We originally gave ourselves a week to finalise packing, from Nick's first day of annual leave to 1 September - due to my expected work commitments. When my shifts dwindled, departure was optimistically brought forward to Nick's second day of annual leave (after my skin cancer excision stitches were removed).
There were several revised departure times but we finally left on the morning of his 4th leave day - still several days earlier than our initial plan.
We left home at 9:55am and once underway, we both felt a bit stunned that our biggest road-trip ever was actually happening!
Our first travel day was easy. There was a lovely walk along Bracker Creek at Warwick, a later lunch at Stanthorpe before checking in to the same caravan park we visited in January. Bandit and Nick stayed at camp while I did some grocery shopping in town for some dinner ingredients. (Mr Dog was very excited to be on holidays and particularly pleased to have so many bunnies to watch)!
Our first night highlighted some packing issues. It had been 30-something degrees at home, so several bedding layers were deemed unnecessary - which was a rash decision!
Fortunately, we did have one sleeping bag and there was a Kmart hub in the town, so we acquired a summer-weight doona before leaving (along with a few extra utensils, a better dog lead and some insect repellent)!
Day 1, Home to Stanthorpe - 231km
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