Dog on the Tuckerbox

Monday, 23rd September

We are definitely not used to (or like) these 0 degree starts to the day!  Fortunately, it did warm up to a very pleasant, cloudless day of 24 degrees.

Somehow, we seemed to be ready much earlier this morning – perhaps we moved quicker because of the temperature – and we hitched up and on the road at 8.00 am.  We had travelled about 75 kms when Himself started thinking (always a good sign) about why he could see down the side of the caravan as good as usual.  Then he realised that the towing mirrors were still in the back of the vehicle!  A quick stop at the next rest area suddenly became a necessity.

The drive today was very pleasant, in fact, it has been really nice countryside all the way south from Tweed Heads.  Today, we travelled through green rolling hills, pastoral countryside (mainly sheep, with some cattle) and a few canola paddocks just coming into flower.  Although serious weeds, the cape week and Paterson’s curse also looked very pretty.  The Hume Highway is now a double lane dual highway all the way between Sydney and Melbourne, which makes driving so much easier.  We had a break at Gundagai, with a photo opportunity (along with 3,219 others) at the Dog on the Tuckerbox.

We have now crossed the border into Victoria and will stay at the Borderland Caravan Park in Wodonga for the next two nights.  This is a very nice park, not busy but quite close to the Hume Highway.