Final Wrap Up of the Road Trip

Final Wrap Up of the Road Trip

For the next week, we are staying at the Mantra as previously mentioned. So I will split the holiday up as two trips.This post will be the final numbers. Facts and FiguresFrom the time we left home until arriving here in Brisbane we have.. Been away for 16 nights...

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Day 17: Jan 5th Toowoomba to Brisbane.

Day 17: Jan 5th Toowoomba to Brisbane.

This was the last day of our "RoadTrip" The next week we have booked a room at Mantra. This will not be as much of a "budget break" 🙂 we love eating out at good restaurants, so the Entertainment Book will be used as much a possible 🙂 The package I booked is Room and...

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Day 16: Jan 4th  Moree to Toowoomba.

Day 16: Jan 4th Moree to Toowoomba.

This drive would be another long-ish one at 350kms. We know by looking at the map, there is not a lot of towns along this route, but there is always something interesting to see. As we had the hotplates, were able to cook ourselves eggs for breakfast.  Not...

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Day 15: Jan 3rd Dubbo to Moree

Day 15: Jan 3rd Dubbo to Moree

This drive was one of our longer days at around 340kms, but we were not in any hurry. The plan was to take our time and stop at a couple of towns along the way before reaching Moree for our check in at the EconoLodge Motel at 2:00pm This is the only motel I had booked...

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Day 14: Jan 2nd  Dubbo

Day 14: Jan 2nd Dubbo

We awoke in our Zoofari Tent after a very comfortable nights sleep. Although yesterday was so hot, we went to bed with the air conditioner on full at 18 degrees and the fan on full speed just to get to sleep, at some time through the night we pulled the doona up as...

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Day 13: Jan 1st Kandos to Dubbo

Day 13: Jan 1st Kandos to Dubbo

We had a relaxing night watching TV and I wrote my blog post. I also Googled a bit about the history of Kandos. It had proven to be a larger town than we had expected, so we figured there must have been something happening in the past. We were correct, it turns out...

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Day 12: Dec 31st  Blue Mountains to Kandos

Day 12: Dec 31st Blue Mountains to Kandos

We awoke to a rare phenomenon for this trip…BLUE SKY… We could only hope that the firies were getting some reprieve. We only had a fairly short drive today, so we took the advantage of a slow start, and, with clear skies, we took advantage and headed back up to the...

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Day 11: Dec 30th Blue Mountains

Day 11: Dec 30th Blue Mountains

Today we travelled around on the Hop-on-Hop-off bus. It was another very hot day, with temperatures of 37 degrees forecast, so we made the choice to basically stay in air conditioning as much as possible.We walked down through the little village of Leura browsing the...

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Day 8: Dec 27th Canberra.

Day 8: Dec 27th Canberra.

We spent some time last night organising a loose itinerary for today. Originally we thought we may use public transport to look around, as we had noticed that parking in the city was $3.00 per hour, however on a closer look at the bus website, we found that there was...

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Day 7: Dec 26th Wollongong to Canberra.

Day 7: Dec 26th Wollongong to Canberra.

After a busy Christmas Day, we had an early night and a good sleep in. We packed up, had breakfast and left Wollongong on our way to Canberra where we will stay two nights. Rather than going straight down the highway, we wanted to look at a motel in the town near...

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Day 6: Dec 25th : Wollongong

Day 6: Dec 25th : Wollongong

Merry Christmas. Today is Christmas Day with family. Our "big" little boy is 3 and is SOOO excited that Santa is coming 🙂 We had breakfast at our AirBnB before heading to see the family and swap presents. We then made our way to an extended family Christmas Day. It...

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Day 4: Monday Dec 23rd Pokolbin

Day 4: Monday Dec 23rd Pokolbin

We got up this morning to hear the quacking of ducks at our front door 🙂 A couple of crusts were made into "duck breakfast" We had decided to do something a little different today and do a half day winery tour... By Horse and Carriage !!! I made the booking online...

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Day 1 Friday Dec 20  Dicky Beach – Warwick

Day 1 Friday Dec 20 Dicky Beach – Warwick

Holidays!! After a busy year, were both ready for this break. We packed our bags the night before (the Engel fridge had been on for a day to chill down well)  and were ready to go after breakfast. A quick stop to fill up the fuel tank and we were off to Warwick....

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Christmas “Roadtrip” 2019 – 2020

Christmas “Roadtrip” 2019 – 2020

!! Updated to include costs !!Scroll to the bottom of this post This year we are road tripping through QLD/NSW country. We are travelling down to see family outside of family Wollongong for Christmas Day, And to avoid the coastal crowds, where accommodation costs...

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