By the numbers
4493 kms driving
Around 592kms today
1 GPS sending us in random directions
The day started after a little bit of a sleep in and the pub wasn’t actually noisy even with it closing at 1am. I did not hear anything at all throughout the night. It was either quiet or there were not many people downstairs. The coffee the pub supplied for guests was Robert Timms and I am guessing this is the good stuff and better than the international roast. We had breakfast before we decided it was time to go. The car had been left outside of the pub on the main street and it didn’t have any issues.
The first stop was just up the road to see some silo art at Yelarbon. The town looks like it has seen better days, but it seems to have a little bit of charm there. We stopped for a look and a photo before heading off to Inglewood, where we would head to Texas on the Queensland side of the border. There was something we both had not seen in Texas and that was the Texas Rabbit Works museum. It was something interesting and we stopped there for a little while to have a look. The Rabbit works closed in 1992 and is now a museum. You could wander around an look at how the rabbits were caught, processed and stored before being sent away for canning. There were videos on the rabbit too that included the diseases and baits to get rid of them. There was also something about the Akubra hats using rabbit as well.
After the museum we were heading for Tenterfield though the GPs was set at a small step and it had decided to send us away from the intended destination and take a long route on back roads. We had to discontinue the GPS guidance as it was taking us somewhere, but not the direct route. We followed the Bruxner Highway all the way into Tenterfield and we were wanting to stop for a bite, and there looked to be nothing open. We did get some rain along the drive and some parts had a bit of rain when you look at the road. The road got twisty and turny after we had left Tenterfield and headed down the range. Things became alright once we went through Drake Village.
It was late afternoon by the time we reached Casino where we stopped for something to eat at KFC before heading through Lismore. By the time we made it through Lismore and headed for the highway it was starting to get dark. We had not intended in travelling this late in the day and thought we would have been home hours ago. Two stops had changed that and blown everything out. I figured we had been on the road for something like 8 hours including stops. Still doing something like 4,493kms on a trip is a pretty good effort.
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