Gismo Queen and her King

Day 4 - Forbes to Gunnedah

 We spent most of the day on the road today, and on the Newell Highway we had to share the road with truckies. Some are quite reasonable and we certainly try to be courteous by letting them overtake where possible, not speeding up when there is an opportunity for them, and keeping sufficient gaps between our convoy of three vans. But we sure heard from those today who were certainly not happy with us (caravanners generally,  but specifically us today plus a fourth van which was behind us). What can you do, but try and be obliging. In a way, it does add to the stress of driving. Today was a bigger day, as we did 455km. We were on the road by 8:30am although we did have to stop for fuel before we left Forbes. The day dawned very cool - to the point where  we ran the diesel heater all night set at 12C! But it was  a beautiful  sunny and even warm day. We stopped for elevenses at Dubbo which we enjoyed in the sunshine. Lunch was in a rest area just before Coonabaraban (with our fears of the place after our 2019 trip where we got stuck there for many days) and then we powered  on to Gunnedah where we are camped on the banks of the Namoi River. A fellow camper told us there were plenty of mice around. But fingers crossed, we haven’t  seen any yet. We collected  firewood that washed up in the recent floods and set ourselves  a great  campfire, in front of which we ate our corned beef dinner (prepped in the non-electric slow cooker this morning before we left) complete  with cheese sauce and mashed potato - ahhh, this is the life!,

posted by Tracey @ 8:51 pm