Some of our trips are particularly well thought out, with various preparation and forethought. Not this one! There's been a lot happening behind the scenes lately, so neither of us felt motivated for packing/organising. When Plan A failed (due to lack of site availability), we decided to "wing it".
Some family members weren't convinced Nick would cope with such a laissez faire approach!
We took one Engel with us, running as a fridge, with a few frozen meals stacked on the bottom. You might be able to spot an esky in the back of Elmer. We had a few frozen bits in there, to defrost en route (for a planned cheese platter on our first night).
I was up very early to do the last of the packing. I also put a large piece of corned beef in the thermal cooker, to cook as we traveled.
Our Gladstone bags and my beauty case sat on the back seat. Nick's guitar tucked in there also. (We fine-tuned the arrangement while "on tour").
On departure day we exited the driveway before 9:00am - and started heading is a West-ish direction.
I knew the corned beef wouldn't be ready by lunchtime, so we bought very nice hamburgers at Dalby and ate them in a little park just up the road. There was a big storm after that, which made for some short-lived excitement and we were glad when we passed out of it's range.
We reached Roma in the late afternoon and set up camp at the Roma Gun Club, next to a bottle tree. The bar opens for a couple of hours each afternoon and we sat on the verandah enjoying our bargain drinks before returning to the camper trailer.
Our camping chairs have arms, which aren't great for guitar playing but Nick found a stool in the back of Elmer and used that for a few songs. Later in the evening we enjoyed our cheese platter dinner under the stars. A great start to the adventure!
Day 1 = 455 kilometres.
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