The Long Drive Dalby With the Morgans

March16

Ken and I drove to Dalby and booked in at a caravan park as the Morgan club are having a weekend away in Dalby all very convenient. Happy Hour at the Motel then on to the RSL club for a meal. The food in the RSL club was not up to scratch although we all enjoyed our selves.The music was good and jolly.

Dinner at the RSL 

Mar 17 Saturday 

Off we all went on our run heading for the Bell an old railway station. 

The back of the train shed 

Out side the Bell Hotel and Pub

We passed an RAF Bomber and stopes at a cotton field for a short talk by Kerry a cotton grower him self.

 RAF Bomber

 A Cotton Field

Then on to John and Jeanette's home for an excellent lunch 100 times better than last nights RSL club dinner. They are farmers with a massive collection of all sorts of  fabulous tractors most of them are in show room condition and more to the point they all start up and run. I would say John started up at least 10 tractors with all different ways of starting some had to have a blow lamp to heat them up, I hit a cartridge with a hammer to fire it up  another way of getting the old things going although that way was quite a performance, gosh I had so much fun it was fabulous. Another way was to take the steering wheel off and use that as a starting handle quite amazing I could see John the owner was like a school boy opening his Christmas presents and I wasn't far behind.

Back to the Motel for Happy Hour just to round the day off in stead of the RSL we ordered pizzas and again I believe every one had a great time. The evening went on quite late.

Happy Hour running in to the night.

Mar 18 Sunday

I woke up early and found my Generator had been stolen the thief cut the rope and managed to brake the chain locked to the wheel a walk to the Police station to report the incident they came down to investigate and were extremely helpful. 

I walked back to the Hotel for our Sunday run and I was not in a very good frame of mind.

Roger let me drive his +8 all day which made me rather happy and forgot my misfortune. Roger’s +8 is not only immaculate in side and underneath, it drives like no other Morgan I have driven no rattles smooth as silk. I only had one little gripe the dash was too low at the point where the gear lever was my hand was too big.

 We drove around getting a little lost, we stopped at a beautifully kept house more like a mansion 

Then on to Bunya Mountains were we had lunch the food was fine but the service was rather topsy turvey. The drive was good and we saw some spectacular scenery although no time to stop and take many photo.

Bunya Mountains

Bunya Mountains

Back to the Motel for a well earned drink and to round the day off we went out for a meal I had a fantastic day and was well and truly looked after by Roger, Richard and Julie Rogers  lovely Sister. 

Mar 19

I spent the day trying to get my computer in working order. I waited for the Telstra shop to open at 9pm because I knew it had something to do with the Mobile Broadband. The woman gave me an appointment at 10.30pm She looked at my Apple Mac for roughly five minutes I did say to her how can I find out how much credit I have on my prepaid broadband and said I do not know about Apple Mac and sent me to Nix Fix it took him an hour to find that out from Telstra he reinstalled my unit and checked my Mac out and charged me $50 for the time he was trying to fix the problem two hours it took him and he got frustrated with Telstra I was pleased at what he had done and the price was good.

By this time it was late so I had to book in for another night at Dalby caravan park I got a reduction from $25 to $20 with electric 

Mar 20

I complained to Telstra I got $50 credited to my phone not that I will use it before I leave for England they were good and that was the best they could do as they were unable to reimburse me still that was better than nothing. 

I posted my lost Generator on the Solos network and I got an immediate response Solos is a good network of single travellers connected with the CMCA that try to help out if we can.

I have filled in my claim form and will hope for the best. 

I drove off to Kingsthorpe where a few motor homes are parked up for free on a hobby farm but have to pay for the electric. I will be able to leave my deck chairs out all night without the fear of them being taken by an unknown thief. I am in a very good spot.

On the way to Kingsthorpe

David Park 

David Park my night stop