Happy New Year to anyone reading this. May you travel safely, peacefully and enjoyably in 2024. I'm still working my way through posting some of the adventures Karen and I had in New South Wales and Queensland in 2023 as well as our travels in Germany, Italy and France on my other blog BornToTravel69 Now …
Category: Roadtrip
Victoria’s Silo Art Trail, part 2
Day 3 Lascelles to Avoca Awoke to a classic Autumn morning, cold with a clear blue sky. Once we had eaten breakfast we packed up the caravan and headed over to take one last look at the silo art in Lascelles. It was tricky to take a good photo because half the silo was basking …
Victoria’s Silo Art Trail
Day 1, Dromana - Stawell Even though we have driven along the North East Silo Art Trail in our home state of Victoria we had never been along the original Silo Art Trail in the Wimmera region. Finally we decided we would do it as a 'shake down' trip before we headed off to Queensland …
Queensland Roadtrip – Day 78
Euroa to Dromana It was another cold morning but nowhere near as cold as the morning before. We were soon on the road and heading down the Hume. At the Seymour sign we exited. We drove through the town and onto the road to Yea. This route allows us to go around the east side …
Queensland Roadtrip – Day 77
Brr, it was really cold. The caravan may be insulated and the heater was on but at 4:09 Karen and I were both trying to warm up. We put another doona on the bed and turned up the heater. That soon helped. My weather app told us it was zero and would head down another …
Queensland Roadtrip – Day 76
Having finished breakfast we packed up the caravan and headed off. Our plan was to take the freeways around the western side of Sydney and avoid the worst of the peak hour traffic and it worked well. We had cleared the city and were on our way down the Hume Highway by 10:45. Sydney - …
Queensland Roadtrip – Days 73-75
Lake Macquarie - Sydney Having not spent time with our youngest son, Jay, for five months, we were really looking forward to catching up with him in his new place. He'd spent the previous five and half years studying and working in Japan and he'd only been back in Australia for a few months when …
Queensland Roadtrip – Day 72
Jimmy's Beach to Mannering Park The next leg of our roadtrip was from Jimmy's Beach down to Lake Macquarie. Again the Myall River was very still and good reflections of the scenery could be observed as we drove over the bridge near Tea Gardens. Within fifteen minutes we had rejoined the Pacific Highway. Sadly drizzly …
Queensland Roadtrip – Days 70-71
Emerald Beach to Jimmy's Beach As it was only 350 kms to our next stopping point we had a leisurely breakfast before packing up at Emerald Beach. Heading out onto the highway we were soon heading south. The tell tale signs winter was past its worst were evident - lots of beautiful wattles were in …
Queensland Roadtrip – Days 68-69
Kingscliff to Emerald Beach We awoke again to another wet day. Breakfast was soon finished and we packed up quickly in between showers. As we headed off we had one more look at the Tweed River before making our way onto the M1 south. Even though the terrain was mostly flat with a few hills …