Words from the Road

Had a good run up to the Gold Coast on Thursday and Friday. The past few days have pretty well been like this...

Katy's Schedule for Thursday 17th February
6:43 Leave Ferntree Gully
7:05 Leave Heathmont
7:13 Stop at Kilsyth 7-11
7:20 "On the Road Again..."
Later that day Arrive Gilgandra



Our first day on the road begain around 6.00 for Katy, and 6.15 for me, in Ferntree Gully. After heading across to Heathmont to pick up Emma, we were off on our way to our first destination, of Gilgandra, with a quick stop in Nagambie, and about a 45 minute stop in Numurkah to visit Caz and Trent, who none of us had seen for a little while...

We got to Gilgandra a little late (around 8pm or so), as our day on the road (like the following 3) took us longer than expected. Thursday took us longer than expected, due to our first ordered lunch at Finley pub first being served uncooked (nothing worse than uncooked Chicken Kiev or Schnitzel).

As we drove through Jerilderie, we drove through clouds and clouds of locusts. Quite a bit of fun, watching them go SPLAT on the windscreen as we drove through them.

We had dinner at one of the truck stops at Gilgandra, and the steak sandwich I had was fantastic!

Katy's Schedule for Friday 18th February
Morning: Leave Gilgandra
Later that day Arrive Surfers Paradise



A pretty uneventful day on the road on Friday, a lot of mileage (we decided between us that there is no such term as kilometerage). We (well, me) were up lateish on Friday, I was woken as the 7.15 am train went through the town. We got some brekky at the milk bar and bakery in town, and then hit the road. We stopped for lunch in Goondiwindi, where we couldn't work out why the sports club was so quiet until about 2.30, when there was a huge influx of people wanting meals... About an hour down the road, we realised that we had changed timezones, and our "late pub lunch" of 1.30, was actually an early one of 12.30!

Not a lot happened between Goondiwindi and the Gold Coast, and the road is pretty unspectacular, aside from driving across through the hills through Warwick, and across the past Mount Tamborine. It's an excellent driving road through the mountains, and the Forester handled it very well!