7 - 24 Dec 2020 Today we said goodbye to our little unit in Rainbow Beach, sold, new owners get access to it today. We are positive and it is time to chase some waterfalls and make some plans on life's direction. Must admit, we wrongly self imposed the want for a...
16 Sept 2020 After a great nights sleep we departed Cornish Creek north east from Muttaburra. We decided to have a look at Forest Den National Park and really found nothing to report. So next stop for the day was Moorinya National Park - Old Sheep Station with a...
3 Sept 2020 One of the states we have not really given the time it deserves is Queensland. With the borders firmly shut to NSW and NT, what better time to right this oversight than to take a trip. So with not idea of where we are heading or for how long its time to...
April - May 2020 We have been so very worried about our friends Neil and Connie. They have been in Australia since we saw them in Thailand and now with more and more airlines cancelling flights around the world they have been forced to finish their holiday here early...
19 March 2020 - Good Bye Mum Sadly today my mum died. Thankfully not from Covid-19 and not in a way she had not wished for. She lived a full and happy life, in her own home and died peacefully in her favourite chair, 89 years old. In someways it was good she didn't...
23-02-2020 - Week 1 Around Chiang Mai With Neil and Connie headed for Australia, we now planned 3 weeks to recover from 6 weeks of driving around Thailand by just soaking up Chiang Mai. One of the markets we generally stay away from was the Sunday Night walking...
18-02-2020 - Nong Khai to Loei Today the plan was to travel along the Mekong River to Chiang Khan before heading south to Loei. There is plenty to see along this route, but we made sure we stopped at Wat Pha Tak Suea where there is a small glass walkway on a lookout...
16-02-2020 - Visit to Wat Pa Phu Kon Today we wanted to revisit some of the sites that we visited 27 Jan 2019. https://www.4wdaus.com/steve-alison-head-east-2/. So the first stop was the historical park of Sala Keoku. Although this is a dual pricing attraction, 40...
13-02-2020 - Around Nong Han Lake The course for today was to move from the claustrophobic @Sakon Hotel that had no windows in any of the rooms to The Room Boutique Hotel. Once bitten with a highly rated hotel, we were very choosy about the room. Luckily we didn't...
09-02-2020 - West to Phitsanulok Alison behind the wheel today, so watch out thailand. Last nights accomodation included breakfast which was a simple rice meal. Tasty! Heading of from Uttaradit our first stop was Wat Khon Ruea, a older temple with huge standing...
06-02-2020 - Back With Neil and Connie Today we headed off to see the start of the Chiang Mai flower festival setup and then on to Siri Wattana markets. In no time it was lunch time so we found a great local lunch at the markets before heading back to the hotel to...
02-02-2020 - Nan and back to Chiang Mai Although we were staying in Nan today, we had to move hotels due to availability. So we started exploring about 11am. After a few temples we decided Tesco lotus was our lunch stop. After lunch we headed off to the hotel for an...