Today had 3 phases. Amanda, Claudie and Janine went for a horse ride and I think they all really enjoyed themselves. Janine was obviously nervous about it. She's a student of animal behaviour I think: she has that amazing way with horses but it also means she has a sense about people too so she knew Claudie was an amateur and nervous. J was brighter and so he and I rode the bikes out across the flat to where Tim, Kurt and Brendan (farm hand) were putting i...

Jimmy still works and he had an early morning start at Woorabinda at 9am so we didn't get to see him too much. We took the bikes for a ride around Baralaba. It is a town frozen somewhere in the 1970's. Wide dusty main street, locals who drive past slowly to check out the strangers but still wave like old friends, ancient petrol bowsers. The free van park down by the weir is pretty busy and Jimmy tells me it's like that all the time with travellers from all ...

6° in the morning and with a wind chill too! Hello caravanning. Must buy a heater. Have realised we left several things behind and have brought several things we probably won't use. Novice caravanning 101. The day started a bit late and we made several more stops than anticipated: Toowoomba (shops), Dalby (lunch), Miles (toilet), Taroom (diesel, snack, Leichardt's tree), Banana (check map and look at the statue of the yellow bull called 'Banana'). The...

We're off! Picked up the van from Camp Mountain Campers. Packed up in a bit of a hurry because we wanted to get going ASAP. In hind sight, we have ended up with so much stuff in the van that we probably won't use. Headed off at about 3pm and drove to Mum's for a cuppa. Mum and Rob very happy to see us and check out the van and the Challenger. Drove on to Toowoomba and it was dark and cold and raining and windy on arrival. Quite tricky getting set up for...