26th May 2009 We got up early this morning to check the road reports and the Pacific Highway was still closed. This meant having to drive 2 hours inland, 2 hours up the New England Highway and 2 hours back towards the coast! So what should have been a scenic 2 hour costal drive ended up taking 7hrs on very winedy roads, up a mountain, down a mountain, getting stuck behind the slowest caravan which wouldnt pull over and was impossible to overtake due to all the ...

24th May 2009 Our first night in Collin was Ok! The bed is actually quite comfy and its really good having the dvd player as we bought 30 dvds in Bali as there are no copyrights and they are really cheap! We woke up early and both needed the loo, not being near one meant we had to find one! So we pulled out little curtains back and drove back to Nobbys Beach to use them there. We made our bed back into benches and using baby wipes had a shower sort of!! We then...

We left our hostel in Sydney at 9am then got the underground to Mascot to pick up our Jucy Campervan! After doing th epaperwork and being shown how it all worked we headed off! We have named our camper COLLIN!! We had plan to leave Sydney and head North straight for the East Coast but due to a lack of any decent maps, it took at least an hour longer than it should of! But once we made it on the Pacific Highway we drove towards Newcastle, our first stopover. We ar...

19th May 2009 We were up and out of the hotel by 9 as we had a far drive still to go.We stopped at the information centre (which are in every town) to get some maps etc then started our 2nd day of driving to Sydney! Today the drive was fairly dull, the weather was abit grey and there were loads of roadworks on the way. So after another 6 hours we were heading for the city. Only 20ish minutes away my lame map reading skills meant we ended up even further away fr...

18th May 2009 We picked our hire car up at half 10 this morning, we got a free upgrade so instead of having another Tina the Tart, we got Bruce, a Mitsubishi Lanza, an automatic with cruise control which made the drive alot easier and more comfortable!! Once we found our way out of the city it was a pretty easy drive. One main stretch of road, hardly any cars and the weather was lush (typical with us being in a car for the whole day!). We only paid for Mike to b...