The Stevenson family ready to start their big adventure around Australia.
Laura and Will giving a last hurrah before we drive off.
On Tuesday the 17th February, 2009 we finally departed on our big adventure. After more than a year of planning, organising, saving and building, we were finally ready to kiss all the family and buckle up our seatbelts. We only got a few hours down the road when we got a phone call to say there were problems with a water pipe at the house we're renting in Colac. The shed was flooded!! We were not going back, let me tell you, so luckily Chris' dad took care of it for us. Thanks Don!
We stayed our first night at a truck stop about an hour out of Gundagai. We were parked on such an awful lean I thought one of the kids might roll out of their bunks, but luckily no one did. I had to keep my hand on the frypan while I cooked tea to stop it slipping off the hot plate! We were so tired we all went to bed early to the sound of trucks roaring by and woke early the next day.
We had a short days drive (with a little stop to see the "dog on the tucker box") and got to Yass by lunch time. Did you know that the dog apparently did a POOP on the tucker box! What an educational experience this has been already!
Nice little caraven park in Yass so we stayed there for 3 nights. Learnt that there were floods in Grafton (where we had planned our first working stop) so no hurry to be off.
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