Finally the much awaited day is here and although todays leg is a very short one I feel I must include it as it is the 1st leg of our incredible, amazing journey.I must admit it was with a sense of guilt that I said goodbye to Rodd at Longreach airport, here he is wishing me a fabulous holiday whilst he has to stay behind to run the motel alone for the next 4 weeks.Excitement and nervous anticipation soon overcame those guilty twinges however as I boarded the pla...

Our flight to Brisbane is at 10 am so I wanted to be at the airport by 9am. I had organised and paid for the hotel shuttle to take us over to the terminal so we only had to go downstairs and hop in the bus. All pretty easy but there was a fair line at check in.. I do tend to panic when traveling, no matter where I'm going I like to be there hours before is necessary and today we were cutting it a little fine in my book! We got all checked in and through secur...

No big rush to get going today, we've only got to be back in Sydney to drop the car off by 5pm and it's just under a 3 hour drive. Once we were ready to go with the car all packed up we drove up to Ross and Wendys caravan and to our surprise she had breakfast all ready to cook for us. So an hour later all filled up with yummy eggs and tomato on toast, bacon added for Rodd, we said our goodbyes promising to keep in touch. We had a fairly leisurely drive wi...

We only had an hour and a half drive today from Mudgee to Bathurst. With a late start and a nice long stop in Sofala we stretched the trip out to nearly 4 hours so arrived in Bathurst around 2ish.Easy check in at the cabins where we discovered Rodds Aunty and Uncle had paid for our nights accommodation. We were both a little tired after our non stop holiday so decided to have a bit of a nap before we went and said hello to Wendy and Ross. We awoke an hour or so l...

New Years Day we were up and leaving Frank and Debbies place by about 9am. Debbie had given us good directions to get out of Canberra and on our way to Mudgee... we only took one wrong exit due to confusing roadworks but with the help of trusty Google Maps on the smartphone we were soon back on the right road. I drove the first leg, to Cowra which is roughly half way, and so became our lunch stop. I had been watching the petrol gauge and working out how far we...