24th Nov - Canberra

Officially we started this trip 1 week ago today and to date we have covered more than 3800kms. We felt tied this morning, these long trips with little rest on arrival are catching up with us, however we were up early once again, had some breakfast and made some small changes to the camper following the storm to try and correct some of the damage before hitting the road for Canberra. As we passed through Gundagai we headed for the lookout and then dog on the tucker box just off the Hume Hwy. To set the scene, we’d been having fun finding our way around ... most of the time ... and sometimes ...when things aren’t going to plan it can be an interesting conversation. Once we arrived at the dog we looked at each other and said ‘Is that it?, it looked so much bigger in the flyer!! Have you ever read the poem?, the kids enjoyed the words http://www.thedogonthetuckerbox.com/poemsfolk_songs

Crossing the border into Canberra the Welcome sign was difficult to find amongst the others. We decided to head straight for the Visitors Centre and found there was a lack of accommodation in town due to the ‘Spilt Milk Festival’ and some bike racing over the weekend. The girl at the info centre rang around and found us a spot at the Showgrounds, same place we stayed at in 2011. We are staying across the opposite side of the grounds with all the other caravaners, far away from the 900 Uni Students in tents...it is crazy! By the time we were setup and settled in we asked the boys what they wanted to do with half the day remaining..... so it was off to the Royal Mint and then Mum’s choice the Telstra tower to check out the view. We headed out to dinner for more entertainment ... now this came in the way of parking in the undercover car park, which had a maximum height limit of 1.95mt. Somehow we managed to clip the sign on the way in (due to the lack of drinks in the car fridge) so called the guy on the intercom and he had to come and escort us so we didn’t damage the sensors along the roof. We managed to park right near the exit avoiding all low hanging structures and headed to the huge shopping centre (overwhelming after a trip across the Nullarbor). To just highlight how ‘fantastic’... not.... our navigation skills were, we found ourselves travelling the wrong way up the travelator.......clowns!







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