Wednesday 17 April 2013

Road Trip to Maryborough Ulysses AGM

We left home on Saturday morning to travel to Maryborough in Queensland for the Ulysses AGM in glorious autumn weather, dodging the roos up our driveway on the way.    

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Our original plan was to leave on Thursday, but life got in the way. Instead of a leisurely trip up, visiting relatives along the way, we ended up having two days of riding straight here.

You can’t get much better than this scenery.

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We stumbled upon some craft and produce markets at the village of Rylstone, about an hour from home.  This was a great place to buy a scrummy savoury bread loaf for our lunch later in the day and some jam.

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Our route took us along our favourite road through the Bylong Valley, with its rugged scenery.

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The church in the village is rather pretty.

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Up over the windy hill.

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There was rain in the hills behind Tamworth and we were sure we would get wet, but we put our wet weather gear on, which meant we stayed dry and just sweltered.

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We called in briefly to the pretty village of Bendemeer, and another country church found its way into our photos.

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We knew we were entering the New England area once we started to see the most beautiful golden poplar trees.

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Our destination for the day was Guyra, where we stayed in the highest caravan park in Australia.  It was a balmy 5 degrees C when we got up on Sunday morning.  “Snubby” the silver sidecar and camper trailer travelled well.

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On Sunday  we continued to Ooh and Aah at the stunning coloured trees along the way.

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It was another wonderful day for riding.  I loved all the wispy, windswept clouds.

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I think this railway bridge has seen better days.

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You have to take a photo of the sign going over the border.

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The wide, open expanse of the Darling Downs near Toowoomba.

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Joh Bjelke Peterson Dam was looking lovely.

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Sunday saw us stay at the small town of Goomeri, where we camped in the showground.  Dinner was at the Shell roadhouse, as the pub closes at 5pm and there is no where else open.  It was quite social, with a few Ulyssians eating there as well as other campers.

We got an early start on Monday morning and arrived here at the Ulysses AGM site at 8.00am, ready to set up camp.

Now for a fun week.

Tuesday 16 April 2013

I’m Back

I’ve been absent for a couple of months, as firstly life was rather hectic and then we had a sad time with my uncle passing away. 

Hopefully, life will settle back to a bit of normality now.

We had planned to leave mid week last week to travel to Maryborough for the Ulysses AGM.  However, we ended up leaving on Saturday and arriving here yesterday.  We are looking forward to having a couple of weeks away. 

I’ll do a big catch up when we get home.