny 22 We’re up early and get away by 6:30am. The light rain becomes heavy when we join the Pacific Motorway and stays with us for hours. It clears by Yamba … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 97 – Is she sick again?
Day 96 Thursday 8/9/2022 Murwillumbah, sunny misty rain 8 – 22 We take a drive up the valley to Uki pronounced You Kye. We follow the Tweed for 15kms through lush farmlands below Mt Warning. There’s much evidence of the … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 96 – Uki
Day 95 Wednesday 7/9/2022 Toorbul to Murwillumbah, warm showery 22 One hundred and sixty four kilometres of speeding motorway and being sandwiched between trucks. We take it steady and hope like hell that the car makes it up the steep … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 95 – An Art Deco Surprise
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
Day 13 Friday 17/6/2022 Narromine, cloudy 6 – 13 It’s nice to wake to a mild morning. The boys run into DubboToyota and are told that the problem is ‘in loose terms’ that the car is not pumping fuel from … Continue reading Breakdown Blues, Day 13 – When Plan A goes to B to C and back to A
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
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