Well, after more than six months thinking about it, the time has finally come. I have been wanting to meet my relations in NSW for a few years now. I have also made friends with about a dozen people from NSW and Victoria over the last couple of years over the Internet and I would also like to meet them face to face.
So I have planned this holiday for months now and have spent the last week getting everything sorted out. I was all packed last night so today all I had to do was have breakfast, get cleaned up and hit the road.
This is a solo trip for me so it was a bit sad saying goodbye to my family this morning knowing I won’t see them for two weeks. But thanks to the mobile phone and the Internet, I will be able to keep in constant touch with them.
Today was a day spent travelling. I have arranged to meet my aunts, uncles and cousins at Maitland tomorrow so I wanted to travel most of the way today. I had booked a room at Taree earlier in the week.
I left Boonah at 7:05am this morning. Just out of Boonah I caught up to these motor bikes. “Great” I thought! I followed them from Maroon to Rathdowney. Their speed ranged from 40km/h to 100km/h – very frustrating. Maybe the damp winding roads had something to do with it. Thankfully they turned left at Rathdowney as I turned right. It showered from NSW border to Kyogle. I travelled to Casino where I fuelled the car and stopped for coffee at Macdonalds. (I was good, I had a Bran and Walnut muffin with my coffee instead of a burger).
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| St Marys Catholic Church, Casino NSW |
From Casino, I travelled to Grafton where I stretched my legs and bought some fruit, nuts and snacks at Aldi. There was barely a car on the road so far. It was very quiet. I then continued onto Coffs Harbour. As I was driving along the Pacific Hway, I turned onto a side road on impulse and it lead to a quiet secluded beach. So I pulled up and had a bit to eat at Diggers Beach.
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| The Big Banana at Coffs Harbour |
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| Diggers Beach, Coffs Harbour |
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| Manning River, Taree |
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| Manning River, Taree |
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| Manning River, Taree |
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| War Memorial, Taree |
I’m worn out now. I travelled 592km today. Tomorrow will be easier, only 180km to go to get to Maitland. We are having lunch at my cousin’s place. I’m so looking forward to meeting everybody.
And now I’m thinking very seriously about my bed…
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| My room for the night |
coool! 🙂 I travel 600km return every Melbourne market I do, plus I leave at 4:15am, don’t be such a sook 😉 xo
Excellant..particularly needed to know about the toilet break! ha ha ha ha rofl.
I should have given you the list of patchwork Shops..you could have stopped at each one and bought Maree (and me?) a present at each..he he
What I want to know is — how did you find time to do all that photoshopping?
:-))
nah not the same hahahaha
E, I’m male. I’m meant to sook…
Kylie, I’m male. I don’t shop…
🙂
Erica, they’re not photoshopped. All I did was resize them using Irfanview. OK I did crop the war memorial one as well. So pretty easy really…