Easter 2014 Lawn Hill trip Day 1

I got up with the alarm at 5am and tied the tent to the car, packed the fridge stuff and had a shower to complete the wake up process, then it was off to the local servo to fill up. I finally hit the highway at about 5:45 am and headed north to the Logan motorway. The first hour of driving was excellent, a nice multilane highway, hardly any traffic, the car purring along, the sun rising in the east and it was stil cool, a large Ice Break iced coffee, singing along loudly (and badly) to my collection of 70's and 80's music. I looked down to see I had gone about 100 kms and then reality kicked in and I realised I needed to do at least another 900 kms for the day.

Then it was on to Toowoomba and I had to change my singing style to a raspy, gravelly voice as it was the Darren Lockyer Way. The speed zones seemed to change randomly as did the appearance of road works. Hopefully they will build a Toowoomba bypass soon as I think the traffic lights are timed so that you have to stop at each set. :(

On the other side of Toowoomba they had fixed the road up quite abit since my last trip. After Dalby the traffic started to thin out and this continued until Roma where I stopped for fuel and lunch. As always happens the fuel pumps at the Roma Caltex don't like pumping into my main tank, luckily I had filled it from the auxiliary tank while driving. Then it was more driving and the traffic became almost nonexistent. I turned north at Morven and continued to have an easy drive, although I had a bit of a surprise when I came up behind a large Orica truck and saw the "Explosives" sign. I got past him quickly and continued on. I only saw a couple of live Roos along the road, most were dead and being eaten by swarms of birds. I finally got into Barcaldin at about 6:15 pm and checked into the first caravan park I came to, it turns out Phil is in the next one along. 

I set up the quick tent and swag and had some Moroccan Lamb for dinner. Then a nice hot shower before I sat down to write up the days adventures. All up a total of 1170 kms in 12:30 hours of pretty easy driving.