A Cracking Day

A day of disaster, started off well with the car already linked from yesterday as we had a drive through site so we were on the road early.  Ross drove the first 100 km, petrol stop in Coonabarabran and I took over the driving.  The new car is travelling well, we only had a 300km day and we had the Moree Artesian Spas to look forward to! Half way between Coonabarabran and Narrabri we heard an almighty bang and then everything started to move sideways!  We had blown a tyre on the van!  I was able to manoeuvre the van off the highway and avoid the rumbling big road trains!  Lucky for mobile phones, Ross rang the RACV and they had the NRMA out to us within the hour.  Meanwhile, we enjoyed a lovely picnic on the highway with the road trains to contend with.  However, we must say that we felt quite safe as they all took a wide birth from the car and van so we could enjoy our picnic without fear.  Bonnie discovered a delicious charred kangaroo leg in the forest that she insisted dragging us back to!  After only and hour and half we were back on the road after receiving a joyful text from Ben asking how we were travelling and he suggested we were having a cracker of a holiday!

We headed on to Narrabri and found a tyre repair shop with a very helpful man and a whole crew of men ready to replace all tyres on the van as they were over 11 years old.  What fabulous service, all with a smile and we were back on the road within the hour.  The car and van feel different, everything seems to running much smoother!  At this stage I had rang the caravan park in Moree to book in as it was getting late in the day.  Arrived at Moree, a long queue outside the caravan park, it was so lucky that I had booked.  Directed to our site, not a a drive-thru, my poor darling has lost his backing confidence and so out popped Russell, a little dwarf like man with a big cheery smile offered to back the van in for us.  Within a few minutes we were nicely tucked in and after meeting his delightful dwarf like wife, Dulcie we were looking forward to relaxing and hitting the spa.  I opened up the van, things were not quite right!  There was a real mess on the floor, rather strange as we have brought along our little Dyson and I had vacuumed before we left Gilgandra.  Looking around at the side of the van we discovered the tyre had not only blown from the outside, it had blown inside the van and wiped out a draw!  In that draw we kept our tinned foods!  All you could see was a huge hole, open air, a mess of rubber and peaches and total chaos!  Another hour cleaning up, some major work to be done tomorrow and we finally got to have a quick float around in the spa, another thank you to Aunty Doreen for a delcious dinner and early to bed.