Woke up yesterday to a hot shower and a great breakfast with the eggs given to us by the caravan park. Soon we were back on the Newell Highway and heading north again. We made our way through Jerilderie, Narrandera and past Grong Grong, then a small stopover in West Wyalong for some provisions, where we were nearly rundown by an old lady who couldn't keep to her side of the road. It was a long day, so we decided to pull over in Forbes for the night. The weather...

Finally, we are away. After two years of covid lockdowns, and four months of the longest and coldest winter I can remember, and two months of limbo waiting for George's redundancy package to come through, finally everything has fallen into place and we are away. The plan is to head north as quickly as possible to follow the sun, as we had been wintered out. However our first stop was not far - just outside Ballarat where a friend of George's has a church which h...

Now we are back home I have had time to reflect on our trip and I have a few words of wisdom. Firstly - while travelling, weather is all important. Being in the most amazing places isn't really enjoyable if it is very cold, windy and rainy, or even worse when stiflingly hot and humid. Ideally we should have left on our trip two to three weeks earlier to avoid the overwhelming heat up north. But, when married to a teacher, you are bound by the limits of school ho...

We left Ardrossan and continued on to Adelaide - a fairly short drive, but dealing with the crowded streets and traffic lights was not much fun. It was good to catch up with Stephanie and share notes. She had been to New Zealand so had some good travel stories as well, not to mention lots of photos. We spent a very pleasant day together, and took her out for dinner in the evening on a warm balmy Adelaide night. Our initial plan was to go straight to Melbourne t...

The next day we made our way back up the eastern side of the Yorke Peninsula. Here there was a road that hugged the coast fairly closely, passing through a few small towns on the way. Some, such as Wool Bay and Pine Point, were so small that you were through them before you noticed. The first fair size town was Stansbury. This had the prerequisite long jetty but not much of a beach. There were cliffs near the water which looked quite dramatic, and some houses wh...