I cant seem to get Willie Nelson's song "On the Road Again" out my head which is absolutely terrible as I don't like Willie Nelson.
We got away early with our sights firmly set on Cairns. Arrived about 5.30 pm after once again a noneventful drive. It took 1950 kms (plus all our NZ travel) for Lorraine to finally make a positve comment about my driving!!! Of course I had two aids to get me through the trip, GPS and LWE (Lorraine's Watchful Eye - it never left the road!!).
On the way we detoured off the main road and stopped for a couple of hours at Paronella Park. It was quite an amazing place. Very scenic with a castle, and some wonderful views. The place was built in the late 1800s, early 1900s and would have been a real marvel in its time. The site was voted as the Number 1 "Must See Places" in Queensland. It was really worth the stop and I took plenty of pictures which I will add to blog later.
Once we had settled and cooked tea we walked the 4 kms into town and went to the Night Markets. Not the biggest of markets but plenty to look at. To finish we decided each of us would have a $15.00 head, neck and shoulders massage. The two chinese who work on us were so concerned at the tightness of our shoulder sand neck muscles that they talked into putting these special pads on our back for 24 hours. This basically meant our $30.00 massage cost $100.00. But it was worth every cent as we are both feeling much better for it. I think after all those k's in the van's very upright seats had caused us to tighten up.
Tomorrow we are off on a train and gondella and will be catching up with Tarsh. Should be a great day.
We got away early with our sights firmly set on Cairns. Arrived about 5.30 pm after once again a noneventful drive. It took 1950 kms (plus all our NZ travel) for Lorraine to finally make a positve comment about my driving!!! Of course I had two aids to get me through the trip, GPS and LWE (Lorraine's Watchful Eye - it never left the road!!).
On the way we detoured off the main road and stopped for a couple of hours at Paronella Park. It was quite an amazing place. Very scenic with a castle, and some wonderful views. The place was built in the late 1800s, early 1900s and would have been a real marvel in its time. The site was voted as the Number 1 "Must See Places" in Queensland. It was really worth the stop and I took plenty of pictures which I will add to blog later.
Once we had settled and cooked tea we walked the 4 kms into town and went to the Night Markets. Not the biggest of markets but plenty to look at. To finish we decided each of us would have a $15.00 head, neck and shoulders massage. The two chinese who work on us were so concerned at the tightness of our shoulder sand neck muscles that they talked into putting these special pads on our back for 24 hours. This basically meant our $30.00 massage cost $100.00. But it was worth every cent as we are both feeling much better for it. I think after all those k's in the van's very upright seats had caused us to tighten up.
Tomorrow we are off on a train and gondella and will be catching up with Tarsh. Should be a great day.
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