We have spent two nights in Toowoomba, and have moved on to Laidley today. My impressions of Toowoomba - dreadful weather, dreadful roads, dreadful traffic. The day we arrived the fog was so thick you could cut it with a knife. By midday it was beginning to lift a bit. The good news was that the caravan park was literally around the corner from the Tourist Info Centre, so we deigned to drive that little bit further and settle in. The other good news was that it...

We rounded off our last night in Goondiwindi with a campfire with our neighbours and a few other campers. The next morning we left early to get good parking for the market. We needn't have bothered - the market was tiny and not very exciting, and there was certainly no problem in finding a park. Oh well. We set off to see the silo art at Yelarbon. It was nice, but not nearly as impressive as those in the Wimmera near Warracknabeal. And we had to travel 50 kms ...

Woke up yesterday and decided to have one final soak in the hot artesian pools before we leave - get our full money's worth. The weather was very crisp at seven o'clock in the morning, and the mist and haze from the heat of the water shrouded us as we soaked. We went to town for the pecan tour and learnt that Moree has a huge pecan farm. It was started 50 years ago by a guy from the US as he had farms there, but wanted to produce all year around so needed a plac...

Further In - The Overland Way Finally! Starting to head into the interior, into the great outback. We started our trek from a rest area just outside Townsville, which was really amazing. It was fuller than most caravan parks we had stayed in, and it went on for ever off the highway. Got a really good sleep deep at the back, so far from the highway noise. So we set off early in the morning heading for Charters Towers. This is a very interesting town. Gold was di...

Further Up Heading north from Airlie Beach, our first stop was the Whitsunday Gold Coffee Plantation, just up from Proserpine. We asked when the next tour would be, expecting maybe half an hour, and wondering if it would be worth waiting. "Um," the girl replied, "I think we have one on Sunday." Definitely not worth waiting. But we did get to see coffee trees, and the coffee berries (??) on them. George's hunter/gatherer instincts kicked in, and he had to have a ...