Thursday, April 22, 2021

Day 13 - Maryborough to Gympie (supposed to be Brisbane)

Ooooh, is it because today is Day 13 and therefore unlucky or is it just because I haven’t  had much to write about over the last few days but boy, do we have a story for tonight!

The day started gently and normally enough. We were moving camp today and actually  going our separate ways before meeting up again tomorrow, because we had the van booked in for a suspension service tomorrow in Brisbane. We had run out of  gas overnight so I even had to get dressed and go outside to swap gas bottles before we could have a cuppa! But, we were all on the road before 10am with the first stop the Maryborough Showgrounds again to fill with water and dump the toilet. While there, we did have slightly early elevenses! We then detoured back into Maryborough to fill the gas bottle and met the others down the highway so we could travel in convoy for most of  the way. Sixty kilometres down the road we heard an intermittent squeaking/whistling sound from the vehicles so we radioed the others saying we wanted to stop and check. We all pulled into a rest area - and discovered one of our rear caravan tyres was red hot and smelt terrible. Just as we were all investigating, a woman pulled in behind us to say  she had been following us trying to get our attention because she saw smoke coming from our wheel! Turns out we have done a bearing which effectively renders us undriveable. We then spent the next four hours trying to get our roadside assistance to tow us, firstly to the place in Brisbane where we were already booked in, and then when that was going to cost more than $1100 and not get us until mid morning, to the nearest town where we found  a caravan repair place that could fix our bearing at 8am. So now we have a tow booked for 7am tomorrow, we are spending the night in this noisy roadside spot with slightly dubious fellow campers, but on the plus side, Neill and Jude and Peter and Rhonda are supportively still with us, we have a plan to fix the problem, Rhonda cooked a nice dinner for us, and as has been quoted lots on this trip “things are different when you’re camping”!!! And apparently, it all made for a good story for the blog tonight......

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