The bus is a bit sluggish so Jim decided to have a break and a check around before we head up the range and through Cunningham's Gap. Lucky he did as the trailer brakes were on. That fixed we head out through Warwick and spend our first night under the stars along the Cunningham Highway at place called Gore.
Next day out to Goondiwindi turn left and we are on the Newell Highway and into New South Wales. The next night is at a camp called Hickey Falls. Its a bit dry out here and the falls aren't running but there are some nice pools for Sammie to lay in.
Jim has some concerns about the power usage and some fuses that keep blowing so we spend the next day here with Jim up and down in and out of the bus checking and isolating circuits to try and work what is making them blow.
It is the trailer - the electric brakes this time! So after having to remove both wheels it looks like he has that problem fixed. The loo is not flushing either so he sets about fixing that also. He spends some time checking the wiring to the new fridge and seems to have that working well now.
Off we go further down through NSW we have some time so we head into Stuart Town where Jim's dad was born. Interesting story about the name of the town and its history. It was named Ironbarks, made famous by the Banjo Patterson poem "The man from Ironbarks" - Ironbarks and its community had such a bad reputation that a judge decided the only thing that would save the town was a new name and he called it Stuart Town after the then Governor of NSW I think.
Orange, Canowindra, Cowra, Young and Cootamundra fly by very nice country to drive in. Through Wagga Wagga and onto a little town called Culcairn for the night.
We head into Cooryong along the Murray Valley Way.
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