Gismo Queen and her King

Tamworth to Molong - Thursday 4 July 2019

Greg and I took it fairly slowly this morning even thought it was pack up day, as Neill and Jude packed up early and headed to the caravan repair man to get their awning motor replaced. That all went according to plan, and maybe we should have gone with them as someone had their shower hatch replaced at the same time and that took less than five minutes! We discovered early on this trip that our hatch was stuck shut - we thought just because of lack of use. At Andrew's where we had access to a ladder we got up there to try and fix it and discovered it was so brittle from the sun that it crumbled as soon as you touched it. So at the moment we have a lot of duct tape holding it together. Maybe we could have got a group discount at the caravan repair man!


Anyway, we were on the road by 10:30 and decided to get through Tamworth and out the other side before we stopped for morning tea. The wind was up again, although the sun was still shining and it's not too cold. We got to Malleley for lunch - another little town that Greg and I have seen a lot of in the last couple of years going to Andrew's. Then we had a big afternoon of driving through small towns such as Coolah, Duneedoo, Wellington through drought affected country. We had some hills and valleys, mostly farm land with a few occasions of stock grazing the long paddock and it was approaching sunset as we pulled into Molong. We had already identified the Showgrounds as the best campsite and headed out of town to the combined showgrounds/golf course. A great spot - obviously very old showgrounds - but nice and quiet and only two other campers here. Neill, Jude and I walked many of golf course holes as it got dark just to stretch muscles after driving all day before Cafe Patriot (our caravan) provided the venue for dinner tonight. I had put a corned beef in the non-electric slow cooker this morning so we had a lovely dinner with more music inside the van as we couldn't have campfires here. Another great night.

posted by Tracey @ 8:19 am