Home From Holiday

Lib and I sat in the car on Sunday eating cold chicken and a tub of rice, the last picnic lunch of our 17 day holiday. Lib had been driving since Bonnie Doon. She intended to stop at Yea for a Subway but kept going saying she didn't think there was a Subway there. "We'll get a Subway at Yarra Glen," she said. There was no Subway there so she kept going again. By this time we were only about 30-40 minutes from home and I was fine to get home to eat, knowing Gord would have bread and something to put in it but she suddenly turned into the IGA at Coldstream. It was a cold chook left over and reduced to $4 so with a $2 tub of fried rice each it was good.

We travelled about 4,900kms in the seventeen days, up the Newell Hwy to Brisbane then to the Sunshine Coast, the Mary River valley, Gympie as far north as we went, back to the Gold Coast, Lamington National Park, Evan's Head, Woody Point near Illuka, Yamba, then across the Divide to Tamworth, Mudgee, Young, Junee, Wagga Wagga, Jindera near Albury, then Wangaratta where we attended the 40 year reunion of Lib's final high school year.

We saw so much wonderful country and agriculture. Highlights were magnificent scenery, our lunch picnics by rivers or creeks or at town parks, and superb dinners prepared by Lib mostly in relaxed holiday atmosphere. The lowlight was a near head on accident late on day three near Beerburum when we rounded a corner to have a car coming straight at us who was trying to overtake a string of cars over double lines. We escaped collision with inches only to spare it seemed, by driving off the road.

I'll post some photos and give more details of our trip when I have time. I need sleep now after a great deal of activity in my two days back on deck. It's great to be home with all well here, but the grass and weeds have gone nuts and I have catching up to do.