I had been thinking about a long touring drive in our ‘79 MGB for some time and with my daughter’s pregnancy about to take her off on long leave, we were running out of time to get away for a break. The south coast of NSW is always a great drive and as we pored over the maps a rough itineraty evolved. We would follow the coast to Pambula where my grandfather had been gold mining and then on around into Victoria to Lakes Entrance. Then onto Bairnsdale and up The Great Alpine Road to Albury where we would overnight with friends and then back through the Snowy Mountains and home. Monday the 1st November saw us on the road by about 9.30 with the top down and fingers crossed that the rain wouldn’t happen, wrong,
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