on the road again

Hello everyone.

Well we are on the road again. And since writing the other day we have travelled way to many kilometers for my liking. We took the old van (a Roma) to Melbourne as arranged. We got up at four and planned to leave at five till Ken realised that we would have to move the clock forward a half hour for the time difference. So that made us hurry and we got out the door right on half past four.

Ken had doubts as to whether the sale would go through or not but all went well. The puchaser was as happy as could be when he saw it. Evidently he hadn't been happy with previous purchases and he was being cautious. He and his wife are planning a holiday for next year and they intended to do a few things like add an airconditioner. His name was Angelo (we didn't tell him we had a cat (alright used to have a cat) by the name of Angelo. He had a really cool job. He looked after any animals that came into the country and had to be quarantined. He lived on site or at least close by because there were a few unhappy dogs we could hear barking close by.

As soon as the paperwork was done we said our goodbyes and headed straight back to Mt Gambier. Thankfully it was a straight run and without the caravan on the back a much faster trip than going.

We have been staying at the Mt Gambier Central Caravan Park and it is located close to the main streets. It was a Family Parks site and cost was only $20.70 a night. Great facilities (old but clean, spotless actually) Definitely worth coming back to again. Not a lot happened on Thursday other than a bit of shopping as we knew we would be back in the car again on Friday.

Having been backwards to and fro from Melbourne we decided to take the coastal route, at least as far as Warrnambool. The Great Ocean Road will be for another trip. We were told Nelson is a nice little holiday place and I'm sure in the summer it is packed but it didn't appeal to me.

On the other hand we thought Portland (which no one had said anything about) was lovely. Much bigger and busier than we had imagined and we will definitely return and stay for a while. We had our lunch near the information place and where we parked gave us water views from three sides of the van.

Friday was our first day of rain and it poured all day. We travelled much further than we had planned and we don't intend to do that again. Warrnambool is also a nice place and we will have a better look next time we go through. We did another free camp as we are tonight. We are now at Rosedale in the area over the bridge. there are already three or four other vans. There has also been a couple of horse floats stop to give the horses a walk and a stretch

Tomorrow we will head home to Justin's for Easter. Strange sort of feeling, coming home but not having a home to go to.

We stopped off quickly at Leanne and Tims to say hello and were lucky to see Ros and Kevin there too. There house continues to amaze us at all they have achieved in their reno.

More next time.... Time to go and relax