Home Sweet Home

“Where we love is home, that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

                       (Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet,1809-1894)

Kiama Blowhole

Tuesday 2oth September.

John and I drove up the NSW south coast slowly, only driving about 100klms a day the last few days. On Tuesday night we were in Kiama, close to Woollongong, we have stayed there a few times before. In the caravan park, when we had the smaller motor home on our first trip away, we couldn’t get the power to work and had to ring the dealer to advice us. Of course it was something simple.

Kiama headland.

Coledale.

Sea Cliff Bridge

Kiama is famous for it’s blowhole, on Tuesday the sea was calm, so it wasn’t blowing very hard. We did a small grocery shop, John took a couple of photos as it was a lovely sunny day, then we settled into the caravan park. The park is right on the water, hardly had we booked in when a big squall come up and everyone was scurrying to put their annexes down. It passed fairly quickly, the sun came out again.

Wednesday 21^st September.

We drove back to Sydney via the coastal road, only 80 klms to John’s sister, who lives with her family in the southern suburbs. Coledale and the Sea Cliff Bridge were stops along the way for photo shoots. We wanted to ease into being in traffic again. John cleared out the storage area underneath when we arrived at his sister’s place, one less thing to do when we get home.

Chris and John.

We enjoyed a fun catch up that evening with Chris and Wayne, then had our last sleep in the motor home.

Thursday 22nd September

Of course we forgot about Sydney’s peak hour traffic, it took us double the time to get home about 10am. Two flat car batteries greeted us, a phone call to the road service got someone out within the hour. We needed the cars to unload clothes, food and equipment into the house from the top of our driveway, then for me to follow John up to where the motor home is kept. We will go back another day to clean.

We were very tired after unpacking but look forward to settling back to our normal routines after our great trip around Australia.
We were away for four months and travelled 18,000klms.

Thank you all for coming along with us!