Hey I'm Home

Well what a weekend, I travelled 3561km in 5 days and had 2 job interviews.

I left at about 3:30am on Saturday courteousy of a prank call :((

I headed for St. George via Cessnock, Singleton, Willow Tree, Gunnadah, Narrabri, Moree, Mungindi, Nindigully.
The trip out of Sydney was uneventful due to the hour of the day and Cessnock was still in snooze mood when I passed through.

A large "coffee to go" in Singleton and I was headed for the open roads to QLD.

The area south of the border had had recent rain which had allowed the previously constant mobs of cattle on the stock route to be near on extinct. The last trip that way I came across a mob about every 50 - 100km but this trip there was only 1 mob north on Moree.
It was raining from Singelton through to Moree which was a bit annoying as people don't drive with their lights on. I ended up tucked behind a Heavy Vehicle Tow truck from Gunnadah through to outside the airport in Moree. Where he found his tow and locked the brakes up to turn around, which was quite interesting at the time as I was watching a plane land LOL

I rolled into St George just after lunch to Mums suprise as I had told her I'd be there by 7pm :)

Overnight Roma (200km to the north) had 100mm of rain, which was their biggest rain fall in 3 years. This made me re think my route to Calliope as I had intended to go some black soil roads instead of black top :)

A detour of about 200km was needed but not without some highlights. I left St George and headed to Surat, from Surat I took the Surat-Yuleba road, this road has been slowly upgraded from a gaot track to some goat trak right through to 2 lane tar. This route was advised as wet and possibly impassable to small cars. It was definately wet (100mm of rain does that) and I ended up neededing 4WD High Range to get through the majority of the dirt section. I emerged from the road at Yuleba with a Triton covered in thick black mud which had a sort of clean windscreen LOL
I then took the Jackson-Wandoan raod that is now a sealed road. I had been told that there was some culverts that marked very late as I found out. They were very steep and narrow especially at warp speed.
From Wandoan it was balck top all the way to Gladestone, via Taroom, Theredore, Banana, Calliope then Gladestone.
I stayed in a cheap motel in Gladestone Sunday night and organised a late check out for Monday (the interview was at 3pm).
The romm was average but the view was sensational. You could see from the Aluninium Smelter in South Gladstone all the way through to the Marina.

I spent Monday morning house hunting the area and had a couple of inspections of potential ones.

The job interview went well and they are now finalising a package to give me by the end of the week for consideration.

By chance I had called Roma to see if they wanted me to have an interview for a job they had advertised and recieved a "I'll get back to you at 7"
I never heard from them but took a chance and drove to Roma Tuesday morning and fronted them. After waiting half an hour I had an inpromptu interview and was offered the job.

I now need to decide which one to take now LOL

From Roma I headed to St George once again. Dad had gone to Charleville for the day and he recieved a phone call from the Water Board saying that they were filling the local weir. Which resulted in me moving his water pump from the river for him.

I left St George at 3:30am this morning and went via Tamworth to see the rellies for a while. I didn't see John T though.

I got home in Sydney at about 6pm and am considering going to Coffs Harbour next week as an overnight run.

Did I say that I love driving LOL

Cheers Kev