After what seemed to be an eternity, we were finally able to hitch the caravan and have a weekend escape. However there were dramas before we left and whilst we were at Moorook.

Another late posting of a trip Diane had to Mt Gambier in September 2007 with one of her friends.

I know its a little late to be posting details of Diane’s trip to Darwin in June nearly at the end of October. Initially, I thought I’d leave details of any trips made without the caravan of this website, but having had second thoughts, I will now include trips made without the caravan.

The following article was sourced from news.com.au and details Tom Harding’s tips for a top van trip. I believe the original article was in the Herald Sun.

Last weekend we decided to go for a day trip to Walker Flat, a popular spot on the Murray River in South Australia. Whilst there we took some photos.

We decided that our next trip would be to the South Australian Heritage town of Burra, situated 154 kilometres north of Adelaide, and 186 kilometres west of our home town. We departed on Thursday, 16 November 2006 and returned Sunday, 19 November 2006. This is our travel diary of the trip.

This weekend (16 & 17 September, 2006) we went for a quick trip over to Mildura. We stayed at the Calder Caravan Park. On Saturday afternoon we took the 70 kilometre 4WD self-drive tour around the Mungo National Park. The Mungo NP is approximately 110 kilometres from Mildura.

Unfortunately our caravan won’t be ready to collect from Dave Benson Caravans until next weekend (22 July 2006). We were hoping to “break” it in by taking an extended long weekend trip to Warrnambool and then along the Great Ocean Road on to Melbourne. We had already arranged for a few days Annual Leave and [...]

We are planning our trip from Adelaide, through Central Australia (Uluru & Alice Springs), on to the Top End (Darwin), back down to Katherine, and then across to the Kimberleys (Kununurra) and then back home. UPDATE (21 April 2007): We have now had to postpone this trip indefinitely due to a serious illness within our family. [...]