Blogs from Albury, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Day 1 (4/4/2021)Temps: Max 30C, Min 11C Departed Cranbourne at 7.55AM. Traffic fairly light since most people are away for the Easter break. Decided that we would get a 2 day head start with fine weather & found a place to free camp that was not flooded with noisy campers. We only had 4 semi trailers pass us on the whole drive, which included regular stops to rest, stretch & have a mental break. Arrived at Jindera at 1.35PM. Jindera is a small town with a population of 2,200. At the local sporting ground they have a free camping area set aside for self contained RV's. The area adjoins the local oval, tennis courts, pool, skate park & wetlands. After setting up & enjoying Happy Hour & relaxing, we strolled across to the Jindera Hotel almost ... read more

Usual drill breakfast to last the day and off to the last day of the cars show and shine, wandered through them trying to remember what we had seen yesterday and what we hadn't .... hot today and at 1.30 pm we left the cars and went to sit on the corner and watch them roll out as many were leaving to head home. Sat till 3pm and drove back to the motel Don had a rest and we went back down to the club again for the last night 3 course meal $22 bucks. Has been a great little home away from home and nice to have a few days just to pause a bit.... read more

Thursday up and out had a look around Wangaratta did a little shopping and drove on toward Albury, found a really old Historic Town Chiltern and had a coffee .... like a ghost town with most shops open, had a drive around and saw lots of old houses .. quite a sizeable town. Drove on towards Albury and had a look at Rutherglen another very old town, didn't stop carried on through vineyards and old mansions to Albury, rolled in about 4pm and very much like Cambridge with lots of oak trees down all streets ... a bit bigger than Cambridge but very nice. Sorted out at the Motel then down to the SS&A Club in Albury for dinner ... a huge complex and we had the seafood platter for 2 it was far to much ... read more

We survived the 15 hour flight to Sydney and it wasn't that bad. It's definately better travelling with kids in many ways because you don't get so bored on these long flights. In fact it's just like a normal day of feeding and trying to get them to sleep! The time seemed to go past quite quickly. It was the first flight I have ever gone without any sleep. Amelia and Samuel seemed to play tag team so that when one was asleep the other woke up. Samuel hardly slept at all to be honest. I don't want to go on about it too much but I can't get over how good the kids were. They really rose to the occasion. We didn't have one tantrum from Mimi. A few moments of being over tired, but ... read more

hi friends, havnt left yet, val and i r off tomorrow to Broome, sailing for a week , then to Halls Creek and the ride. Attached picture of my setup Bike is my old GT Zaskar mountain bike from Ro and Sydney Olympics. Put hard smooth tyres on it and a pannier rack. "Hold together girl" Note the small solar charger on a panier. My comms will be whenever and however i can get a message thru, but plenty of opportunity. Have a wi phone, and abo settlements all have mobile coverage, tanami mine will have phone or internet, and a friend has told me that if i can get within 30m of the microwave towers that cross the desert can get some reception. Otherwise maybe messages relayed by passing motorists. That friend just referred to ... read more