On the Road

The party was really good. Trev met us at the door dressed as Elvis. There were lots of pink ladies and blokes with greasy slicked back hair. Took a couple of photos of Lyn and I with Trev and the quilt and would put them up here but at the moment my laptop isn't recognising the new dvd/cd writer that I bought before we left home. Once I get that fixed I will be putting the photos up here and he absolutely loved his quilt, in his speech he said that he felt 'very humble' that his "sisters" would go to so much trouble for him.

We finally hit the road on Sunday morning around 11.30 and didn't stop until we were in NSW. The coast road south is very different to 20 years ago and we thoroughly enjoyed the trip around the coastline. Some very beautiful spots.

The first night we camped in a rest area (the name of which escapes me) where we shared the area with 7 roosters. What with the trucks passing by our door and the roosters crowing we didn't get a good nights sleep. The second night was much better, again in a roadside rest area but a little further off the road and no roosters.

Sydney was a nightmare of the first order. Richard our Tom Tom navigator died 4 days before we left home and no matter how I tried I couldn't fathom out what I had done wrong. Consequently we had nothing on the navigator and no help with Sydney. Armed only with Camps3 and the Sydney throughroads (not comprehensive) we tackled the traffic and slowly but surely headed southwards through what we believe was an unbelievable amount of cars, trucks and everything that has 2 wheels or more.

We finally arrived in Wollongong late on Wednesday afternoon, set the van up and collapsed.

Marg and Hans arrived at our van park (Shellharbour Beachside Tourist Park - very nice and clean) and I gave Marg her quilt. She was very emotional and totally gobsmacked. They then took us to see the sights and we went up to the lookout at Mt. Kiera and then had a lovely fish lunch at the harbour before heading back to the van.

Friday was catching up with emails in a small video shop in the village and try to make some sense out of my Tom Tom. No luck I needed a larger sd card.

Yesterday Marg and Hans took us up to Stanwell Tops lookout via the seabridge. What an achievement is that and what a wonderful view from the top, no hang gliders flying which was a bit of a disappointment but is was showery and blustery. We found an orchard that sold from the gate and bought some white peaches and nectarines. Love white peaches! before heading to Hardly Normal to buy a sd card. Now I'm back at the internet cafe and in a moment will try to download my new tomtom map for my new tomtom card.

Will post photos when I work out why my laptop is not recognising my new cd/dvd writer.