Day 1
Saturday, 1:20am. It’s cold, I’m tired, but there’s an excitement in the air that propels me forward to the sweet warm water of the shower. It’s time to go on that four week holiday I’ve been waiting for, trudging through my final examinations to get to.
I was first up for driving, so we all piled into the car at approximately 2am and I set off down the driveway as we all said a quick goodbye to the house; we will return in about a month.
Straight onto the highway we went, headed southbound onto the gateway motorway through the city and over the toll bridge. The majority of the drive was general chit chat between the three, then the two of us; Mum fell asleep after about an hour and a half.
The temperature was interesting to keep track of; it started at 9 degrees and then slowly rose as we went more towards the city, up to 12 degrees. Once we passed the outskirts of western Brisbane the temperature dropped again back off to 9 degrees. The lowest it got down to was 6 degrees, out near Toowoomba.
As I write this, the sun is peeking out from behind the blanket of cloud cover that has hung over us all morning, and now it’s gone again. It is nice to see and feel the sun’s warming rays of goodness! Though it is still only 10 degrees…
Another news flash: The town we are in is called “Muckadilla”, complete with Muckadilla creek. We just passed through it and in the time it has taken for me to type those words we are completely through that town and back to the 110km/h zone of the Landsborough Highway headed towards Longreach.
Lots of great flat scenery, numerous shades of green and a long, straight, unending stretch of black rocks. All in all; the trip so far is going very well.
I’ll post again soon,
Trav.
