Cargo to Home

Sunday was a beautiful day.  It was cold and clear as we prepared to leave the farm in Cargo.  A beautiful area of rolling green hills.

Orange is higher and therefore usually colder, however we were just driving through this time.  There are some lovely older homes in the centre of town, and also plenty of modern homes in outer subdivisions.  A growing city.  We stopped at the rest area on the east side of Bathurst, after searching for a parking spot near the town park and not being able to park with a caravan in tow.  (It's often hard to find a convenient place to park in some of these towns)  We usually look forward to our cup of coffee (or tea) at this stage.  What a disappointment when we found the water luke warm.  We usually fill the thermos in the morning before leaving.  This time the water obviously had not reached boiling when I filled the thermos.  Luke warm coffee.

As we came through these places it's noticeable that the traffic also increases the nearer we get to Sydney.  It was a diversion to take a few minutes to drive out to Mount York when we were driving through Mt Victoria.  We checked out all the monuments and history of the crossing of the Blue Mountains and the first roads across to the west.

View West from Mt York

Monument to First Explorers Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth

It was lunch time as we arrived in Katoomba, so parked a block or so away and went to a coffee shop for lunch in Katoomba Street the centre of town.  So we were soon on our way down towards the city.  We diverted and went via the grandchildren and B and R in the inner west for a couple of hours before heading to the north of the city to home. 

It's good to be here with the garden growing well (some things too well) with all it's spring flowers at their peak - rododendrums, azalias, clivias, wisteria, may bush and much more.  Through the trees we can see the towering house next door which is being built, and is very big!  So we must adjust and get used to it.

The caravan is parked at the front door again, and contents of that scattered on the front porch, waiting to be cleaned.  There is much to do, we collected lots of dust.  The car, the van, will need washing, and the annex which we used in Kununurra has gathered a lot of red dust and should also be cleaned.  There is a large pile of ironing waiting.  It really should be done.  That is something that I don't do when we travel.  Crushed clothes rule when travelling.  The lawn has been mowed.

We've appreciated the fact that Jac has stayed in our home while we've been away, as that has helped it to be looked after and occupied.

The blog will take a rest for a while.  No doubt we'll be travelling somewhere again soon!