As usual I was awake as the sun came up but it was too bloody chilly to get out of a nice warm bed, so I slept in until about 7:30 am. Then it was a quick pack up and into Longreach to refuel the car and grab a coffee and sausage roll to eat on the road. It was a good run and I stopped off in Blackall for a vanilla slice and an iced coffee before heading onto Morven for a final refuel and a burger for lunch.
This part of the trip was still a very boring drive and although I had been planning to stop in Mitchell for the night, it was too early in the day to stop.
I decided to make for Gill Weir camping area just outside Miles, so continued east. From Morven to Mitchell there were a lot of dead Roos on the road and I was glad I wasn't driving in the dark. From Roma to Miles there were several sets of road works with those bloody unattended traffic lights, at which I sat for a not inconsiderable time while there was no other traffic around. This slowed me down a bit and I drove into Miles just before the sun went down. The usual free camping area on the western side of the town near the bridge was disrupted by road works so I headed south about 5 or 6 km to Gill Weir camping area and found a nice spot down at the end of the track near the water. I quickly setup before the light disappeared, had a quick bite to eat and then sat back and relaxed. After a bit of blog writing I was going to go to bed early and wondered what it would be like being home again sometime tomorrow.
Then some idiot drove down in a noisy patrol with spotties blaring and parked next to my car and it was Shane. Of course he'd stopped off in Roma for some KFC and had the remains for dinner. So we sat around chatting for awhile catching up on the events of the day.
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