Category: On the Road

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Like a Rollingstone, Day 66 – Celebratory caravan cooking

Itching for Hitching

Day 66 Thursday, 14/7/2016, Cape Hillsborough, cloudy wet 17 It’s Woody’s 70th birthday and we drive into Mackay for lunch. We find a friendly Thai restaurant overlooking the marina and feel rather special as there’s no one else there. Back at camp we spend the afternoon preparing a Chinese dinner. I bake a cake in our wondrous new oven then can’t figure out where to put it…..the coffee machine is on the bathroom floor along with the fruit bowl, but that seems to live on the bathroom floor most of the time, and a pumpkin that has been waiting for … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 66 – Celebratory caravan cooking

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Like a Rollingstone, Day 55 & 56 – Bloody Midges

Itching for Hitching

Day 55 Sunday, 3/7/2016, Rollingstone Weather, changing My God are we still here? El and Elle Prado leave to head north. We’ve finally got the jump on the midges. The bites have healed and there’s no more itching. Wow that’s only taken two weeks. Day 56 Monday, 4/7/2016, Rollingstone, Warm Rain 24 It started raining about 4:00am but we had anticipated it and had everything battened down. No more wet T shirt stuff for us. Obviously, this beach combing life is frying our brains because we drove into Townsville for supplies and got to the outer suburbs before we realised … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 55 & 56 – Bloody Midges