Chapter 15
Back on the road, from Townsville.
Monday 29th July 2002, (Rollingstone).
5:30pm and we are sitting outside the van and enjoying, listening to, the gentleman next door playing the piano accordion. We are once again at Rollingstone camp area soaking up the tranquillity of camping in a bush setting.
We left Townsville this morning and are on […]
Saturday 27th July.
I have managed to achieve all chores I had intended doing in Linda’s absence, and I even came up with another mod for the solar panels so I can place them on an angle while on the roof so they can catch more sun while up there. Some paint was purchased for the […]
Sunday 21st July.
Things are always there to test one. A message from Linda, in Tassie, informed me that her sister Maxine’s daughter is leaving Tassie in eight weeks for Queensland. The problem is as follows; our household goods from home are in storage in the garage at the residence she is presently at, which is […]
Thursday 18th July.
11:00pm and I am already feeling what it is like living on my own once more. I have been busy during the day so the effect wasn’t really felt, but now at night on my own with the whole van to myself, gets a bit lonely but we’ll be able to handle it […]
Wednesday 17th July, (On my own).
Linda is on her way home, and at this moment is in Brisbane spending the night with Deris before catching another flight tomorrow on her way to Tassie.
Seeing that Linda has gone I took it that it was now ok to start on the solar panel job, so number one […]
Tuesday 16th July.
Nerves have hit Linda as she is due to fly home tomorrow and the usual things are occurring, such as not being able to sleep. She won her count down to two more sleeps, but it should have immediately reverted to no more sleeps and the next two days are going to become […]
Saturday 13th July.
It has been a rather industrious week as Linda has been busy spring-cleaning the caravan and I have been doing some maintenance work to make our lives a little easier.
I have finished modifying the roof racks and have now bolted down the wheels, much better. Repacking the panel van is just about complete, […]
Tuesday 9th July.
Bloody travel agents: a call today revealed how the travel agent changed the Brisbane to Tassie leg and when she rang Qantas they refused to change the Townsville to Brisbane leg. After convincing her that it was not satisfactory to have the two legs separated by a week, she seemed to think this […]
Monday 8th July, (Townsville).
Been rather busy lately organising the rearrangement of gear from the caravan to the panel van. One day was taken up re-packing the panel van, removing the spare wheel to make more room, and finding space to store things like the blue box from the front of the caravan that once held […]
Wednesday 3rd July, (Townsville).
After a further clean out and reshuffle of gear from the caravan to car, with what is still to move, I reckon that my new estimate is we have off loaded in excess of 200ks from the caravan. We may be still over weight by a little but I will at least […]