Not long now, 'til our trip is over, however there is still a little way to go.
After leaving Tambo we headed south through Augathella and onto Morven where we had morning tea of beautiful scones, jam & cream with our coffee, in the newsagent, come cafe, come gift shop!! Both Augathella and Morven are both little 'whistle stop' towns, and it is a case if you blink you will miss it.
From there it was onto Roma, and oh my goodness, what a state this part of the Landsborough Highway is in - if you had had a smoothie for breakfast, it would well and truely be a curdled milkshake by the time we got Augathella. To be honest it was not that much better once we had turned onto the Warrego Highway at Morven and heading for Roma. This is where we did a final bit of shopping before having an easy afternoon. We continually heard the rattle of the cattle trucks/road trains coming through the town on their way to the sale yards for the cattle sales the following morning. It is believed that these are the biggest sale yards in the Southern Hemisphere. After all the trucks and road trains we have heard of late, the noise didn't bother us at all.
Our pace seemed to slow down a tad, and we had a reasonably good trip into Oakey via Miles and Dalby. Decided that as the distances weren't overly long, we would stop at Dalby (when we refuelled the car) to have a bite of lunch ourselves at the big new shiny Service Centre that had only been open 7 weeks. One could say that all we wanted to do was get home, however, the milage is too long to do in one hit, so it is off to Oakey where we stayed the night is a lovely little park with lots of grass - yes!! Something to sink our toes into after all the red dust etc that we have encountered along the way. Pete says the showers were about the best he had had anywhere on the trip.
Sadly my photos from Oakey are no where to be found!
Our last day ..... heading towards Toowoomba first, then down the reasonably new 2nd Toowoomba Range crossing which is such a breeze of a run now. We stopped off at Gatton for our last morning tea on the road for this trip, and as the journey for today was under 250 kms it gave us time to head home at a reasonable pace, and yep ..... start unpacking the car and van.
It has been a long and tiring trip, but a most enjoyable one, and we saw places, things and events that we never had envisaged we would ever see, so yes, it makes it all worthwhile. Here is a map with our trip on it, but sadly no lines across the bottom of the map (the way we were supposed to come home). We covered in excess of 18,500 kms all up from start to finish.
Trust you have enjoyed joining us on our adventure - now it is time to do some chores around home, washing, lawn mowing etc.
Hope you will join us on another adventure 'on the road' sometime in the future.
'Til then,
June
I haven’t been on the bypass apart from a small section of it but my husband got onto it by mistake when coming home once and had to pay the toll later on. LOL! It certainly has made the city quieter without all the trucks travelling along James Street on the way to Oakey, etc. Glad you had such a great but tiring trip.
ReplyDeleteI’ve thoroughly enjoyed tagging along on your trip. It’s a pity you didn’t make it across the bottom, but that gives you a good excuse to head off again in the future. Enjoy being at home for a while.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful trip you had with your friends. I also enjoyed travelling along with you too. You certainly travelled a huge distance.
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