Dear Family and Friends

Our second night was spent at Narrabri and we left their mid morning travelling on to a place called Millmeran Weir for another overnight stop which lengthened to two nights and would've been longer except water was low. On our first night at the Weir there was about eight of us at all. The others all belonged to a club and they were doing a trip around Queensland.

After a slow start to the day we headed to Toowoomba where we needed to fill up with water.

NSW roads have been atrocious. Qld have been marginally better. Hope they improve as we get further into OLD.

The weather has begun to warm up already and we are going sleeveless during the day. As we were travelling through Toowoomba, Ken in shorts and T shirt, me with my cardigan off , we stopped at traffic lights and standing at a corner were two women rugged up in winter coats, scarves and gloves. They were obviously locals. Later I was standing outside the information center and overheard someone on the phone saying it was bitterely cold. I had to smile, its all a matter of perspective and what you are used too. When we went inside to find out where we could fill up from, the volunteer said "you must be from down south" He also said it's not hard to pick us by the clothes we wear.

There have been lots and lots of caravans on the road each day, perhaps as many as 50 or 60. A few people at our stops have said they are on their way home. Evidently there will be quite an exodus of people leaving here soon as people begin to head home.

Toowoomba is situated well above sea level and so when you leave Toowooba and are heading north there is a very steep decine (very much like Lithgow in NSW, or Braidwood in Victoria) and by the time we got to the base and were back on level ground it was quite late and we hadn't as yet had lunch. So once we decided to pull in to the next layby for lunch. It happened to be a night camping spot so we decided to stay. There were five others staying the night so it was very pleasant.

We ran into some people that were at our Millmerrin stop. They were planning to have a fire later and said we were welcome to join them for happy hour, which we did. A roaring fire, a few drinks, Ken on Pepsi, me with lemonade everyone else on wine or beer, everyone was soon laughing and enjoying ourselves. It got too cold for me and by 6.30 I said goodbye, knowing that if I didn't go I would be too stiff and sore. By the time Ken came back I had tea ready. A good sleep and we we were off again by 9.30.

We got hopelessly lost trying to find a place called Laidly, a small RV friendly town which had a dump point we needed to use. Tom was most unreliable and thus had to take the scenic route which was quite nice. Eventually we got there, no thanks to Tom, so having found the dump point we decided to take a walk up one side of the main street and down the other.

After Laidly we put our trust back in Tom and set off this time to find a little town called Marburg . We are at the Showground park and will be staying here for at least two nights. This afternoon there were people practising for for the trots which are on over the weekend. They were lovely to watch. The horses looked so regal and pranced as they passed by.

Our neighbours tonight are Charlie and Fay who gave us all sorts of information about where was good and where wasn't so good to stay. They were a lovely couple and we had a very enjoyable afternoon with them.

Almost time for me to hit the sack.

So for now goodbye and love to all.

Ken and Lyn