WHERE ARE YOU GOING FIRST?

Hi everyone,

We have been asked so many times - where are you heading first? - what's your plans?

And to be honest I have only ever had a very general view on which way we will travel - but it was never going to be what is called a LAP - more like the desire is to make it a SLOW MEANDER which will look like squiggles and loops.

I realised early on that there are seasons to consider and obviously there are peak times to see things that I don't want to avoid just because other people are there and it may be a little crowded. But cusps of seasons are good to consider. And there are also places I want to avoid when certain things are on.

An example was Woodgate over Easter - the camp ground was perfect - lots of room - only one noisy group and they were asked to leave I think - otherwise so quiet and peaceful with lots of space - but if you went in to township it was very busy and as we left on the Monday the Annual Easter Festival was in full swing - it was huge - and that my friends is where I leave - exit left - very quickly. Even though we missed a nonthrough road sign and Mick had to manoeuvre out of a cul-de-sac. Well done sweetie.

Lesson Learnt... we need to stop talking when navigating. LOL

My deepest desire is to travel with a very flexible plan - some plan is needed because I am working on the road as we travel but the flexibility to be able to come to someone's town if they invite me - or if we like a river bank and want to sit beside it for 3 days then travel only 70k up the road and find another place to stay for a few days - that's my goal - that's my dream.

So here goes - here are some set in stone plans for the coming few months with lots of flexible "I don't know what we are doing" moments - in between.

23rd May we leave our house and head to a week in BOREEN POINT - rest and more rest - planning on seeing a few live gigs at the Apollonian Pub on both Sundays - Asa Broomhall on the 24th and Olivia Ruth on the 31st. YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN US AT THE SHOWS. Free. 12 to 3pm

1st June to 4th June - BEENLEIGH Showgrounds - so we can catch up with family and friends.

5th to 7th June THORNESIDE - catching up for a few nights with an old school friend - you know you are getting old when you have to say we left school together 46 years ago. Sounds insane because it doesn't feel like that long.

Following week is a meander to BLACKWATER which is only 8 hours away but we will take 4 days. Visit my son and daughter in law in Blackwater for her birthday

Then of to CARNAVON GORGE - Mick wants to go back there to do a few walks again because they were so good but also to do the Bluff walk that we chickened out of last time - because its straight up - got to go back for the views and say we have done it.

Then a meander on back to LOWOOD - arrive and stay for a few days with Micks Mum and Dad to celebrate Mick turning 55 years old on the 22nd June.

Then a weeks meander to PROSERPINE for 4 nights from 1st July.

Then a stroll through July up the coast to PORT DOUGLAS where we have 8 nights booked (because you have to or you have no place to stay) - Mick has a very good friend that has moved there.

Then we will have another slow cruise around for 4 weeks and head to SAPPHIRE where we have booked a week to fossick with a few very good friends who will bring their van and stay with us for that week.

Then LONGREACH and WINTON for the remainder of September.

Early October we will head to YEPOON /EMU PARK and spend a few days at the beach with Lisa and Jade before doing whatever takes our fancy until we are back in Bauple for a week at the end of October ready for me to facilitate a live 4 day art therapy creativity retreat in Gympie for women on the first weekend of November.

After that we will head to RATHDOWNEY to visit Micks cousin and somehow end up in PERTH for the two weeks after Christmas with my daughter and granddaughters.

Then down the bottom of WA we will head for summer ☀️

So that's the general locked in plan. I am so excited that I am nearly busting. But Mick and I are so busy getting everything sorted and ready to leave that the time is flying by,Read more