Old fashion truck stops

Thanks Macca,
Just the sort of thing I was after, should be ready for a good break by then.

Yeah the feed was worth the slight detour, good spot.

Good tip, thanks Keith.
Good coffee is worth throwing out the anchor for. Best I have found so far is the bakery in Coober Peady, worth the drive in off the highway for, we cant drive past without going in.

Well worth the stop Keith, good feed too, appriciate the tip.

Thats very much on the cards now, overnighting in Echuca and Narrandera is a good lunch break distance about half way.
Never driven this area before.
Appriciate your suggestions.

There is also a no cost camping area in Narrandera just before the river heading south on the left hand side if you choose to stop overnight in Narrandera. It is called Brewery Flat Reserve. We have used it often.

Macca.

Thanks but not camping this trip.

Well popped in this morning, freezing cold.
I agree it is definatly not as good as the Gilgandra one, infact it isnt as good as any I have ever been to, pretty poor in all respects. Wont go into details, they might have just been having a bad day.
You did warn me.

Stopped in there for lunch a few days ago but they werent doing meals, strange seeing it was school holidays.

G'day Gronk,

Your link doesn't work.Check out McLaren3030's reply on this thread.

I'll fix yours for you now.

Cheers

I’m on an iPad…has worked every other time…..long press on the website address, copy the URL, then go to this post and paste !!
And it’s usually highlighted as well ?
Don’t know what went wrong…or is it this site ?

Hi Gronk,

Did you re post the link, because it is working now.

Macca.

Hi Gronk,

The issue is the link was long. Short links usually paste in and work ok on EO, but long links often don't.

Here's your link as you posted it:

https://www.bp.com/en_au/australia/home/products-services/service-stations/truck-stops.html

You can see that only part of it is underlined. That indicates the link is kaput. Yes, it's the way this site processes big links. It's usually much better to use the Link button.

Cheers

Why don't posters learn to use the Line insertion tab? Just pasting a large URL into a message frequently fails, just like Gronks one did. Another failure with the lazy posters is they do not preview their post before they use the Submit tab to submit their post. Please use the Preview tab and check the quality of your submission before you finally submit it, we may be able to fathom your messages if you switch your spell checker on as well.

OK, I’ll bite…..where is the line insertion tab?
How does the preview tab check the quality of your post ? I just used it and the post looks exactly like it does here ??
So, what is the criteria for a long URL ? How many letters is too long ?

I don't know anything about a "line insertion tab" but I do know that this forum has a Link button that does the job.

Gronk,
Followup 4 suggests it might be 14 characters.Well, it was on Friday, Jul 01, 2022 at 07:15.

I've seen longer ones work and shorter that didn't.

As to why, you'll have to ask the author of this site's software.

Cheers

"where is the line insertion tab?"

Sorry that typo, it should have been "Link" tab. Frank P has started a new thread Using the LINK button to include a web address (URL) in a post. If you go to that thread there is a good explanation of how to correctly insert a link.

"How does the preview tab check the quality of your post ?"

If you had used the "Preview tab" instead of the Submit tab and posted your message without previewing it, you would have noticed the broken link. That is why it is there, to see how your message appears before you posted it. Even if you had not previewed your message before posting it, you should have been able to read it after you posted it. You then should have used the "Edit" tab and corrected your link.

The preview function is particularly handy with long posts. You often cannot see what you typed in its entirety, when you do use it you will find that the quality of your postings will improve.

If I don’t know what a “broken” link looks like I wouldn’t have picked it up ?

Will have to put that in the maybe next time basket, once we leave Canberra I think we will have had enough cold for one trip. Havent planned our stops for the trip home yet but if it isnt raining would like to stick to the coast