On leaving Alice Springs we stopped the night at Conners Well, 80km north of Alice.The next morning we started our day in shorts and singlets as the weather has certainly warmed up. The communication has improved up this way since last year. We kept seeing these phone signal signs but as we would drive past our phones showed no reception, so we decided to stop and check one out. You have to place your mobile phone on a stand, make your call and put phone on speak...

Monday morning we left Taggerty, across to Seymour, Echuca and stopping our first night on the road at Knights Bend at Robinvale. The hazard lights went on twice through our first day. The first time was due to the worst wind and rain that we had come across; it was too dangerous to continue driving, so pulled over for about 10 minutes. Heading to Echuca a truck came towards us and blew both vents, above the windscreen off, so once again the hazard lights went on...

We had three days at Taggerty with a great group of motorhomers. The weather was great on both Friday and Saturday but it rained all day on the Sunday. Saturday was the usual Men’s cook-off. So many great meals were cooked on the open fire, choofers and gas cookers. The first meal was out by 3pm and we finished about 6pm. With very full bellies, the judging commenced and the wooden spoon (the winner) this year went to Ian (Cuppa) with his fantastic bananas ...

We have had a busy time catching up with family and friends during the last couple of weeks. Sad times, as we put our beautiful dog, Jack, to rest…..Our plan was to get away on Thursday and catch up with Mez and Tim but had to leave home 24 hours late due to a last minute printing job. Heading towards Taggerty for the weekend.

We woke at Julie and Ian's place to a cold and rainy morning. We said our goodbyes and we instantly hit Ballarat's peak hour traffic, which we hadn't experienced for the last five months. It was only small compared to what we were about to experience in Melbourne. As we travelled closer to Melbourne the traffic began to get more dense, feeling a bit flustered we made our way to West Heildeberg to catch up with Tony and grab a couple of bags of wood of...