Tasmania
December 2013 to January 2014
Parkes Family: Col 48, Cheryl 43, Jordan 17, Jack 16
Williams Family: Bruce 44, Fiona 42, Jessica 17
Morgan Family: Gary 43, Leah 42, Eliza 9, Amara 6
It was an early start, leaving Belmont Shell Station by 7am
after topping up with diesel. Col and I in the Defender, Bruce and Fiona in the
‘People Mover, Casper’ and the teenagers (Jordan, Jack and Jess) on their first
road trip together in Jordan’s ‘P’ plater Rocky. Morgans will catch up with us
later in the day as they can travel at 110km/hr. I’m so lucky that Col likes to
drive all day and I manage to get plenty of naps.
Yass is where Morgans caught us. It was a quick lunch at
Yass Subway. If only we knew to take our lunch 1/2km further, we could have had
it in the park by a lovely river. Just a bit further on and we were waving to
Hassells as they were heading north, back from Hay.
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In the time it took us to get to Albury, Morgans were able
to visit the ‘Dog on the Tuckerbox’ as well. They had cancelled their plan to
go to Ballerat at the last minute and had booked in to Albury, while Fiona had
Williams and Parkes already booked into a roadhouse at Wodonga.
There was a lovely park with a great playground, bridge,
rotunda, and ponds with ducks and swans. Great for ridding ourselves of the
cobwebs and stiffness of 9hrs travel.
The kids swam in the pool while Fiona broke out the nibblies
and wine.
Leah, Gary, Eliza and Amara joined us for pizza. They are having trouble with their fridge power connection. It was too small. Col has plenty of parts and even a soldering iron, but ended up just having to bend the prongs out.
Time for a well earned sleep!
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