Day 4 - Narrabri to Toogoolawah - Wednesday 1st May 2024
This is our second time staying in Toogoolawah – last time
we camped at the Showgrounds but tonight we are in a rather nice “boutique
accommodation”.
Another decent day’s driving – 550km – but marred with lots
of road works. We spent a lot of time stopped at those road work traffic lights
where they only allow one lane at a time through. Still, today was our first
real experience of road works this trip so we should be grateful. It just meant
driving took a lot longer than planned.
We left Narrabri in good time this morning, with our first
stop of the day for fuel. We were aiming for Goondiwindi for elevenses but
roadworks made it more like 11:45am so we called it an early lunch as well. We
stopped at the Gunsynd Bakery. Now, anyone familiar with my family will know my
parents were deeply involved in horse racing. My mother, in particular, loved
Gunsynd – the “Goondiwindi Grey” as they called him on the racetrack in the late
‘70s. So I’d like to think she would have been proud of where we ate – the outside
of the bakery was even painted in his racing colours! We enjoyed a delicious
roast pork roll, a good sausage roll and an average coffee!
Our destination for this evening was aiming to be as close to
Caboolture as possible for tomorrow morning. The road works held us up a fair
bit so we revised our destination as we drove and settled on here. We made a
call to book us in and discovered a far reaching internet outage that we too
had encountered in Goondiwindi. I also took a call from my cousin who informed
us of the passing of my aunt, the last of my parents’ generation on the
Willmott side. Not unexpected but still sad.
We arrived here at 5ish and got settled. I fitted in a quick
walk around town and found the pub that would serve our dinner – literally the
only place open for dinner in this town! It was parmi night so I enjoyed that.
Back to our comfortable room for a cup of tea and an early night, ahead of the
excitement of tomorrow!
posted by Tracey @ 8:31 pm
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