We are now back on the road after our rest and recouperation both in Brisbane for Tony with his mate Don and me in Perth with the girls and the grandies. We both had a wonderful time catching up with family and friends but the intrepid travellers must move on. Our first stop, after looping around through Woodford and Ipswich, was at Frenches Creek with Tony's niece Sue and nephews Lou and Harry and Harry's wife Treena on Treena's farm. We had 3 glorious days s...

As the time was drawing close to when Bert and Fran were to depart for their trip back to Manjimup, we made our way down closer to Brisbane and camped at the showground at Ipswich. We had 5 days here so that we could go into Brisbane, tour around Ipswich and surrounding area and visit the Amberley Air Base. Fran and Bert also needed to finalise preparations for their trip home. We caught the train and the bus from the showgrounds to Brisbane and had a full day...

For those of you who have not visited Toowoomba you must put it on your bucket list. We arrived in Toowoomba at the very best time of the year. Toowoomba is known as the city of flowers and it was all a bloom when we got there. We visited Queens Gardens where the Festival of Flowers is held every year. In preparation for this festival the park had all its garden beds in flower with pansies, ranunculis, tulips, snapdragons, violas and many more, all stragetical...

We are now starting to experience the increase of population that the Sunshine Coast and it's close proximity to Brisbane brings to bear as you drive the vans down the Bruce Highway. We found a fantastic farmstay in Cooroy that enabled us to do day trips to Noosa and Eumundi. Our first stop, to Fran's and my delight, was a market with over 500 stalls in it. What fun we had checking out all the stalls..... even the boys got into the swing of things even though ...

This travelling bit doesn't allow much time to write the blog and before you know it you're miles ahead and the blog is miles behind. Our stay in Joe's Country (being Jo Beijelke Peterson) was delightful. We had our first camping in this area in a little place called Murgon. Murgon have gone out of their way to welcome travellers by setting up free camping at their old caravan park. Well, when I told Bert we would be staying in a caravan park for free he sai...