Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Hoping Thomas had a lovely 24th birthday 🙂

It was a beautiful day here today sunny around 27, nicest day we have had since we got here.    We drove up to the Hunter Valley, just over an hour north from here, was lovely to be outside enjoying the day.   We went to the Hunter Valley gardens first, but they wanted $24 each to go in, so we didn’t bother!   There was a touristy village close by, we had a wander and look in the shops. Continue reading →

We had a family day today.   Drove down to see Carmel & Ken and had some lunch with them, was lovely to catch up with them both.

In the evening we went around to Craig & Cook’s for tea.  Continue reading →

Didn’t do much today, finished my book which I really enjoyed and Greg tinkered some more with Karlien’s computer and put another coat on the door, no spillage today 🙂

Tuesday was much more interesting 🙂  Continue reading →

We got a good start this morning, left by 7am, filled up with diesel, watched the sunrise and we were on our way, travelled just over 900 km today, took 9 3/4 hours and it was uneventful   🙂   We arrived to a lovely 3 course, roast dinner.   Craig, Cook and Caitlin came over was great to see them all and catch up. 🙂 Continue reading →

We were lucky today, settlements went well, we left home at 12.20pm, had a great run through to Balranald, 513km in  5hrs 20mins.   The highlight of the drive was as we pulled into Balranald, got pulled over at a random breath test.  Greg just had to count to 10, no blowing!!  We got a few directions from the copper and we were off.   We have had dinner, brought it with us.   Feeling a tad tired, so will have an early night and hopefully be on the road early tomorrow.   Have 923 km to go to get to Wyoming tomorrow, so hopefully 9 1/2hrs of driving, should get in before 6 tomorrow 🙂

It has been a while since we added to our blog!!   But on Friday it all begins again 🙂 We are heading over to Wyoming for a couple of weeks to spend some time with family and friends and to do some touristy things.   Can’t wait …………….. 2 more sleeps! 🙂

Last night was a “little” crazy. We decided that Aiko needed her own Facebook page, so we set about creating it and then finding her a whole bunch of new friends. We had
so many laughs doing it, sometimes we had to stop just because of the fits of hysterical laughter we were in.  I know she will appreciate it. 🙂  She now has her own Facebook ID, aiko.woof, and her very own email address too!! Continue reading →

14 November 2011   Robe South Australia

Aiko slept well last night, and as a result so did we, thank goodness.

A red light on the toilet signal my first, and unavoidable, task of the day, a visit to the park “Dump Point”  (my old friend “apparently”).  What a way to start the day!

After breakfast we headed off to Beachport, about 45km south of Robe. We decided to take the coastal dirt road so we could call in and have a look at Nora Creina. Nora Creina is on private property, and is a “quaint” little village, where small parcels of land have been leased out to fisherman, who have then built fishing shacks there. It looks like it would be a fisherman’s heaven, fairly primitive living conditions and only a matter of minutes to the beach where you can launch tinnies from or take a drive up around the bay to find your own “secret” fishing spot.   I almost forgot, we are now in the country, so don’t forget
to lock the gate as you pass through! Continue reading →

11 November 2011  Home to Keith

We got away from home at around 3:20pm and headed south. I chose to go via the Dukes Highway, even though it was a bit further than the Princes Highway, as it seemed that there were a couple of reasonable Free camps about 3hrs drive away. Continue reading →

Tues 30^th Aug 2011

We had a nice evening with Dee and Mick Monday night, was
lovely to catch up, was hard to believe Mick had been in Alice Springs for a year, life is going too quickly!!

We set off a bit later than we wanted to this morning, was just before 8am,  but we had a good run through to Coober Pedy, Continue reading →