Departure day is done! I'm snuggled in bed at a campground a Muckadilla after doing about 650km today. Despite it being a warm day, 6pm hit and with it the cold rolled in. So we outlasted the gray nomads by a respectable 1 hour before crawling into bed at 7pm to keep warm.
Oh well. We have a good excuse for an early night. The last few days have been flat chat with both Daz and I doing work handovers and scrambling at every moment in between to get all those last jobs done. Of course it's been raining which didn't help with getting lawns mowed and washing done, but hey we made it! In the end everything was so well prepped that we had time to cramb in a few episodes of "H2O Just Add Water" on Netflex last night. Boy are we gunna miss that show!
The Oldies were hooked up and ready to roll by about 3pm yesterday. We had to leave it a bit longer (till after the friday arvo school run) until we could do the final pack and hook on the camper.
This morning all that was left to do was hook the boat onto the patrol, glad wrap the outboard (we had to leave this to the end because of space problems in the shed), lock up and leave. We did so by 0830 and had one of those wonderfully uneventful trips that involved us not forgetting anything (that we remember yet), and not breaking anything. It pretty much doesn't get better than that!
I had all these great ideas to crank up a bit of Willy Nelson "On the Road Again" as we trundled off down the road, but Matilda overruled my plans and insisted on Taylor Swift. Thus begins six days of in car torture. Oh well. Shake it off! Shake it off!
Tomorrow we hope to make it to somewhere around Longreach, and then meet up with the oldies at Mary Kathleen on Monday.
So that's it. We're away! The open road lays before us and we're on our way to the Great top end! Yew!!
Oh well. We have a good excuse for an early night. The last few days have been flat chat with both Daz and I doing work handovers and scrambling at every moment in between to get all those last jobs done. Of course it's been raining which didn't help with getting lawns mowed and washing done, but hey we made it! In the end everything was so well prepped that we had time to cramb in a few episodes of "H2O Just Add Water" on Netflex last night. Boy are we gunna miss that show!
The Oldies were hooked up and ready to roll by about 3pm yesterday. We had to leave it a bit longer (till after the friday arvo school run) until we could do the final pack and hook on the camper.
This morning all that was left to do was hook the boat onto the patrol, glad wrap the outboard (we had to leave this to the end because of space problems in the shed), lock up and leave. We did so by 0830 and had one of those wonderfully uneventful trips that involved us not forgetting anything (that we remember yet), and not breaking anything. It pretty much doesn't get better than that!
I had all these great ideas to crank up a bit of Willy Nelson "On the Road Again" as we trundled off down the road, but Matilda overruled my plans and insisted on Taylor Swift. Thus begins six days of in car torture. Oh well. Shake it off! Shake it off!
Tomorrow we hope to make it to somewhere around Longreach, and then meet up with the oldies at Mary Kathleen on Monday.
So that's it. We're away! The open road lays before us and we're on our way to the Great top end! Yew!!
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