Road Trip. Volume 1

G'day everybody,

I speak to you from the passenger seat of Gracie B (our Ford Falcon estate, 4.0 litre!), Claire's driving, the music's playing, the windows are wound down and the sun has well and truly got his hat on! It suddenly all seems worth while! But let me rewind a bit.......

We picked up Gracie B yesterday at around 2pm, we were pleased as they threw in , a 25 litre esky (cool box) and a gas stove, we were looking at buying them anyway! We left Sydney straight away over the Harbour bridge, I (Ben) drove and Claire pointed out the signs and guided us out of the city like a pro co-pilot! We didn't know how far we were going to drive, we were just driving. It took an hour or so to get out onto the open road, the radio was on and "On The Road To No Where" came on, we turned it up and with smiles on our faces it all seemed too perfect!

We got to a town called Newcastle, we called into the local superrmarket and picked up a few essentials. We planned to drive for another couple of hours but as the sun started to go down we caught sight of a camp sight and decided to call it a night. We were in Raymond Terrace, no, we hadn't heard of it either! The camp site was pretty basic but did the job, well, nearly! We'd planned to have pasta and meatballs for tea but the camp BBQ needed a key, and you can only get it before 5pm, at 7pm this wasn't funny. Not only that, we had no gas for our stove either! We didn't eat. Though we did have a nice cold Toohey's Extra Dry, mmmmm beer, it was so good!

We woke this morning in the tent, hungry but refreshed. We packed up and hit the road again, Claire driving this time. We are now heading for Coffs Harbour, a nice sea side down with plenty of beaches. We're not far off now, taken about 5 hours but it's been fun.

Well, that's us upto date I think? Oh, we've got this little laptop that we're writing this from and it's crap! really crap! we can't load any photos from it to the blog. When we get a chance we go to an internet cafe and upload pictures to the blog from there so it's worth scrolling down to see the old blog posts as we will be adding pictures to them when we get a chance.

Ok, hope everyones good, feel free to leave comments or say hello via this blog, just click the "Comment" bit underneath.

Take care, Ben, Claire and Gracie B x x x