Archives: 2007 June

Earlyish start today. We planned to leave at 8am and managed to get away by about 8.10am. When we got up there was no power and apparently it was because some insulate pipe went and half of the mine site was out as well.
When we did leave there was so much fog around. [...]

It has been another wonderful day today with Josh, Petra and Mina. Got up nice and early (8 o’clock) to do the tour. It was great. Really informative and although we didn’t get to go underground I am not sure that I would have wanted to. I don’t know how they [...]

We had another sleep in this morning at Peterborough before heading up to Roxby Downs to see the fam. Just out of Peterborough we saw the V8 super car franchise truck coming towards us. We did a very speedy U Turn and went chasing after it in the hope that it would stop [...]

To give you a bit of an idea about the accommodation we stayed in at Broken Hill I have put in a couple of photos, one of part of the lounge area and one of the foyer including the staircase up to our room. We can’t speak highly enough of the assistance that Brian [...]

It was an early start today and boy did I feel it. At one stage I was taking hits in the car but at least Dale wasn’t. I didn’t sleep very well cos it was quite noisy where we were staying. We were in the corner room in Dubbo at a major [...]

Today has been a strange one for me (Dale) and I’m not sure how to describe it other than a “Bitter / Sweet” one. Since Peter Brock’s death last year and our plan to do this whole trip, I had to include a stop at Bathurst and Mount Panorama in the program.  For me [...]

Hi all.
No photos again today.
We had another sleep in today. It is going to be so hard to go back to work.
We didn’t do too much today. A nice relaxing day. Dale stayed at home and watched his V8’s and Robyn and I went shopping.
It was a good day though.
Tomorrow we are [...]

It was a cold old morning today when we eventually got up. We had a lovely sleep in at Rob and Sue’s and when we got up there was a big frost. The car was all iced up again.
Sydney is only about 3 hours driving time. Earlier this year Dale had seen [...]

The children still had school today so we were all up bright and early. It was a very cold morning and the car was all iced over. After about 20 minutes with the engine running and the heater on we could see through the windscreen again. I had arranged to meet an [...]

We didn’t get a sleep in this morning. Check out was 10am so we had to get up at 8.30. We’ve bought a few things over the last couple of days so we had to re pack the car. This took us a little while but we eventually get it done. [...]