Gismo Queen and her King

Let's hit the road!

The roadtrip has started again! Yesterday we left home at 7:30am but it wasn't really the first day of our trip as we were only going to Bendigo, and were having the caravan serviced. We had to drop it off at 9:30am and then we had five hours to kill before it was ready. So we went to vote (thankfully, the early voting centres opened that day), had lunch, did some last minute shopping, had coffee and headed back to pick up the van. They were just starting to fit our stone stomper (a new purchase to protect the front of the van from stone damage and also the rear of the car) so we checked that out and were on the road by 4pm. We only headed 23km up the road to a free camp in Bridgewater on Loddon and settled in for the night.

A lovely warming dinner of spaghetti bolognaise, some initial issues with the TV which made me realise the service people had kept our caravan book, and a snug caravan thanks to the diesel heater. We slept well although it was pretty cold this morning! Good thing Greg only had to reach out an arm to flick on the diesel heater and neither of us had to get out of bed until it was warm enough!

The very obliging caravan service man got one of his staff to run our caravan book back out to us. So we left at about 10am for what was quite an easy day's drive. Had several stops, including Sea Lake for lunch. We had the music blaring in the car and Greg was monitoring the UHF - rather fortuitously as it turned out when one truck called us up (as the Burgundy Landcruiser - doesn't he know the colour is Merlot?!?!) to tell us I had left the TV antenna up! We got into Mildura at 3pm and had to navgate school traffic as we headed to Merbein just outside Mildura for our campsite on the banks of the mighty Murray.

It was a gloriously sunny day - up to 21C in Mildura! It's very peaceful here on the Murray although I saw a paddlesteamer go past as well as a few other small boats. Plenty of birds around, who wanted to share our beer o'clock chips. Went for a walk along the river banks before it got too cold as we now settle in for the night - with the heater!

posted by Tracey @ 6:24 pm