12th, Dec, To Infinity and beyond.... Rochedale South

Yeaaa......, after sticking up notes all over the place, the keys have turned up, seems like they were left on the hook on the back of the toilet door, not saying which gender co's Lin'll hit me.

The next sits a meagre hundred k away and should take no time at all. The weather looks like it really don't know what to do with itself and we're getting more wind than a double dose of baked beans, this makes wrapping up the tent up a bit of a challenge. All packed away by nine thirty and we don't have to be there till four, so we've got a bit of time to kill. The bike gets parked up outside the camp and we head for brekky and a wander, ended up having brekky in the sun and the wander in the rain, looks like the start of one of them days.

Its one thirty, time to start heading over. The ride should take no longer than an hour and half so we should be there with time to spare. The suns out and trying its best to fry me head in me helmet (and doing quite well at it), and as we hit the motorway, the bikes purring like a kitten, then the heavens open, Oh, whoopee bleedin do. We pull up under a bridge and drag out the wets from under everything in the trailer and set off once more. Within thirty seconds, the sun's beaming down yet again. I really wish this weather would make up its sodding mind co's now the sweat is running from under me helmet and it ain't stopping till it reaches me trainers, hitting all points south on the way. I'm just thinking "I'll take the bloody jacket off at the first stop we come to, when all of a sudden....... traffic and its backed up for fuc*ing miles. Now this jam is one of those that don't quite stop, just keeps moving at less than walking pace, in fact one old lady poked me with her walking stick, co's I wouldn't move up. Two an a half frigging hours we were stuck for and only went twenty five k (about fifteen miles). By the time we got moving again, me legs felt like I'd walked it (and most of it I had). First stop, service station, not co's we needed juice, I needed to get this bloody coat off, I would have been dryer if I left it off and just  let the rain do its stuff. Coffee, cool off and a quick call to let the people know we're running late and we're off again.

Lin does her magic (had to be a first time) and within ninety minutes, we're pulling up on the drive. Really nice house, really nice people (Brett & Janelle with baby Jade) and a really fuc*ing great dog (Kira). We're made very welcome, shown round the house and they gave us a wicked tea. The dogs got a bit of arthritis but is still full of life, very playful and wanted to play fetch with me arm. This promises to be a very nice sit...

On our way and actually moving...

The sundeck....

 The pool...

And the man and his dog....  this is Kira....she's as a dane/lab cross and very long and tall... she's also very lovely...

and this is our car (Ute) for the next few weeks...very nice...and flippin big.

So camping done, journey through hours of traffic done... new home lovely, dog lovely, pool lovely.. people lovely, and fabbie tea...so all is very very good xxx

Hi kids... love you lots, miss you loads.. wish you were here  xxxx be good and take care...xx