Well we’ve been at Paul’s for a few days now and at last we are going out to explore the local area a bit.

The walk we have decided to take is at Cunninhams Gap, at the peak of the Great Dividing Range. This entails a back track from Paul’s but it turned out to be worth it just for the views.

Yesterday we had an early start for our flight to Brisbane where we picked up a camper van.  I think perhaps our days of tenting may now be over. We then headed off to our friends Rosemary and Christine for an over night stop before travelling onto Paul’s.

During this trip i hope to be able to not only track where we travel but also get video footage of the drive.

Like all good road trips there are a few false starts and detours to be made. The first error was driving past Anaconda and the first detour was to make a u-turn to visit Anaconda. For those nt in the know Anaconda is a large camping store and the urgency to visit them was to enable us to get a porta-poti for our van.

That detour having been successfully accomplished, with the aid of the tomtoms, yes we have two of them, one came with the van and I had brought my own from NZ we are back on our way. Just to be sure we were heading off in the right direction Jo also had the route planned out on Google maps and here in lies a story.

Both the tomtoms were going some 30 kms further than Google….

Having traversed the Great Dividing Range we were starting to get close to our destination. Jo was worried that we might go too far and end up having to travel back to where Google maps was sending us, so eventually I decided to placate Jo and stop and ask for directions.

The only place on our route was a small dinner decked out in Confederate flags it wouldn’t have looked out of place in hick town America. I braved it and went and asked if they knew where the address was while Jo tried phoning Paul.

The owners were very friendly but they didn’t have a clue, they even checked on google for me without success. I returned to the van only to find out that Jo had managed to speak to Paul and that we were a matter of only 300 metres away. I’m not sure what Paul has been up to while he has been out here, but meeting the neighbours doesn’t seem to have been on his priority list.