We were up and ready to go a little after 8 am but Brett found the milk in his fridge had leaked so he needed to do a bit of a clean up first. Then it was off to Windorah to refuel. We really noticed the wind on this leg of the trip, it seemed to be coming from the north and most of the driving was north to north east. The fuel economy meter on the Paj was saying about 13.5 l/100km. After WIndorah we were heading south to south east towards Quilpie and the economy improved to around 11.5 for the Paj, Brett's V8 was also much better. It was a fairly boring drive to Quilpie with the only sights really being the occassional Emu and chicks crossing the the road. Then it was onto to Charleville in another boring drive and Brett didn't refuel as he thought he could make it to Roma OK, so we continued on.
However, just to be safe he refueled at Morven. It was getting late in the arvo and the roos had started coming out beside the road but they didn't give us any problems. We continued onto Roma where we arrived about 7 pm. Brett found a luxurious motel while I put the tent up, for the final time at one of the caravan parks, and after a long days drive the hot shower was wonderful. I headed to bed early so I could be up and ready to meet Brett for Brekky at Maccas at 8:30 am.
I was up relatively early and packed up quickly, then went and got some cash out after phoning the Bank's fraud people to temporarily unfreeze my card. I refueled the car and made it to Maccas on time. Brett had also been up early and visited the local car wash, his shiny clean Cruiser just didn't look right next to the dirty dusty Paj in the car park. We then hit the road for an easy but boring drive home, stopping in Toowomba for lunch and I got back to the coast about 3'ish in the afternoon. I unpacked the car, which took awhile and it finally sunk in that the trip was finished, although I was tempted to use the remainng firewood in the back yard to cook dinner. A nice long hot shower afterwards and then an early bed time in a very comfortable bed. The End.
No comments:
Post a Comment