The Van Park lifestyle

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Wednesday was sleep in day for me - I am usually tired after a traveling/towing day.  First to the post office to collect the mail, then the visitors centre to get a map and ask a few questions, and a drive around town to see the Big Cod and the humungous Burke and Wills Tree - reputedly planted by them as they passed this way.  It is a giant Morton Bay Fig - even the power lines have been routed around the tree on to the other side of the road, and the branches reach more than half way across the road which is the main Swan Hill city centre bypass on the Murray Valley Highway.  It is metres in diameter in the trunk.  They will have to make some decisions soon about what they will do about it, because either the tree or the road will have to have alterations.
 
Shopping day at the supermarket was completed, and we returned to the van.  It was a beautiful sunny day, and we were able to get out the table and chairs and eat lunch outside.  Whilst we were sitting there, we got chatting to a couple from Ararat who are in a van a few down from ours.  They had just arrived from Mildura, and said they had booked in here for 2 weeks, but were likely to extend for another 2 weeks.  Not sure what they do for a month!!  One of the nice things about caravan travel is the people you meet in the parks - sometimes have a happy hour where folk gather and chat over a drink about 5pm, but at this time of year, there is not a lot of that happening, because it is too cold to sit outside.
 
During our entire trip, we have only met and chatted with 4 or 5 other couples.  In some parks where there are a lot of washing machines, you get to talk to other women in the laundry, and Ted tells me they chat whilst shaving in the men's loo.  But in the last 4 parks, we have had an ensuite shower and toilet site, so that avenue is taken away.  But in the middle of the night, you are only too thankful you don't have to make your way half-way across the van park to the amenities block, like we had to do in the rain in Narrandera.
 
Last night it was roast night, and we had a very nice piece of boned leg of lamb!!  We even fitted in a game of Tri-onimos.
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