After leaving Agnes Water we headed for Rockhampton where we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn. During our few days in Rockhampton we visited the privately owned and operated Capricorn Caves and the Archer Park Rail Museum. We also took a sightseeing drive to Emu Park to see the “Singing...

After leaving Maryborough we headed to Bundaberg for a few days where we did mostly regular tourist stuff: we visited the Botanic Gardens, the Bert Hinkler Museum and Hinkler House, the Bundaberg Barrel (home to Bundaberg Ginger Beer) and Bundy Kegs (the cooperage that makes and maintains the...

We’ve had a very busy couple of weeks – one of which we spent on Fraser Island – and as we learnt almost every day “timing is everything …” We stayed at “The Wallace” caravan park in Maryborough for four nights – it was a really nice...

This last ten days has been mostly about things beginning with the letter ‘B’: Brisbane, books and bookings, Bix & Bob, Bunya Mountains, buckwheat pasta, bamboo dinnerware and batteries. We arrived at my mother’s place in Toowong, a suburb of Brisbane, on Saturday...

Ron and I stayed at the Gateway Village Holiday Park in Grafton for a couple of days and, in addition to meeting our house-sitter Susan (she will be moving from the nearby town of Lawrence to Canberra in the near future), we spent some time exploring the area. On Thursday, and on...

We’ve just spent a lovely few days at one of our favourite places – the farm that our friends Lindsay and Eileen live on and which borders the Hat Head National Park near Kempsey. We arrived on Sunday afternoon and had great weather the whole time and, surprisingly for May, the...

We’ve just had a lovely week staying with our friends Allan & Vivian who live at Coomba Bay (near Forster) and exploring a little bit of the Forster/Tuncurry and Gloucester surrounds (we plan to spend a lot more time exploring these areas and more of this region on our next trip)....

After spending a few days staying with Ron’s mum and visiting some friends we left Newcastle on Thursday morning and headed for Dungog to spend the ANZAC Day Long Weekend camping with some friends from the FJ Cruiser forum community. After stopping in Dungog for some supplies we headed...

We’ve spent the last week getting ready to go: the house has been cleaned, tidied and somewhat rearranged for the house sitter and her young son; and we finished preparing and packing the camper and all the personal stuff we need to take with us. By the time Friday night came I was...

The leaves on our trees have started to change colour so we’ve decided to leave Canberra and head north before the cold weather sets in – as a result we’ve had quite a bit of preparation to do … First and foremost has been the tasks of making sure both the Toyota FJ...

As avid motorcyclists for almost 40 years my husband and I (and our kids in either a side-car or as pillion passengers) have travelled extensively throughout Australia and, through necessity, we have always been small tent (small everything actually!) campers. In October 2009 we both took...

Today we returned to our daughter’s home in Durham, NC. On the way home we visited the North Carolina Aviation Museum which has an interesting collection of old planes and a lot of memorabilia from many of the conflicts the US has been involved in.  The museum was staffed by a couple of...

Today we travelled from  Easley, SC to Gastonia, NC and, after visiting a couple of waterfalls, we spent the rest of the day walking around the towns of Highlands and Cashiers (both in NC). Most of the businesses in the town of Highlands were rather trendy and upmarket and being a Sunday in a...

Today we travelled from Birmingham, AL to Easley, SC the long way (~350 miles/~600kms) and through a total of four states:  Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Our aim today was to be at ‘Rhodes Big View’ lookout (which is about halfway between the towns of...

Today we travelled from Dalton, GA to Birmingham, AL and, by contrast to yesterday, our trip today was all about the destination – the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama. The aim of the museum is to preserve the history of motorcycles from an international aspect...