Saturday 31st October 2009, Warren.
We have now moved to a small town of Warren (see map) north west of Dubbo, a small detour off the Newell highway to the west at Gilgandra. The reason for coming here was just for the sake of going somewhere different, and not wanting to stop at Dubbo, we have […]
Tuesday 27th October 2009, Narrabri.
Oh the fickle weather of inland NSW: When we arrived on Friday the temperatures reached the high 30’s and has been there since, well until yesterday when we had a thunder storm, rain, temps in the high 10’s and the heater on in the caravan. It is forecast for showers nearly […]
Saturday 24th October 2009, Narrabri.
We are now back into somewhat of civilisation at Narrabri, (see map) and it has become apparent how we have become spoiled over the past few years. It must have been a different time of the year that we were out that way, April-May, or it is just unbelievably hot for […]
Monday 19th October 2009, Lightning Ridge.
We had a look around the area today on what was a novel way of having local tourist drives. There are four drive yourself tours around the town and surrounding areas called self drive Door tours, each having a different colour. Each scenic point on the tours is sign posted […]
Saturday 17th October 2009, Lightning Ridge.
A bit on Lightning Ridge: We were told that it was a lot like Coober Pedy, but we don’t have that impression at all, it is a bit more like Andamooka, a small town near Roby Downs south of Coober Pedy. In Coober Pedy a lot of the houses are […]
Friday 16th October 2009, Lightning Ridge.
We made our second attempt to get to Lightning Ridge today with a lot more success (See map). It was a trip with a difference: With the problems of the first attempt it couldn’t be helped that it was in our mind that something else could go wrong, I was […]
Wednesday 14th October 2009, St George.
All repairs to the caravan have now been done with the following being replaced: Complete brake unit both sides, new drum on the offending side, new wheel bearings both sides, new wheel nuts and two new tyres. This was a rather expensive breakdown repair, but at least now we know […]
Monday 12th October 2009, St George.
It seems that I have an apology of sorts to make to RACQ after a comment I made yesterday. It seems that they do in fact cover caravan towing in that situation, so I have no idea why the rep I was talking to told me otherwise, maybe it has […]
Sunday 11th October 2009, St George.
I have had a good night’s sleep now and can possibly reflect on what happened yesterday in a fresh frame of mind. One thing that was proved yesterday was that truck drivers, again even though they hate caravans, are human and can be very helpful even to us caravanners. This […]
Saturday 10th October 2009, St George.
Yes I know I said we were going to Lightning ridge today, but we got about 40K down the road and had to call a tow truck to take the van back to where we left from. While getting along very nicely, tail wind and all, I glanced down at […]