Our last night in the rental car turned out to be the coldest one by a long shot. We were freezing in our lightweight down sleeping bags, so much so that we had to huddle up closer to each other for warmth. We woke up to the sound of kookaburras laughing at us and checked the tiny key ring thermometer we have with us; it showed six degrees Celsius inside the car and just one outside of it. Our sleeping bags would have been able to handle that but the problem was ...

We took off from our campground in Norah Head ad about 9.30 and continued south along the Central Coast Highway, which later merged with the M1 motorway towards Sydney. That was problematic. We wanted to stay away from the city for two major reasons: first of all we had a bit of a drive ahead of us and didn't want to get stuck in traffic; second of all, we knew there would be toll roads there. We don't have those at home and we don't like them here. It made no ma...

Our halfway trip festivities (read our last entry) were a little saddened by the fact that our car decided to come alive once more. We only saw one cockroach this time but considering that we were sleeping in the back of the station wagon it was still one too many. Hence, after taking off from the shogrounds camping area in Kempsey we drove to the nearest Woolworth's and bought some more insecticide. Afterwards we spent some time in Kempsey's shopping center usin...

I mentioned in our last post that our campground in Coffs Harbour (right next to the showgrounds but a separate private ground anyway) was the nicest we'd been on so far. It was mostly true. However, after posting the statement they wronged us by kicking us out of their warm indoor common area at 10.45 p.m. and by limiting the use of the free wifi to just 50 Mb of downloads. It ran out way before we were done and it was cold out there. Other than that it really w...

We'd spent a night on Alstonville Showgrounds which happened to be just next door to the local library that had free wifi. Sadly it didn't open until 9.30 so we had to stick around even though it was raining. Sini bought a couple of books there for 50 cents each. After we finally got on the road we started south on the A1 which is a continuation of the M1 in Queensland. Only in QSL the motorway had been twelve lanes wide at points, while in New South Wales it was...