Western Downs

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Our next Travel Day was through to Chinchilla, and we were pretty excited to be going to see one of our Sons, as we hadn’t managed to catch up for about 2 years!

Break-time

Along the way, we stopped off in Miles to give the dogs a break, and to make ourselves a cuppa.

The rest area we stopped at was huuuuge, and had some lovely grassed areas, and there was a lovely little bridge going across the creek so you could walk in to town without going out onto the highway.

We found out by chance (ok, we found out from a poster on the wall in the rest-stop loo!) that the music we were hearing was coming from the last few hours of the “Back to the Bush” Festival that had been on for the last four days.

Looked and sounded like it would have been a fun event!

Family Time

We all piled back into Henry, and headed onward to see our second eldest Son, his lovely Wife and their two small children.

We had been invited to park the bus at their place for the evening and to have dinner with the Fam, before heading off the next day, and were very much looking forward to it.

It was a lovely afternoon and evening of catching up, chatting, and spending some quality time together, while also getting to interact with the grandbabies as they swam, danced, rode scooters and bikes and showed us about the place.

The next morning we had said our goodbyes to everyone, before they had to leave for work, school and such, and were feeling loved-up with a very thoughtful travel-package of fresh cup-cakes and a delicious almond/coconut/chocolate slice.
(spoiler alert – they were bloody delicious!)

Salvation

We were lucky enough to have a friend of our Son – who is an auto electrician – travel to come and have a look at Henrys innards after everyone went off to their various responsibilities; as there was still the very concerning ongoing issues with the batteries and the charging, which we hadn’t yet been able to resolve.

We’d got our bed all pulled out earlier, the base dismantled, and the storage hatches emptied so that he had a mostly unimpeded area to work in, but it’s still a very tight area.

It wasn’t long after arriving that he started to find what the myriad of problems were, and was great in showing us where the issues lay, why they were issues, and how he was going to go about fixing them, and what we could do if the same sort of thing happened again.

It was incredibly encouraging, and comforting to feel like we finally had someone we could trust in our corner, who was willing to take the time to trouble-shoot, find the issues, and then go about fixing them all; and all whist also involving us into the process too.

Testing testing

Once he felt it was all sorted, we all discussed us going and staying another night off-grid out at the Weir (we’d been invited to stay at the Ski Club if we wanted to) so that we could test that the system was not only draining the batteries properly, but also that the dcdc charger was working, and that solar input was working as well.

If for some reason it wasn’t, we were close enough to call back through in the morning for him to have another look.
Excellent plan – agreed!

After our hero-in-hard-yakka left, we put Henry back together, remade our bed, stowed everything back where it should be, and then headed off to the Weir.

Until next time – happy travels, and make the moments matter.

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