After brekky we headed back to Western Battery to get our gorgeous little camper fixed. With the battery fully charged yesterday she started no problem. We left her with Mark at Western Battery to have her alternator transplant and we walked to the park to kill an hour or so whilst we waited. Two hours later we were very relieved to get a phone call from Mark to confirm that the transplant went well and she was ready to go. We were really pleased to see our littl...

We were planning on going to the Blue Mountains today. After breakfast though we set off back to Orange. The coolant and some other warning lights had lit up on the van a couple of days ago. There was a KMart Tyre & Auto in Orange so we wanted to have it checked out there. They had flushed the coolant through in Sydney when it had been serviced and we thought it might be something to do with this. The coolant level was fine though and the camper was starting ...

There had been some strange noises in the night. Luckily when we woke up we both realised that we had not been murdered. I stupidly decided to have a shower before we left. I might as well not have bothered. The amenities looked and felt scummy and I still felt dirty after my shower. I straight away felt like I needed to have another shower. There were no locks on the shower door but I managed to shut the door by pulling it tight. I only managed to get out by kic...

Check out time was noon which was good so we took our time this morning and had a lie in and leisurely breakfast. Just before noon we hit the road to continue with our inland loop and avoid the marauding Easter hordes. We had decided to stay at either Forbes or Parkes tonight and just chill out there for the day. We got to Forbes and decided to move on as there wasn't much there. A short while later we got to Parkes and with hindsight realised that we should have...

We decided not to have breakfast at the camp site as we didn't want to be stared at. We drove to the Orange Botanic Gardens and had breakfast in the car park there. After brekky we had a mooch around the gardens. We were watching the ducks go about their business placidly and quietly when a couple of obnoxious kids walked past. Their parents were quite a way ahead and didn't notice as the young lad, aged about 8, picked up a load of stones and hurled them at the ...