We drove into Goondiwindi at noon to 35 degrees. This town will be our last in Queensland for maybe a year; tomorrow we cross the Macintyre River which runs behind the single street of shops and into New South Wales. For the last six weeks we have been travelling down through NSW to pick up our home on wheels from Gosford, an hour north of Sydney, then back up to register it in Warwick which was the closest decent sized town over the border in Queensland. This trip had several functions - mainly to avoid $2800 stamp duty if we’d registered the van in NSW, but also to keep near civilization while we trial towing the van and the myriad things inside and out that have to be connected, switched, hooked, packed, unpacked, locked, unlocked, put
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