After leaving Toowoomba we travelled south back to Texas where Allen had arranged for some electrical work to be done on the car and van with a guy that seems to know his stuff. It only took us two and a half hours and we were back in our lovely camp spot near the river. They had had some rain and the area was green again. We quite like Texas, small place but has everything. Work done and off we go to Yelarbon where we thought we might stay but on arriving th...

30 years ago we lived in Toowoomba for 2 years. Ok we thought, lets go and see our old place and check out this lovely little town!! OMG what a shock! This place has exploded....it is HUGE! We didnt recognise anything. This place used to be a lovely small city to drive around and was a nice place to bring up kids with a country mentality. Small, friendly and very family orientated. Well now it is a HUGE city and I would certainly get lost here. We located...

Well who knew we had a TEXAS in Australia! We crossed the NSW/QLD border at a little town called Texas on the Dumerasq River which is currently very low but when flooding covers a huge area. The town relocated because of flooding but apparently it is common for the area we are currently camped in to floor at this time of the year. We are now watching for rain lol. The cattle are still following us. The ones from our last stop at Bonshaw Weir turned up on our...

Travelling on the inland roads leads us to lots of unexpected waterways that are just perfect for camping. After Texas we drove to Cunningham Weir which was nice but campers had left lots of rubbish and the flies were bad so we left and moved on to another weir, Whetstone Weir, 14kms from Inglewood. What a gorgeous place, we had a great time here, still travelling with friends we met a couple of stops back. We were able to stand under the weir and have the wat...