Day 19 Thursday 23/6/2022, Millmerran to Braemar, sunny 2 – 23 We’re on the Darling Downs now, black soil, cotton, sorghum. The Jeep seems to struggle when the roads are undulating. Try explaining that to the mechanics! We pick up … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 19 Jack’s Place
Day 18 Wednesday 22/6/2022 Yelarbon to Millmerran, 3 – 21 A decent sized town, we stop at Inglewood to do a little shopping at the IGA, butcher and baker and baulking at the price of half a cabbage, $9, I … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 18 – The pregnant & the dead
Day 17 Tuesday 21/6/2022 Yelarbon, sunny 21 We have a lazy morning relishing in the relaxation of a day without the need to get up early. We feed the ducks and walk into town to buy some homemade cakes and jams from Granny’s shop. We meet and chat with a few more locals and are sent across the road to see the tribute to the Dingo Fence. Yelarbon was where the original fence ended. In fact, it ran from the Great Australian Bight in South Australia up to Cloncurry in Western Queensland and down to Yelarbon. It was 8320kms in … Continue reading Breakdown Blues, Day 17 – Relishing Yelarbon
Day 16 Monday 20/6/2022 Yelarbon, sunny 7 – 21 It’s a warm morning and Woody is up early to do the washing in the little garden shed. While the washing dries, we all sit around reading in the sun. It’s … Continue reading Breakdown Blues, Day 16 – Meeting a Mankiller
Day 15 Sunday 19/6/2022 Narrabri to Yelarbon, sunny 6 – 22 It’s a warmer morning. It’s hard to comprehend that 6 degrees here is fresh and a little nippy whereas in Melbourne it would be miserably cold, seep into your … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 15 – Queensland, just
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
Day 11 Wednesday 15/6/2022 Trundle to Narromine, an icy 0 – 17 We wake to a glorious morning. There’s a layer of frost and the weather app says it’s been zero degrees for hours. Gee, the bed is warm though. … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 11 – Not what we expected
Day 10, Tuesday 14/6/2022 Mirrool to Trundle, sunshine 4 – 13 It feels much warmer this morning. Elle and I have asked the boys if we can make the start time at 9:00am. We’re not getting any younger and the morning hijinks of the boys running around not wanting to hold each other up is getting irksome. We girls, don’t particularly fancy hitting the road half dressed with a toothbrush in hand and hair sticking up while the driver asks whether we turn left or right out of the park and if can we do a radio check, now. This … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 10 – Not so Swift afterall
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