I count the money left in my wallet after filling up with fuel.

Mainly to see if I can afford that donut sitting in the showcase looking lonely.

The other half, counts the money AND the donuts I am not supposed to eat.

Dusty

-- Edited by Landfall on Monday 25th of June 2012 07:50:05 PM

Have a great trip Pete - we are heading north - but have seen a lot of travellers heading south - we are at Home Hill, and the comfort stop there is packed every night - lucky for us have a friend here with a nice big yard!!! Home Hill is a great stop, and the travellers usually spend some money in the town, the supermarket prices are pretty good, and the meat from there is nice as well - the bakery, which is down a street off the main highway is well worth the detour - apple pies are almost as good as the Bunyip ones in Victoria!!!

I don't know about you, but I am just going around in circles...

Clyde Camel

Yep, been north, now heading south again.

Queensland - Perfect one day, pouring the next!

This morning in Coffs Harbour, Brrrrrrr cold - 5degrees, might as well stayed in Hobart.  But the day was brilliant.

The pacific Highway was crammed with RV's going both ways.

The caravan parks are quiet this year though, pricing themselves out of the market.

Safe travelling to everyone.

 

Dusty

 

We were counting kookaburras today between Moree and Boomi.

Yes, we count and record daily bird sightings along the way. Glenda

We just south of Darwin and the caravan park is full every day, we have just told to many folks about this park lol there is a waiting list to get in some have to go down the road to an other park until there is a vacant spot.

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.....almost as good as the Bunyip ones in Victoria!!!

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 I've never tried bunyip pies, I thought bunyips were protected.

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 not as good as wombat pies 

We traveled down that one-way strip of pot-holed tar from Normington to Cloncurry NT QLD a couple of years back,

Counted in excess of 50 caravans per hour, every hour, heading North.

Actually got the occasional wave as well,

Where has the friendly, Happy traveler got to these days ? 

 We are currently in Cairns and the caravan park has a fairly high turnover each day but is constantly fairly full, and others in the park tell us that Cooktown is also fairly full (our next stop) but on our way up to Cairns we also saw a lot of vans heading south.

I also wave to other travellers but only get about 50% response.

hullo pete,

Old mate, not every one of us silly ole chaps travels in conjuction with the grey nomad madness of dashing from one end of the country to the other in order to avoid the cold or heat.

Nearly every day I see some poor ole sole pull into a camp late, often on the death of darkness, where he madly rushes around like a looney & early the next day at some sparrow farts time he's up again early and off with haste to cover a few more hundred miles so he can pull up in the dark again. He eventually travells from the far south to the far north, just so he can sit around some camp spot for months on end and whine about the cost of diesel etc etc.

For me, I take the much more sensible approach and just tour the land to see the land and sometimes in all my insanity I end up going around and around the same area until Ive exhaused all avenues......which leads to my point, last week I was south bound on the highway & this week I will double trek back over a small section of the highway in a northerly direction to head inland a little to check out something else that my previous path didnt cross.

Last weeks highway traveller that past me as I was southboud is now going to see me northbound and a few days after that I will be southbound again unless I forge some southbound path thru the scrub.

So anyway, never asume when it comes to what you are seeing because not everything is as it might first appear.

mad as a hatter, I am Gerty, but when I travel, I like to see the whole area. I have no destination. Some days I travel 30-40-50 odd kilometres, sometimes I don't move for weeks. Normally I get going when the tuckerbox gets a bit low. I havent bought Diesel since early May and I've still got about 100 litres left in the tank.

Well HW, I hope to see you out there doin that, theres a lack of good sorts such as yourself out there.......hard for an old bach like me when theres nobody to wink at

How far south are you heading HW? I really want to head out to the Dubbo zoo, never been there and have heard its very good. Might go and see a few of my primate brothers and cousins.