ABFC Muster Day 1

I had a lazy start to the day.  I normally walk Louis before 6.00am  but today after breakfast I loaded my last personal items in the car and was on my way at 8.00am.  I have set up my Tablet to play audio books to me through my car radio. I  download the books from a web  site called Librivox who are attempting to read as many of the  books in the public domain as they can.  I started with a book read by Lucy Anne Walden who I use to proof listen for some years ago and actually spoke a few parts in some Shakespeare play she produced at the time.  The book is Colonel Quaritch, QC.by H. Rider Haggard which I expected to be an adventure story  like King Solomon's Mines but to my surprise it is a Victorian romance!  It is beautifully read by Lucy so I continued to listen.

I had decided to have a break after the first hour for a coffee but the Service Area along the motorway was blocked off by police and fire service personnel.  I assume that there had been some petrol emergency.  I  normally go past the Brisbane Airport but today was going through the city which I haven't done for ten years.   To my surprise I  entered a series of tunnels and followed the directions to Ipswich  which  meant I completely bypassed  the city and ended up on the Ipswich Motorway which has no  service areas.  It was after 10.00am when i finally got my coffee.  By now I was sucked in by my Victorian romance.   My stop just south of Ipswich was on the New England Highway which Margaret and I drove into Queensland back in 1998 when we moved from South Australia. I drove on to Warwick where we had stopped and back then it had been an Australian town of the 1950s now, while it maintains its old areas, it has a modern shopping mall.  I walked around the town for and hour before driving in to Stanthorpe   where I arrived at just before 2.00pm after a leisurely 350Km drive.  I took a cabin at a caravan park just on the edge of town and spent a couple of hours exploring the town.

In the evening I went to the Stanthorpe RSL Club for dinner where I had an enormous T bone steak before returning back to my cabin for an early night.