LEODESTRAVELOZZ

20260615 With all the cleaning, mowing and packing the motor home all completed all thats left is waiting for the rains to piss off. We finally hit the road at 12:40pm and I can’t believe it but the sun is shining, it will be interesting to see what miles we clock up this trip considering we have no idea where we a going. We did however find out a friend is looking at a property at Boonooroo and thats one place we haven’t been, so thats a good start. We hit the M1, Bruce Highway passing the continuous roadworks when just before Burpengary the traffic lights flash 80kl down to 60kl then back to 100kl, no reason of cause. Heading north we turned off to Eumundi and parked in a car park at the back of the town so we were high and dry. I walked the town then stopped for a coffee and Lemon Meringue tart, thats my sugar fix for the day so I continue exploring the history of this town. The old Eumundi Imperial Hotel, built in 1911, at a time when bullock teams and Jackaroos were a part of ...

25/04 We woke to drizzling rain so after we filled our bellies we left heading towards Port Macquarie along the Great Dividing Range, OMG talk about a winding slow descent, especially in a motor home and we had to endure 164km of it, but the ones I felt for were the poor buggers stuck behind us, especially the bikes, but lucky for them Des is considerate and always pulled over when he could. The road is known for extreme twists and steep sections so no wonder the bikes like it. The scenery as we reach the bottom of the range, finally. We enter the town of Long Flat, another one of those small towns you pass through on the Oxley Hwy, established in 1876. The town prides itself in a strong history of Rugby League, playing in 24 grand finals and winning 12 premierships since 1947. After reading about this Town I wished we would have stopped to check it out. The Long Flat Pub that was opened in 1876 and the original building still stands. Apparently the Pub has a reputation as one of the b...

20260424 On the New England Highway and once again we are dealing with roadworks, it baffles me why there’s two worker’s (not working) sitting in there cars or on a chair on the side of the road watching the traffic go by, when there’s traffic light signalling to stop or go. So not only do we pay for traffic lights to control the traffic we also pay two workers to watch the traffic go by. I’m also told these so called worker’s get around $80 an hour, what a bloody joke. Rant over we pass through Glen Innes and Armidale and on to Uralla where we continued onto Waltcha. This is a common site of where the taxpayers money is going, we literally are paying these people to watch traffic go by while they play on their phone's, it’s bloody disgraceful. It’s very dry heading to Waltcha but also very pretty. Waltcha as we enter the town, it looks like a picture Post Card. Another one of those quant little towns with  a  wonderful display of sculptures scattered through the streets ...