On the road day 2

Lots of driving today, paddocks, empty spaces  the smoke from stubble burn off. We stayed overnight at Parkes  well known for the Elvis festival.

painted building leaving Jerilderie

geocaching shop, cache was in the plane, but you has to climb out to the wheel to reach it, so was not one for me.

Lunch stop at Wyalong

some of the locals 

tractor towing  farm equipment and raising dust

Scrub Stitch'n and heading home

Sunday morning I went out to take photos of my two finished kaleidoscope blocks

Am very happy with them.

Sunday afternoon we followed Chooky to her house and had a photo outside the Chookshed!

Tourists!!

We went to help feed the cattle but Mr Chooky had finished when we got there.

It is just so dry here

A glimpse of the sunset

the front of Chookys house, bore water keeps the grass growing around the house, could not imagine how it would feel if all around the house was brown...we used to get that in Gisborne over the summer, everything dried/died off and it was so depressing.

Out the front gate we went for the trip back to Melbourne.

We had to stop on the way and get a photo pf this beautifully painted tank. I can't remember the name of the town it was in.  Update, Janice tells me the town name is Gulargambone, affectuonally known as "Gular", thank you Janice.

Lots of dry red soil.

Another small town with a beautiful old church.

I had to say goodbye to Raewyn at the airport

We are still working on our selfie skills, but we give each other a good laugh when we try!!

The total kms we did for this trip was 2268.3 according to my calculations, not bad for a couple of Kiwis exploring Aussie.

Happy travels.

Group photos pinched from Chookys blog

Road trip

After spending less that 24 hours at home I was back on the road and back to Tullamarine where I met up with Raewyn. We stayed at a hotel at the airport and this morning headed off up the Hume highway.  We were supposed to turn off onto the Goulburn Highway but I missed the turn off, so we continued on up the Hume.  Never let a missed turn spoil a good road trip!!
We stopped at a road side rest stop for a comfort stop and then I discovered there were 2 geocaches, one at each end of the rest area. One was in an area with lots of black boy plants, I will have to add a photo later as they are on my camera.

Raewyn and I just worked out how to get the photos from the camera to the tablet here...wonders of modern technology!! Not much helped by tired brain!!!

A spot of geocaching.

 We stopped at Holbrook for lunch and then carried on to Gundagai where a compulsory stop was needed for a photo of the Dog on the Tucker Box.

Thanks to Raewyn for the photo.

And a photo with the koala!! 😊

Raewyn perfected the NSW backwards parking manoeuvre in one go, I was most impressed!!

We arrived into Forbes around  6pm on just the fumes in the petrol tank I think, never been that close to empty before!!

Some knitting was done in the car today, not in the mood for it tonight, just blog reading and lolling about.

Off to Baradine to meet the lovely ladies tomorrow!!

Woohoo!!