By the numbers
244kms from Miles
2 hours 28 drive
10.71 km walking
13.900 steps
It has started to get chilly as we head towards the coast even though I thought we had crossed the Great Dividing Range, we just hadn’t gotten even close to doing that just yet. That is on the trip home as we head to the coast. It did rain overnight, but it was dry the next day so that was actually a good thing as we don’t need wet roads. We had to get fuel before we left Miles and I washed the windscreen again as it had gotten dirty.
We had a pretty straight forward drive ahead of us as we headed towards Moonie and down to Goondiwindi. Phone service cut out as we were going along and the GPS was behaving for the time being. We passed through the town of The Gums and the rest area sign was saying the servo was open between 7am and 7pm. I had not seen a time on those signs before and I thought it was unusual. There was a sign I had missed which said ‘Are we there yet?’, but I was hoping for more like it and they had vanished as they had started. I was just happy to sit there and try to take photos as we went as there were interesting things to look at.
It didn’t seem to take that long to get to Goondiwindi, and we headed into the information centre to find out more about the area and the roads we would be taking to get home The Information centre was also the library and there was a display about a local race horse that had a bit of a personality. The horse was called Gunsynd and there were bits about the life of the horse including about the last race it was in as well. It seemed to be one well respected animal at the time who thrived on the attention from the punters. There was also a song about the Goondiwindi Grey. Around the same area there seemed to be a rodeo or something like it hall of fame, but I didn’t look much into that one. We ended up with the maps we were after, and there was a sculpture festival that we had seen something about that we wanted to go see. When we found it we went looking around and then a family with obnoxious teen brats started throwing rocks at some of the metal sculptures. They wonder why others don’t like them these days. Still that didn’t stay for long, maybe they had hear what I was saying or maybe not.
Afterwards we went to get a bite to eat and then we were able to check into the pub we are staying in. I later found a nearby motel that had vacancy so we probably didn’t need to be staying above the pub. Our door is the keypad and not an actual key. At least we could sort out the bill and go from there. Once checked in I went for a walk along the Levee bank and to see what I could find in town I felt good going for a nice wander as I do need the walk. I found a memorial to the horse, and there seems to be quite a few things in town named after Gunsynd including a motel. It was a good walk for a couple of hours before I returned to the room and get some food. I think I like going for afternoon walks at some of the places we stayed at overnight as you see something.
Tomorrow is the last leg of the journey and on the way home we will hopefully see some silo art along the way. We are going to head towards Texas and out through Tenterfield, although hopefully that will happen and we don’t get sent in strange directions by the GPS. The end of a trip will be interesting and to get back into the swing of things once we are back at home.
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